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#Shigeru Ban
#Shigeru Ban
Mount Fuji World Heritage Center (2017), Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai. All images courtesy of TASCHEN, shared with permission
A list of today’s most influential architects wouldn’t be complete without Shigeru Ban, whose exceptional projects range from religious centers and corporate campuses to museums and disaster-relief shelters around the globe. The designer’s oeuvre is unmistakably modern while drawing on timeless Japanese framing traditions. His innovative use of timber and paper results in technologically advanced forms, elaborate yet elegant latticework, harmonious curves, and a perceptive use of light.
Next month, TASCHEN is set to release Shigeru Ban. Complete Works 1985–Today, a monograph that traces the designer’s most influential works throughout the past four decades. In the publisher’s “XXL” format, experience Ban’s sweeping Japan Pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany, a colorful, translucent public restroom in Tokyo that turns opaque when in use, and a vaulted cathedral ceiling made of cardboard in New Zealand, among myriad other projects.
Shigeru Ban is written by by Philip Jodidio, who has authored more than 150 books about architecture the world over. A series of 200 limited-edition copies come with a three-dimensional, laser-cut wooden cover and include a signed print of a sketch by Ban. Preorder on TASCHEN’s website.
Haesley Hamlet (2020), Gyeonggi, South Korea. Photo by texture on texture
Japan Pavilion (2000), Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai
Nomadic Museum, Pier 54, New York, United States (2005); Santa Monica, California, United States (2006); Tokyo, Japan (2007). Photo by Michael Moran
Simose (2023), Otake, Hiroshima, Japan. Photo © TASCHEN
Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010), Metz, France. Photo by Didier Boy de la Tour
Cardboard Cathedral (2013), Christchurch, New Zealand. Photo by Steven Goodenough
Kur Park Nagayu (2019), Oita, Japan. Photo by Hiroyuki Hirai
Swatch/Omega Campus (2019), Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Photo courtesy of Swatch
La Seine Musicale (2017), Île Seguin, Boulogne-Billancourt, France. Photo by Didier Boy de la Tour
#architecture
#Shigeru Ban
#Shigeru Ban
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