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Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban 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 innovati…
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9
Works
1
Bureaus
0
Books
About
Biography
Shigeru Ban 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 innovati…
Life: Born 1957
Nationality: Japanese
Base: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Corpus work span: 1939 to 2024
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9 works across 6 linked cities and 3 linked countries.
Leading typologies: museum · performance venue · cathedral
Leading materials: cardboard · glass · polycarbonate
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Selected works
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Onagawa Station
1939 · Onagawa, Onagawa, Japan
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Paper Dome
2008 · Puli Township, Puli Township, Japan
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Centre Pompidou-Metz
2010 · Metz, Metz, France
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Cardboard Cathedral
2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Ōita Prefectural Art Museum
2015 · Oita, Oita, Japan
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La Seine Musicale
2017 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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Toyota City Museum
2024 · Toyota, Toyota, Japan
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Le Consortium
Unknown · Dijon, Dijon, France
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Simose Art Museum
Unknown · Ōtake-shi, Ōtake-shi, Japan