Lecture: Architects Forum: Shigeru Ban

February 20, 2001

Lecture: Architects Forum: Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban (Architect; Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center)
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, 10017
6:30 PM
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Noted architect Shigeru Ban creates designs for residential and public buildings, museum exhibitions and temporary structures for refugees and survivors of natural disasters. His work relies upon the fusion of Eastern and Western aesthetics and an innovative use of recycled paper tubes is at its core. Mr. Ban began experimenting with paper tubes in the mid-1980s and used them in his architecture for the first time in 1989. His recent projects include the Japanese Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany, and a 30-foot-high lattice truss structure made out of recycled paper tubes above the outdoor sculpture garden of the Museum of Modern Art, his first U.S. project. Highly acclaimed for his humanitarian work, Mr. Ban has designed shelters of plastic sheeting and cardboard for Rwandan refugees, and minimalist dwellings of plastic beer crates and cardboard tubes for displaced survivors of the Kobe earthquake.
Mr. Ban is a Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a program supported by the United States-Japan Foundation.
Co-sponsored by Japan Society