Written by Emma-Louise Tovey

Famed Japanese ‘paper architect’ Shigeru Ban has designed exhibition spaces out of shipping containers and paper tubes, houses without walls, and emergency relief log houses with paper tube walls for disaster victims in Kobe,  New Orleans, India, and Turkey to name a few.  And now every single work Ban built can be found in print within Taschen’s limited edition Shigeru Ban, Complete Works 1985 – 2010 with a specially made cover.

Shigeru Ban at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010 booth he designed. 

Alvar Aalto Exhibition, Axis Gal

lery, Tokyo, Japan, 1986. Copyright Yuki Shimzu.

Library Of A Poet, Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan, 1990 - 91. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai.

Miyake Design Studio Gallery, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, 1993 - 94. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai.

Paper House, Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi, Japan, 1994 - 95. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai.

Curtain Wall House, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan, 1994 - 95. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai.

Paper Emergency Shelters for the UNHCR, Yumba Refugee Camp, Rwanda, 1999. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai. 

Japan Pavillon, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany, 1999 - 2000. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai.

Japan Pavillon, Expo 2000, Hanover, Germany, 1999 - 2000. Copyright Hiroyuki Hirai.

Above images courtesy of Taschen.