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Shigeru Ban
"The architect Shigeru Ban is best known in his native Japan for his evocative Curtain Wall House. This monograph presents details of 30 distinctive projects, including his paper tube houses, Hanegi Forest, and the Walls-less House."--BOOK JACKET.
- GenresArchitecture
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Published December 30, 1999
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August 31, 2012
Mr. Shigeru Ban can easily be one of my favorite architects of all time. Perhaps sometimes I do not agree with the designs of his buildings, for example, those huge open spaces that apparently seem to have no privacy. He went to one of the universities I admire, Cooper Union, and has a good design philosophy. His philosophy consist on improving people's life, he thinks architecture has a social role, which in fact, it does.
His paper architecture is very creative, efficient, beautiful, and ecological. Furniture as space dividers and configurations is also a good idea, I especially enjoyed his furniture houses. Soo many cabinets, closets, and bookcases. It is my type of heaven. His use of material and structure is remarkable. Supporting a roof with ivy screen, wow, Ban does know his structural system very well!
Perhaps the most interesting piece I saw from the entire book was his Library of a Poet (which basically is structurally made up of paper tubes and lined with bookcases extending the length from floor to ceiling serving like walls. And the other one is his paper arch which was covering the sculpture garden at the MOMA in the year 2000. He used brackets to secure the tubes to the museum wall and an intricate (yet beautiful, crisscrossing of paper tubes). As explained in my Architecture History class, it has the three main components of good architecture: Function, Aesthetic, and Structure.
And the most famous architecture work by this man is the Curtain-wall house. A literal curtain, at least three story high, serves as a wall for two cardinal points.
I would recommend this book for all architecture students. Plus, the illustrations are exquisite!
His paper architecture is very creative, efficient, beautiful, and ecological. Furniture as space dividers and configurations is also a good idea, I especially enjoyed his furniture houses. Soo many cabinets, closets, and bookcases. It is my type of heaven. His use of material and structure is remarkable. Supporting a roof with ivy screen, wow, Ban does know his structural system very well!
Perhaps the most interesting piece I saw from the entire book was his Library of a Poet (which basically is structurally made up of paper tubes and lined with bookcases extending the length from floor to ceiling serving like walls. And the other one is his paper arch which was covering the sculpture garden at the MOMA in the year 2000. He used brackets to secure the tubes to the museum wall and an intricate (yet beautiful, crisscrossing of paper tubes). As explained in my Architecture History class, it has the three main components of good architecture: Function, Aesthetic, and Structure.
And the most famous architecture work by this man is the Curtain-wall house. A literal curtain, at least three story high, serves as a wall for two cardinal points.
I would recommend this book for all architecture students. Plus, the illustrations are exquisite!
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