Shigeru Ban

by Philip Jodidio

Book Overview

From emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces in shipping containers, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with his restlessly inventive response to material and situation, as much as with his humanitarian work at the sites of natural and man-made disasters. According to scholar Riichi Miyake, Ban's work represents "an architectural iteration of Doctors Without Borders." In the spirit of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3836536927
• ISBN13: 9783836536929
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.3"