Rising architecture star Shigeru Ban designs and builds graceful structures using organic materials such as paper tubes, bamboo, and engineered wood. He has designed projects at both ends of the client spectrum, from one-room temporary houses for earthquake refugees to private seaside and urban villas, and has won widespread praise for his humanitarian efforts and innovative use of recyclable, affordable materials as well as for his poetic architectural style. This book, designed in collaboration with the architect, presents his projects in sections - paper, wood, bamboo, prefabrication, and skin - that delineate the major themes of his work, accompanied by technical information that documents Ban's pioneering tests on these materials.

Shigeru Ban

Arts & Photography

McQuaid, Matilda

Otto, Frei

Architecture

Phaidon Press

The Work of Frei Otto

Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn.

<p>Frei Otto, awarded the Royal Gold Medal 2006 by the Royal Institute of British Architects, is one of Germany’s most innovative architects in the second half of the 20th centuvry. In this volume, prominent authors analyse and discuss the key aspects of Frei Otto’s work. In addition it contains an extensive and detailed catalogue of over 200 buildings and projects dating from the years 1951–2004.</p>

Frei Otto. Complete Works: Lightweight Construction – Natural Design

Science & Math

Nerdinger, Winfried (edited by)

Mathematics

Birkhäuser Architecture

<p>Explains the current need for buildings that are light, energy-saving, mobile, adaptable, and natural.</p>

Finding Form: Towards an Architecture of the Minimal

Rasch, Bodo

Edition Axel Menges

Cities, estates and routing systems develop, change constantly and fundamentally cannot be planned. Claims to ownership, land and building regulations, planning decisions and political interventions make it difficult for settlement structures to adapt to constantly changing requirements to such an extent that meaningful and totally ecological use of the surface of the earth is becoming increasingly difficult, although new techniques and flexible planning models mean that a connection could be found with the self-designing processes of urban-development history.

Occupying and Connecting: Thoughts on Territories and Spheres of Influence with Particular Reference to Human Settlement

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