Shigeru Ban – Architect of Emergency Shlter wins Pritzker
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Shigeru Ban (NY times) wins Pritzker
My student Shigeru Ban wins the Pritzker for his work in temporary structures. Look up his curtain house blowing in wind. And for his tubes of cardboard. I loved a poem he wrote that was about being confused at 20 by going from Japan to New York all the time. His embrace of victims of the storms. Proud of his clear architecture.Another example of the greatness of John Hejduk’s conception of the social contract which is, after all, architecture. The fantasies at Cooper became the poetry within disaster. Cardboard !
Shigeru Ban.Paper tube emergency shelter .Time lapse video
