Shigeru Ban. Complete Works 1985¿Today

A valuable insight into the works and mind of Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. After 8 years, author Philip Jodidio explores long anticipated completed buildings, new projects, and a future outlook of the studio Shigeru Ban after TASCHEN has followed his career from the beginning. This updated XXL-monograph is a journey through the years and evolution of an architect who made a name for himself with true architectural marvels which cannot be surpassed in innovation, elegance, and sensibility. Next to early buildings deploying paper tubes as structural elements and such iconic houses as the Curtain Wall House in Tokyo, we see recent projects such as the Swatch/Omega Campus in Switzerland, a two-story penthouse on top of a 140-year-old New York City Landmark cast-iron house, and the Seine Musicale, a concert hall inserted into an overall master plan conceived by Jean Nouvel for the island Ile S¿in in France. Ban¿s work is characterized by a quest to understand buildings and a commitmen