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	Shigeru Ban - Jeff Werner
		Shigeru Ban presented an overview of his work to an auditorium of Canadian graduate, accomplished and student architects yesterday evening at the RAIC College of Fellows Convocation in Vancouver.
		Shigeru Ban - 2/5 House - Hyogo, Japan, 1995 – The floor plan is divided into five equal rectangles three of which are outdoor.
		Shigeru Ban – Japan Pavillion, Expo 2000, Hannover - Germany, 2000.
	jeffwerner.ca /2006/06/shigeru_ban.html (1247 words)

	Shigeru Ban: Using Paper To Build Buildings - MSN Lifestyle - The Wine Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shigeru Ban is an anomaly in the design world: an architect who, while widely recognized within his profession for the quality and inventiveness of his work — he has built buildings and furniture out of cardboard and paper — is completely uninterested in chasing broader celebrity.
		Ban was born in 1957 in Tokyo and moved briefly to the United States to study architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and at New York’s Cooper Union.
		In 1991, Ban designed a stunning library for a Japanese poet, a tall, freestanding structure in which the bookshelves themselves, made of tightly rolled tubes of cardboard, are the walls.
	lifestyle.msn.com /FoodandEntertaining/TheWineLife/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=687126 (928 words)

	Shigeru Ban (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ban discussed a number of his residential projects, in which his primary concerns are structural lightness and efficiency; spatial and visual transparency; and economical means of construction.
		Ban's 1993 House with Double Roof was planned for summer use, but because the site is in a region of heavy winter snowfall, it was a challenge to achieve an airy summer structure capable of withstanding snowloads.
		Ban retained his aesthetic commitment--in Kobe, he chose crates from the Kirin brewery over those of a rival, because their yellow color harmonized better with the brown of the tubes.
	www.archleague.org /lectures/strategies/bansummary.html (1793 words)

	Archilab 1999 english -
		At once an architect, designer, and scenographer, Shigeru Ban is developing an architectural style which tends to harmonise the various relationships found in each of his realisations, whether "architectonic", spatial, social or environmental.
		The Paper Tube Structure (P.T.S) Ñ those cardboard tubes used as structural supports Ñallow Shigeru Ban to be rid of structural constraints and tensions to the benefit of dynamic, flexible spaces.
		Ban's solution was to use a foundation of sand-filled beer cases, walls of paper tubes (diameter 108 mm, 4 mm thick), and the ceiling and roof of tent material.
	www.archilab.org /public/1999/artistes/shig01en.htm (1773 words)

	Innovators - Shigeru Ban
		Ban first began to use the tubes in the '80s, in exhibitions.
		Examine Shigeru Ban's original pencil sketches of his recent designs.
		Rollovers: Shigeru Ban by SHUZO OGUSHI/TIME, Greg Lynn by MOJGAN AZIMI/TIME
	www.time.com /time/innovators/design/profile_ban.html (422 words)

	Steve Rose meets architect Shigeru Ban \| \| Guardian Unlimited Arts
		The Pompidou Centre has allowed Ban to camp out on their roof because he is designing them a new outpost, a €35.5m (£24.12m) art gallery in the city of Metz, close to the German border - although they also stipulated that he donate the office structure to them when he leaves.
		Ban, in partnership with France's Jean de Gastines and Britain's Philip Gumuchdjian, beat some of Europe's top firms to the prestigious commission; his selection was a surprise to many.
		Ban's houses seem the perfect solution to cope with natural disasters, but due to constant personnel changes and an institutional incapacity for long-term planning, his work at the UN has lost momentum, he says.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,,1605007,00.html (1596 words)

	UVa School of Architecture \| Shigeru Ban to Receive Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture
		Ban was selected to receive the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture for his humanitarian efforts and his innovative use of building materials.
		Ban was the first person in the world to construct a building out of recycled paper with his “Community Dome,” a meeting place for victims of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
		Ban also brings a unique perspective to the exploration of low-cost, and sustainable and prefabricated elements, which are integral to the structure and design of his buildings.
	www.arch.virginia.edu /spotlight/medal (846 words)

	Bamboo Roof - Arts
		Ban had been experimenting with cardboard tubes ever since he used them as a low-cost alternative to wood in his 1986 design for an Alvar Aalto exhibition.
		Ban’s use of cardboard tubes was an ingenious and inexpensive solution because the materials often could be salvaged from industry.
		Shigeru Ban’s visit to the project and presentation of a lecture were the culmination of the installation.
	www.rice.edu /sallyport/2003/winter/arts/bambooroof.html (1033 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Shigeru Ban
		Ban’s style is not only innovative and modern in its design but also in its use of materials, clean, simple lines and geometric shapes, all of which allows for an intricate interplay between space and light.
		Although Ban is famous the world-over his pioneering structures like “Library of a Poet” (1991), which is made of cardboard columns, and the “Paper Arbor” (1989), which he designed for Japan’s Odawara Festival, he is also known for his humanitarian work.
		Ban’s lightweight, inexpensive and simple paper tube structures, dubbed “log cabins,” were used to create temporary housing in 1994 for Tutsi refugees from genocide in Rwanda and in 1995 for victims of the Kobe earthquake.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=270160 (641 words)

	Harvard Gazette: The power of paper (and cardboard, and plywood)
		Shigeru Ban has obviously asked himself that question and come up with answers that do not necessarily correspond to prevailing assumptions.
		Ban is also a leading member of Team Think, a group of architects whose design for a structure on the site of the World Trade Center (WTC) is now one of two finalists, the winner to be decided by the end of February.
		Although Ban has become an icon for advocates of "green" and "eco-friendly" architecture, MacDonald says that the real intention behind his work is slightly different.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/02.20/09-gsd.html (620 words)

	Shigeru Ban - By Matilda McQuaid :: books at arcspace.com
		Because of his radical approach to materials and social problems, combined with the drama and delicacy of his buildings, Ban is fast becoming one of the world's most influential architects.
		Ban's temporary structure "Paper Arch" was erected in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City during the summer of 2000.
		Ban was included in the 2000 and 2002 Venice Biennale and was a member of the Think team of architects selected in February 2003 as one of two finalist teams to compete for the commission to design the new World Trade Center site in New York.
	www.arcspace.com /books/ban/ban_book.html (545 words)

	Rice Gallery \| Bamboo Roof
		Ban’s use of bamboo flooring boards as the work’s primary component reflects the innovative use of alternative, environmentally-friendly materials for which he is known.
		Ban is well known for the temporary housing he created for the displaced population after the Kobe, Japan earthquake in 1995.
		Shigeru Ban lives and works in Tokyo where he teaches architecture at Keio University and is a principal of Shigeru Ban Architects.
	ricegallery.org /new/exhibition/bambooroof.html (642 words)

	Repeat Writings on Architecture and the World - Vehicular Visions
		Architect Shigeru Ban talks of his paper architecture and chairs a competition on taming the toxic by-products of our obsession with the automobile.
		Ban was recently in Chicago to chair the jury for the Stop Go, Chicago Portal Project competition, sponsored by the Chicago Architectural Club, Friends of Downtown, and the American Institute of Architects Chicago Design Committee.
		Ban left it to Chicago architectural icon Stanley Tigerman to announce the winners among the 12 finalists, and from his remarks it appeared that the jury was less interested in the problem of garage design itself than in the site's other possibilities.
	www.lynnbecker.com /repeat/bangarage/vehicle.htm (1820 words)

	Metropolis - Tokyo feature stories: Pulp Fiction
		The self-appointed paper architect of the '90s, Shigeru Ban is not exactly following in the footsteps of the late John Hejduk, the mythic dean of Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York and his mentor.
		Ban then investigated the substance he now calls "evolved wood" and found that not only could recycled cardboard be molded into load-bearing columns, bent into beautiful trusses and quickly assembled, but it could also be made waterproof and fire resistant.
		Ban used cardboard columns in a "Paper Arbor" he constructed for a 1989 regional expo in Nagoya, in the main hall for the Odawara Festival (1990) and as trusses in Library of a Poet (1991), a private residence.
	metropolis.co.jp /tokyofeaturestoriesarchive349/336/tokyofeaturestoriesinc.htm (1947 words)

	Shigeru Ban Architect Scale Retractable Ballpoint Pen
		The Scale Retractable Ballpoint Pen by Shigeru Ban is 6.5" in length, made of laser engraved aluminum and comes in a custom presentation case.
		Born in Tokyo in 1957, Japanese architect SHIGERU BAN studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Cooper Union School of Architecture, where he graduated in 1984.
		Ban's work is notable for linking natural and built environments and for its economic use of resources.
	maclinstudio.com /shbansreba.html (253 words)

	Shigeru Ban - Jean de Gastines & Philip Gumuchdjian - Centre Pompidou - Metz :: arcspace.com
		At a Press Conference on December 4, the project by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, in association with Jean de Gastines, Paris and Philip Gumuchdjian of London, was announced as the winning design in the International competition for the new Centre Pompidou - Metz, France.
		Shigeru Ban, joined forces with French architect Jean de Gastines and Philip Gumuchdjian of London, for the competition.
		Shigeru Ban is well-known in particular for the Museum of Paper in Shizuoka and for having been one of the unselected finalists in the 2002 competition for the new World Trade Center in New York.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/shigeru_ban/metz_index.htm (545 words)

	Satya April 05: Interview with Shigeru Ban
		Ban’s innovations and resourcefulness are also coupled with a sense of social responsibility and in 1995 he established the NGO Voluntary Architects’; Network (VAN).
		Ban, whose team was a finalist in the World Trade Center Ground Zero design competition, recently finished the Nomadic Museum on Pier 54 in Manhattan providing a unique space for photographer Gregory Colbert’s traveling Ashes and Snow exhibit.
		Shigeru Ban’s Nomadic Museum will be in New York until June 5, 2005; see www.ashesandsnow.org.
	www.satyamag.com /apr05/ban.html (1162 words)

	Amherst College Commencement 2005: Honorands: Shigeru Ban
		Shigeru Ban is a visionary architect known for building strong, efficient and aesthetically pleasing structures from nontraditional materials, including paper and cardboard.
		In the United States, Ban is perhaps best known for his work as a principal in the THINK team that designed one of the two final entries in the World Trade Center Master Plan Competition.
		Ban also is architect of the Nomadic Museum, an assemblage of shipping containers designed to house an exhibition of works by photographer Gregory Colbert; now covering much of Pier 54 in New York, the structure will be disassembled and later rebuilt in Los Angeles, Beijing and Paris.
	www.amherst.edu /commencement/2005/honorands/ban.html (284 words)

	Shigeru Ban at Gallery Ma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One reason for this may lie in Ban’s tendency to "pursue architecture with an invisible structure," a result the architect achieves, paradoxically, by concealing almost nothing in his buildings.
		Composed of plastic tarpaulins stretched over a cardboard-tube frame, the quick-construction structures first appeared in Rwanda several years ago when UNHCR realized that their original policy of sending a plastic sheet, instruction book and hatchet was leading refugees to cut down too many trees.
		There is a sense here that Ban has arrived, and this is because "Projects in Process" is one of the most impressive exhibitions in Tokyo right now.
	www.assemblylanguage.com /reviews/Ban.html (639 words)

	Amazon.com: Shigeru Ban: Books: Matilda McQuaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Following the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, Ban responded by designing emergency temporary housing he calls Paper Log Houses, made out of paper logs, waterproof sponge tape, and beer crates that could be assembled in a matter of hours by volunteers and provided shelter for hundreds of displaced residents.
		Ban's fame began to spread rapidly beyond Japan when he was included in the Museum of Modern Art's "Un-Private House" exhibition in 1999 with his Curtain Wall House in Tokyo, a glass-and-steel house where privacy is controlled by means of monumental, two-story-high curtains along two glass facades that can be opened or closed.
		Shigeru Ban is famous for his innovative use of building materials, structural rigor and pureness.
	www.amazon.com /Shigeru-Ban-Matilda-McQuaid/dp/0714841943 (2326 words)

	shigeru ban: paper loghouse
		shigeru ban is a pioneer of paper tube structures (PTS), he investigated the substance and found that not only could recycled cardboard..................
		shigeru ban is a pioneer of paper tube structures (PTS),
		ban's ever-present sense of humor was evident in
	www.designboom.com /history/ban_paper.html (437 words)

	The Jerusalem Seminar in Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Shigeru Ban studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and earned his BArch degree from the Cooper Union before establishing his private practice in his native Tokyo in 1985.
		Ban's work can best be understood by concentrating on his innovative use of existing natural resources as building materials and his humanitarian spirit.
		Ban has taught at a number of institutions, including Columbia University and Keio University, where he currently serves as professor.
	www.jersemar.org.il /2004/speakers-ban.html (190 words)

	Gregory Colbert's Vision - Biography - ashes and snow
		Japanese architect Shigeru Ban continues to redefine the boundaries of contemporary architecture with the innovative use of unexpected materials and an intuitive response to space.
		Ban's team was a finalist in the competition for the new World Trade Center in New York, and he won the international competition for the new Centre Pompidou in Metz, France.
		Ban designed the inaugural Nomadic Museum, which debuted with the opening of the show on the Hudson River Park’s Pier 54 in New York City in March 2005.
	www.ashesandsnow.org /en/vision/biography.php?tab=3 (836 words)

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		By reexamining existing natural materials, Shigeru Ban creates new spaces that are meant to improve people’s lives while celebrating the inherent beauty of the earth.
		Ban has won numerous awards, including the Kansai Architect Grand Prize in 1996 and the Japan Institute of Architecture’s Best Young Architect of the Year in 1997, and was nominated for Time Magazine’s Innovators in Architecture and Design award.
		Ban teaches architecture at Keio University and is a principal of Shigeru Ban Architects, Tokyo.
	www.whitney.org /cgi-bin/calendar.pl?function=calendar_search&education=1&search_type=dept&state=edu&month=03&year=2003&day=01¤t_day=13&view=day (126 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Chelsea- The Nomadic Museum
		The temporary structure is composed largely of recyclable materials: the roof and columns are made of paper tubes, the steel containers stacked 34 feet high are used, and a handmade curtain to be suspended from the ceiling is made of one million pressed paper tea bags (used, with the tea leaves removed).
		Designed by the architect Shigeru Ban as a traveling home for "Ashes and Snow," an exhibition of photographs and a film by the artist Gregory Colbert, the museum is a fanciful 45,000-square-foot structure built of shipping containers, giant paper tubes and a fabric-like roof.
		Ban is known for his structures made from unexpected materials, including the Paper Tube Arch in the Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /CHE/CHE-037.htm (3311 words)

	Without walls - architectural design of a house by Shigeru Ban Architectural Review, The - Find Articles
		In the west, Shigeru Ban is best known for paper architecture, experimental buildings partly constructed with tubes built up from laminated layers of recycled paper.
		Ban himself acknowledges the influence of the New York Five, in particular of John Hejduk under whom he studied at Cooper Union in the early '80s; and his spare elegant structures, strong geometries and fluid spaces express continuing exploration of Western ideas and their delicate fusion with Japanese tradition.
		The enterprise was inspired by the Californian Case Study houses of the '50s, designed by architects such as Eames and Neutra as prototypes for living in a new age of technological optimism.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1221_204/ai_53449410 (641 words)

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