Special Lecture: Works and Humanitarian Activities by Shigeru Ban
Thursday, Jun 18, 201512:02 PMEDT
| LACMA, Bing Theater Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CARelated
Pritzker Prize–winning architect Shigeru Ban speaks about recent projects and his work creating temporary housing for disaster victims—structures that have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative thinkers in his field. Ban studied in Tokyo and the Southern California Institute of Architecture before completing his bachelor of architecture degree at Cooper Union. Establishing his own practice in Tokyo in 1985, Ban developed a series of case studies using paper-tube structures that he later proposed as shelters for refugees of the Rwandan Civil War and subsequently for victims of the Kobe Earthquake in 1995 and Vietnamese refugees. Ban’s interest in helping disaster victims led to the founding of the Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN), which has operated in Turkey, western India, Haiti, and Japan. Among his completed works are the Hanover Expo’s Japan Pavilion in Germany, Nomadic Museum, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Oita Prefecture Museum of Art, and the Cardboard Cathedral in New Zealand. Thursday, June 18, 2015 | 7:30 pm LACMA, Bing Theater Free and open to the public; reservations required http://www.lacma.org/event/shigeru-ban
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