Shigeru Ban   Japan   On a site adjacent to the the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, completed by Yoshio Taniguchi in 1995, stands this new institution for the city in Aichi Prefecture, a work of the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. The Toyota City Museum, built parallel to

Shigeru Ban   France   A large glass spheroid goes up at the end of Seguin Island, by the River Seine, marking a new cultural landmark west of the metropolitan area of Paris. These grounds, birthplace of the automobile industry in France, are transformed into the flagship

Shigeru Ban   Switzerland   On a site measuring 1,000 square meters, beside the Sihl Canal in Zurich, rises this seven-story block that is meant to be the seat of a local enterprise offering multimedia services and built with a single wooden structure that is the largest of its

Shigeru Ban   United States   Hermético desde la distancia pero translúcido en la cercanía, el edificio abriga bajo una envolvente tejida de madera seis galerías expositivas y un jardín de esculturas.

Shigeru Ban   South Korea   Under the structure formed by 21 tree-like timber columns, the new building at the Haesley Nine Bridges Country Club – in the South Korean city of Yeoju – serves an 18-hole golf course. The program is divided into two formally and materially differen

Shigeru Ban   France   A large tent-like structure shapes the new outpost of the Centre Pompidou in Metz, 300 kilometers from Paris in the northeast of France. A series of stacked volumes accommodates the museum program under this enclosure. This duality between regular an

Shigeru Ban   Philippines   This is the temporary shelter built in Cebu, Philippines, following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan (locally called Yolanda) in November of 2013. This project is the fourth version of a system of temporary shelters, first developed after the 1995 K

Shigeru Ban   Japan   Built with shipping containers, this community was created to address the shortage of housing after the earthquake of 2011 in Onagawa, in Miyagi Prefecture. Unlike the usual emergency units, which need a lot of flat land for construction, this projec

Shigeru Ban   Japan   After a natural disaster, and until temporary housing is built, those affected take shelter in public buildings or large facilities like sports centers. To address the problems of lack of privacy and overcrowding that emerge in these situations, the

Shigeru Ban   China   The Hualin Temporary Elementary School in the Chinese city of Chengdu replaces the old building that was torn down by the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008. The structure, made of paper tubes, was assembled by thirty architecture students of Keio Univer

Shigeru Ban   Sri Lanka   The earthquake of 26 December 2004 caused a catastrophic tsunami that took the life of 38,000 people in Sri Lanka. One of the devastated areas was Kirinda, a small community of Islamic fishermen located in the southern coast of the country. The recon

Shigeru Ban   Japan   Introspectively laid out around a central courtyard, Sengokubara House is built on a site surrounded by vegetation in Hakone, a city located some one hundred kilometers southwest of Tokyo. The continuous roof, which covers the whole house with a sing

Shigeru Ban   Sri Lanka   Located on a hilltop site facing the ocean, south of Sri Lanka, the floors, walls and ceilings of this house frame three different views. The first is the view of the ocean from the jungle in the valley, framed perpendicularly by the external corrido

Shigeru Ban   Japan   Arranged on an orthogonal grid, Maison E takes up a large plot in a residential area outside Iwaki, in Japan. Since there are no distinctive urban references and there is a lot of space, the house is organized introspectively around courtyards. The f

Shigeru Ban   United States   Located in the eastern end of Long Island, in the state of New York, this house is in a forty-hectare residential community (Houses at Sagaponac), promoted by The Brown Companies together with Richard Meier to build thirty-two houses designed by prom

Shigeru Ban   Japan   Located by a river and surrounded by fields peppered with greenhouses, the Naked House addresses the client’s request for “a house that give us all the freedom to carry out individual activities in a shared atmosphere, within a united family.” The ho

Shigeru Ban   Japan   Yaku island, off the southwest coast of Japan, was listed as a heritage site in 1993 because of its value as a biosphere reserve. It is particularly important for its virgin jungle filled mainly with Japanese cedar (sugi), one of the world’s oldest t

Shigeru Ban   New Zealand   Levantada tras un terremoto, la iglesia está construida con 86 tubos de cartón envainados en vigas de madera y 8 contenedores de transporte colocados en la base a modo de estribos. 

Shigeru Ban   France   Placed on the terrace of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, this pavilion was designed as Shigeru Ban’s temporary office during the construction of the museum’s new branch in Metz. After winning the competition, the administration accepted the architect’s

Shigeru Ban   United States   Made of shipping containers and paper tubes, the Nomadic Museum takes the concept of itinerant exhibition to the limit, because not only the works are moved from place to place, but also the building. In the year 2000, the Canadian photographer Grego

Shigeru Ban Voluntary Architects' Network   Philippines   This temporary shelter for the victims of typhoon Haiyan incorporates the Paper Partition System technology, developed by the office and applied in evacuation centers, with the aim of shortening and simplifying the construction process...

Shigeru Ban   France   In January 2003, the Pompidou Center and the City of Metz announced the decision, in agreement with the French Ministry for the Arts, Culture and Communications, to set up the first decentralized branch of the Centre National d’Art et de Culture Geor

United States   En el extremo oriental de Long Island y a pocos kilómetros del océano Atlántico, se ha emprendido la construcción de una colonia de casas de playa orientadas a las clases más pudientes de Manhattan. Treinta y siete arquitectos de prestigio compiten p

In its architecture section, Japan’s Praemium Imperiale has this year gone to a native, Shigeru Ban, who is thus again acclaimed for a firm social commitment, as when he won the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord in 2022, and for the material inn

The Japanese Imperial Family and the Japan Art Association have announced the winners of the 35th Praemium Imperiale, an accolade given annually in five categories. This year the awards – each coming with a prize of 95,000 euros – go to the French ar

Toilets are a symbol of Japan's world-renowned hospitality culture. With the Tokyo Toilet Project, public toilets have been redesigned in 17 locations throughout Shibuya with the help of 16 creators invited from around the world created by such world

Nippon.com   Hashino Yukinori   Since 2020, the Tokyo Toilet Project has drawn attention with its designer restrooms in Shibuya created by such world-renowned figures as Ban Shigeru, Kuma Kengo, and Andō Tadao. In May, the buzz spread abroad with acclaimed German director Wim Wende

Shigeru Ban The list of architects with the Princess of Asturias Award was not short, but in the 2022 edition Shigeru Ban joined Niemeyer, Oíza, Calatrava, Foster, Moneo, and Gehry, although not in the category of ‘Arts’ but for ‘Concord.’ As the fou

We have quite frequently seen an architect being handed by the Prince – or Princess – of Asturias one of the accolades named in their honor. In the wake of Niemeyer, Oíza, Calatrava, Foster, Moneo, and Gehry, this October comes the turn of Tokyo-born

The New York Times   Nikil Saval   Writing about Shigeru Ban is unlike writing about nearly any other living architect, in the sense that most of his important work cannot be seen or experienced in person. This is not to say that it is hidden or out of the way. He has, like many archi

World Architects   Shigeru Ban's design of the 420-acre campus for the owners of Kentucky Owl Burboun near Louisville, Kentucky, is anchored by three timber pyramids that will house the distillery. Shigeru Ban Architects will be designing much more than just the three

The general media keeps saying that La Seine Musicale is the new architectural symbol of Paris, but it’s really no big deal. The French capital, quintessential city of architectural symbols, inaugurated Frank Gehry’s Fondation Louis Vuitton two years

Riichi Miyake   Shigeru Ban is an architect of unique character; a soldier whose great resolve continues to tackle today’s world issues. Over the past quarter of a century he has brought architecture closer to human beings, by challenging the ‘supremacy’ of the arch

Shigeru Ban   Rugby was my life in high school. I dreamed of studying architecture and at the same time playing with the rugby team of Waseda University. When I learned that the entrance exam included drawing tests, I signed up at a painter’s workshop so that I co

Luis Fernández-Galiano   I met Shigeru Ban at the best place and the best time. The Alvar Aalto Symposium was held in August of 2000 in Jyväskylä under the motto ‘architecture in the year zero,’ and if in my lecture I defended a return to order disapproving the catastrophic

Shigeru Ban The announcement of the Pritzker Prize concession to Shigeru Ban (Tokyo, 1957) took place a few days before the commemoration of the genocide in Rwanda, a quite meaningful coincidence, because it was precisely in 1994 that Ban stepped int

Shigeru Ban (Tokyo, 1957) has been building cardboard castles for two decades. His winning the Pritzker Prize just days before the commemoration of the Rwanda genocide seemed like a significant coincidence because it was precisely in the year 1994 th

The studio of the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban recently presented a unique cardboard pavilion during a lecture given at IE University in Madrid. Now the firm is about to complete the Tamedia Office Building in Zurich: a four-story, environmentally-

En la turística isla surcoreana de Jeoju, Shigeru Ban y Kyeong Sik Yoon han construido el club social del campo de golf Haesley Nine Bridges de 16.000 metros cuadrados (véase Arquitectura Viva 137). El programa se divide en dos ámbitos formal y mater

Pablo del Ser   La editorial Taschen nos tiene acostumbrados a libros de dimensiones descomunales, más aptos para el deleite con sus enormes fotografías y el estudio de sus planos en una mesa de trabajo que para su lectura pausada, algo para lo que, por otro lado, n

Pablo del Ser   Tras la II Guerra Mundial se produjo un cambio drástico en la forma de vida de los japoneses. El tránsito de una sociedad todavía ampliamente agraria a otra industrial y de servicios provocó la disgregación de la familia tradicional, así como importa

Anatxu Zabalbeascoa   De construir viviendas de emergencia para refugiados, con tubos de cartón en Ruanda, al actual despegue internacional, con edificios en Estados Unidos, India, Francia y China, el japonés Shigeru Ban (1957) ha protagonizado una de las trayectorias más

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The Hannover Expo combines national identities and architectural manifestos in pavilions which take pride in their own distinctive form.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Houses continue to be an architectural laboratory and an indicator of social mutations; several of the most influential are put on exhibit at the MoMA.

Philip Jodidio   Complete Works (1985-2010)

Mathilda McQuaid   New York  2003  
Phaidon   - 240 Pages