Shigeru Ban : complete works 1985-2010 /
Philip Jodido.
- 464 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), plans ; 40 cm
Tazawako House -- Wall-less House -- Hanegi Forest -- Nine-square Grid House -- Paper Dome -- Ivy Structure 1 -- Paper emergency shelters for the UNHCR -- Nemunoki Children's Art Museum -- Ivy Structure 2 -- Japan Pavilion -- GC Osaka Building -- Naked House -- Imai Hospital Daycare Center -- Picture Window House -- Bamboo Furniture House -- Atsushi Imai Memorial Gymnasium -- Paper Art Museum -- Glass Shutter House -- Shutter House for a photographer -- GC Nagoya Building -- Nomadic Paper Dome -- Paper Temporary Studio -- Center D'interpretation du Canal de Bourgone, Boathouse and Institute -- Mul(ti)houses -- Atelier for a glass artist -- Dormitory H -- Seikei University Library -- Maison E -- Post-tsunami rehabilitation houses -- Sagaponac House -- Papertainer Museum -- Nomadic Museum -- Takatori Church -- Artek Pavilion -- Nicolas G. Hayek Center -- Paper Bridge -- Hualin Temporary Elementary School -- Haesley Nine Bridges Golf Clubhouse -- Metal Shutter Houses -- Centre Pompidou-Metz.
"This is the definitive 'Paper Architect'. Every building ever realized by the renowned Japanese master. Shigeru Ban (b. Tokyo, 1957) attended SciArc in California and earned his degree at the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York. Based in Tokyo and Paris, Ban consistently challenges accepted notions of architecture, designing a house without walls, or an exhibition space made from paper tubes and shipping containers. As one of his most important buildings nears completion - the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern France - this monograph, compiled with the architect's collaboration, traces his career and features every built work of Shigeru Ban, showing clearly why he is one of the world's most innovative and significant architects. Unlike many of his peers, Ban can create remarkable residences and still find time to design emergency relief housing for disaster areas from Kobe to New Orleans. Often using paper or cardboard tubes as a structural element, his designs give new meaning to the term 'Paper Architect'."--Publisher's website.