Confirmed attendance of, Shigeru Ban. This Friday in Barcelona. Look at the article we published and after which, all have signed up.

El arquitecto japonés, Shigeru Ban estará en Barcelona este viernes 18 de marzo. Dará una conferencia en el Instituto de Arquitectura Avanzada de Catalunya a las 20h.

Estará muy pocas horas en la ciudad así que no puede conceder entrevistas aunque sí que será posible plantearle cuestiones tras su conferencia."

Shigeru Ban, nació en Tokio en 1957, estudió en el Southern California Institute of Architecture y se graduó en la Cooper Union School of Architecture en 1984. En 1985, fundó Shigeru Ban Arquitectos en Tokio. En 1995, comenzó a trabajar como consultor de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados y al mismo tiempo estableció una ONG, la Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) en 1995.

Es conocido por sus ideas innovadoras expuestas en proyectos como "Curtain Wall Hose", el Pabellón de Japón Hannover EXPO 200, "Nicolas G. Hayek Center", el Nomadic Museum o el Centro Pompidou-Metz. Actualmente cuenta con tres oficinas en Tokio, Nueva York y París pero sigue trabajando en proyectos de emergencia para la población, como la Casa de Papel (Kobe de Japón en 1995, Turquía en 2000 e India en 2002), la Iglesia de papel (Kobe, 1995), el Tsunami Reconstruction Project (Kirinda, Sri Lanka, 2005), una Escuela Temporal de Primaria (Chengdu, China, 2008), una sala de conciertos temporal (L'Aquila, Italia, en curso) y está trabajando actualmente en Haití.

Ha sido galardonado con varios premios, incluyendo la Grande Medaille France Academie d'Architecture (2004), Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (2005), Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture (2005),  l'Ordre National du Mérite de Francia (2009) y l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de Francia (2010). Jurado del Premio Pritzker de Arquitectura de 2007 a 2009, es profesor de la Universidad de Keio, Japón, desde 2001 hasta 2008, Profesor de Harvard University Graduate School of Design y profesor de la Universidad de Cornell (2010).

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Shigeru Ban was born in Tokyo in 1957 and after studying architecture in Los Angeles and New York, he opened an architectural practice in Tokyo, in 1985, with offices in Paris and New York, and has designed projects worldwide from private houses to large-scale museums.

His cardboard tube structures have aroused enormous interest. As long ago as 1986, he discovered the benefits of this recyclable and resilient material that is also easy to process. Shigeru Ban built the Japanese pavilion for the Expo 2000 world exposition at Hanover – a structure made of cardboard tubes that measured 75 meters in length and 15 meters in height. All the materials used in the structure were recycled after the exhibition. He developed a genuine style of "emergency architecture" as a response to the population explosion and natural disasters: the foundations of his low-cost houses are made of beer crates filled with sand, and the walls consist of foil-covered cardboard tubes. A house of this sort can be erected in less than seven hours and is considerably more sturdy than a tent.

Shigeru Ban is currently a Professor of Architecture at Keio University and is also a guest lecturer at various other universities across the globe; his works are so exceptional that he was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture in 2005. "Time" magazine describes him as one of the key innovators of the 21st century in the field of architecture and design.

Shigeru Ban has designed projects such as Centre Pompidou Metz and Nine Bridges Golf Clubhouse in Korea. Current projects include new headquarters for Swatch and Omega in Switzerland.

 

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Published on: March 16, 2011
Cite: "SHIGERU BAN. "Works and Humanitarian Activities"" METALOCUS. Accessed
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