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By Jeffrey Head<br>
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There are architects whose work exists only on paper. Then there is Shigeru Ban. The architect (pronounced she-gay-roo BAHN) has gained fame partly from work made of paper. The new Rizzoli book "Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture," edited by Ian Luna and Lauren A. Gould with essays by Riichi Miyake, shows how Ban has brought new meaning to architecture with his use of recycled cardboard paper tubes. "Paper is made out of trees," Ban says. "Humans create architecture out of trees, so it must be possible to create architecture out of paper."<br>
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Pictured here: Ban's weekend residence, the Paper House in Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi, Japan (1995).

( "Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture" / Rizzoli )

By Jeffrey Head

There are architects whose work exists only on paper. Then there is Shigeru Ban. The architect (pronounced she-gay-roo BAHN) has gained fame partly from work made of paper. The new Rizzoli book "Shigeru Ban: Paper in Architecture," edited by Ian Luna and Lauren A. Gould with essays by Riichi Miyake, shows how Ban has brought new meaning to architecture with his use of recycled cardboard paper tubes. "Paper is made out of trees," Ban says. "Humans create architecture out of trees, so it must be possible to create architecture out of paper."

Pictured here: Ban's weekend residence, the Paper House in Lake Yamanaka, Yamanashi, Japan (1995).

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