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‘Shigeru Ban – Architecture and Humanitarian Activities’ Exhibition

Venice Biennale 2012: Wunderkammer / Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

Click here to view the embedded video. At the gardens of the Arsenale designed by Piet Oudolf, a small pavilion, the Casa Scaffali, encloses a fantastic world of smells, textures and artifacts, a Wunderkammer (wonder-room) curated by NY-based Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture by Shigeru Ban

While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (+ slideshow).

‘Made With Bamboo: Architecture, Arts & Crafts’ Event

Hosted by the faculties of Architecture and of Inter-Media at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, the ‘Made With Bamboo: Architecture, Arts & Crafts’ event will take place Monday, October 29th at 6:30pm. The aim of this presentation is to grow the appreciation of this wonder grass and the most outstanding architects, designers and [...]

‘Made With Bamboo: Architecture, Arts & Crafts’ Event

Hosted by the faculties of Architecture and of Inter-Media at the China Academy of Arts in Hangzhou, the ‘Made With Bamboo: Architecture, Arts & Crafts’ event will take place Monday, October 29th at 6:30pm. The aim of this presentation is to grow the appreciation of this wonder grass and the most outstanding architects, designers and [...]

Matter in the Floating World / Blaine Brownell

Author, architect and materials expert Blaine Brownell recently published a book on his travels to twenty leading material and design innovators in Japan. The book includes interviews with Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Sejima, and others. Brownell took on this journey to discover the connections between materiality and transience in their work. For [...]

Interview with Shigeru Ban by Martha Thorne

IE School of Architecture shared with us the interview that Associate Dean of External Relations, Martha Thorne conducted with innovative Japanese architect Shigeru Ban at Hay Festival Segovia, Spain. Interview with Shigeru Ban by Martha Thorne originally appeared on ArchDaily, the most visited architecture website on 01 Nov 2010.

Architecture and Influence: Brad Pitt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyIC9jrskhc It’s no mystery that you don´t need to graduate from architecture school at university to become an architect – just ask Le Corbusier, Mies or Frank Lloyd Wright. Clearly Brad Pitt didn´t go to school either, but trust me that I wouldn´t be too surprised to see him receiving an architect award or the [...]

A new jury for the Pritzker

The Pritzker Prize is the Nobel equivalent for Architecture. It honors “a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture”.