{"product_id":"shigeru-ban-9780714846293","title":"Shigeru Ban","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased in Japan and one of an emerging generation of young  world-class architects  Shigeru Ban (b. 1957) designs and builds graceful  serene structures using modest materials such as cardboard  paper tubes  bamboo  and prefabricated wood. His buildings are sometimes soaring and birdlike  sometimes simple  grounded  and evocative of the Japanese aesthetic  but always they are integrated with and respectful of their surrounding environment. Ban has designed projects at both ends of the client spectrum: from one-room temporary houses of paper tubes for earthquake refugees worldwide to a 14 000 square-foot country house in Sharon  Connecticut -- his first U.S. commission. His humanitarian efforts and his interest in recyclable  affordable  natural materials have won praise and attention from museums and critics in America and Europe. Bans Curtain Wall House was a favorite entry in the Museum of Modern Arts \"Un-Private House\" exhibition in 1999; he has gone on to design a museum for children in Japan  a canal museum in France  and a private art museum in Belgium; he was included in the 2000 and 2002 Venice Biennale  and created the Japan Pavilion for the Expo 2000 in Hannover  Germany. He was a member of the Think team of architects selected in February 2003 as one of two finalist teams to compete for the commission to design the new World Trade Center site in New York. The hardcover edition of this book is only the second book on Ban in print -- and unlike the first publication  it is the most recent and complete. Designed in Japan and in collaboration with Ban  it is divided into sections that reflect the architects approach to materials  and presents 32 projects illustrated with colour photographs  plans  and sketches.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45272545656885,"sku":"ByrdShop_0714846295","price":242.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780714846293.jpg?v=1780481326","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/shigeru-ban-9780714846293","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}