坂茂 Shigeru Ban

出版时间：20031001  出版社：PHAIDON PRESS  作者：MCQUAID,MATILDA  页数：240  
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内容概要

Shigeru Ban lives and works in Tokyo, where he teaches
architecture at Keio University. The scope of his practice - he has
houses, museums, pavilions, and other public projects in progress
in France, London, Beijing, Portugal, Brussels, and the United
States - belies a relatively quiet early career in Tokyo. Following
studies at the Southern California Institute of Architecture
(SCI-ARC) and graduation from The Cooper Union in New York, he
established his own firm in Toyko in 1985. During next decade, Ban
built a following in Japan by designing dozens of unique small
houses, exhibitions, and other projects using alternative,
environmentally friendly materials: paper, wood, bamboo and
prefabricated paper products. 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. Following on the success of this project, from 1995 to
2000 Ban was a consultant to the United Nations High Commission for
Refugees, advising on temporary housing for displaced populations
in Rwanda, Turkey, and India. He established the Voluntary
Architects' Network (VAN) in 1995, an organization that continues
to promote such humanitarian assistance by architects. Ban has won
several awards, including the Kansai Architect Grand Prize in 1996,
and Best Young Architect of the Year from the Japan Institute of
Architecture in 1997. 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. The following year Ban
designed his first museum project in the United States, also at
MoMA: "Paper Arch", an installation of cardboard tubes in a canopy
over the museum's sculpture garden. Also in 2000, he collaborated
with German architect Frei Otto to design the Japan Pavilion at
Expo 2000 in Hannover, a recyclable, organic-shaped structure of
paper stretched over a paper tube armature. The modest names Ban
gives to his projects - "Paper Church", "Library of a Poet",
"Bamboo Furniture House", "Naked House" - express his lack of
pretense and his focus on materials and structure rather than form
for form's sake. This book features 32 of Ban's most exemplary
projects realized since 1993, divided into 5 sections based on the
primary materials or construction principle used: paper, wood,
bamboo, prefabrication, and skin. Each project is documented with
colour photographs, plans, drawings, and a brief, straightforward
project description. In addition, the book contains four sections
of "experimental data", or technical information, printed in red
and black on grey tinted paper. These sections gather diagrams,
tables, sketches, and explanatory text to document the numerous
tests that Ban's office has made over the years to study the
strength, performance, and structural potential of his materials. A
foreword by the distinguished German architect Frei Otto, with whom
Ban has collaborated for several years, introduces the book. Also
included is an essay by Shigeru Ban about his work with Otto on the
Japan Pavilion.

作者简介

Matilda McQuaid is Exhibitions Curator and Head of the Textiles
Department at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New
York, and until 2001 was an associate curator in the Department of
Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York Frei
Otto is an eminent architect based in Leonburg, Germany; he
pioneered research in lightweight membranes and innovative
structures. He collaborated with Shigeru Ban on the Japan Pavilion
for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany. He was awarded the 2005 Royal
Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects --This
text refers to the Paperback
edition.