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PAPER, WOOD AND BAMBOO. Weakness can also be a strength—or so Shigeru Ban would say. This innovative Japanese architect, whose philosophy is that beauty should be available to the masses, has built entire homes, pavilions and churches (some of them permanent), using little more than cardboard tubes. Many of Ban’s paper-based masterpieces have been used in disaster relief, such as U.N. refugee shelters in Turkey and Rwanda and community houses in Kobe after the 1995 earthquake. This exhibit features 16 of Ban’s projects documented through architectural and engineering drawings, images...
...interest in studying endangered species, but self-deprecatingly admits that based on his performance in chemistry, one teacher suggested he focus on the humanities. Now a History of Art and Architecture concentrator, he’s decided that he eventually would like to be an architect, “economy and war permitting...
Start with an outmoded power generation plant. Hire a high-profile architect. Remove the unused equipment and renovate the interior. Add a collection of contemporary works of art. The result? The bankside Tate Modern in London—or Harvard’s new museum for contemporary art on the Charles River...
...There is a serious need for more graduate housing close to campus, so that these students can better utilize facilities and serve as teaching fellows. On the losing end: Harvard University Art Museums and Cambridge cultural life, which would be served by a premier museum designed by a premier architect like Renzo Piano (and may lose current museums, like the Peabody, to Allston in the future...
Design school curator Kim Shkapich explains that the sixteen projects in the exhibit “were selected for their structural innovations, and as examples of the incremental and methodological approach of the architect to refine/define new models for construction and design practice...