Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-08-05 ) 5 August 1957 (age 68) , Tokyo , Japan
- Alma mater
- Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
- Occupation
- Architect
- Spouse
- Masako Ban
- Awards
- Pritzker Prize (2014)
- Buildings
- Centre Pompidou-Metz , France Cardboard Cathedral , Christchurch , New Zealand Aspen Art Museum , U.S.
- Website
- www .shigerubanarchitects .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Tokyo
- Occupation
- restorer
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Notable work
- Cardboard Cathedral
- Official website
- www.shigerubanarchitects.com
- Image
- Shigeru Ban.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Shigeru Ban
- name in native language
- 坂 茂
- date of birth
- 1957-08-05
- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- has works in the collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- affiliation string
- Shigeru Ban Architects
- name in kana
- ばん しげる
via Wikidata · CC0
~13 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Takatori Catholic Church is a temporary church building erected in Kobe after the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995. It was donated (deconstructed and moved) to Taiwan in 2005. Japanese pavilion at the Expo 2000, Hannover (2000) Ban designed the Nomadic Museum with engineer Buro Happold, a temporary structure composed of 156 shipping containers (2006)
Shigeru Ban (坂 茂, Ban Shigeru; born 5 August 1957) is a Japanese architect, known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. Many of his notable designs are structures which are temporary, prefabricated, or incorporate inexpensive and unconventional materials in innovative ways. He was profiled by Time magazine in their projection of 21st-century innovators in the field of architecture and design.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shigeru Ban” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.