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« Die ‹ Paper Tube Structures › von Shigeru Ban. ‹ Architektur als Objekt › im wörtlichen Sinne »
Maison d'édition
: Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Nürnberg
Date de parution
2012-7-20
De la page
1449
A la page
1453
Résumé
Paper held at the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art in Nürnberg; The Challenge of the Object:
The architect Shigeru Ban, born in Tokyo in 1957, shows with his buildings from cardboard tubes that architecture can certainly have the character of an object that is both portable and that one can actually grasp. His paper tube structures can be moved from one place to another without any effort. The tent roof of his Paper Church of 1995, built to replace a building destroyed in the Kobe earthquake, is built on 58 cardboard tubes. Ten years after its consecration, the church was disassembled into its constituent tubes and sent to Taiwan. Shigeru Ban makes it possible to present a finished sacred building as a gift to a neighbouring country as if it were an ‘object’. In April 2008, the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company auctioned off a finished paper tea house by the architect for £31,700.
With his Japan Pavilion at the World Expo 2000 in Hanover, Ban created the biggest construction that had ever been made of paper. The Pavilion comprised a three-dimensional mesh of 440 cardboard rolls whose outer surface was made of a water-resistant paper membrane. In keeping with the eco-political guiding theme of Expo 2000, all the materials of the building were intended to be able to be recycled and re-used after the end of the exhibition. Up to this point, the work of an architect had been regarded as finished once the building was complete. Shigeru Ban, however, sees his paper buildings only as ‘completed’ when they have fulfilled their temporary purpose and have been disposed of in an ecological manner. They thereby comply with the same norms as the packaging materials for consumer products.
The fact that concepts such as ‘architecture’ and ‘mobility’ are by no means mutually exclusive is proven by the Nomadic Museum that the architect constructed in 2005 from paper tubes and 148 shipping containers, next to the Hudson River in New York. It was built for the exhibition ‘Ashes and Snow’ by the photo artist Gregory Colbert. As the adjective ‘nomadic’ suggests, the architecture travels along with the exhibits in this touring exhibition. From this combination of paper tubes and containers, Shigeru Ban developed the ephemeral ‘Papertainer Museum’ in 2006 for the Korean publisher ‘Design House’ in Seoul. The present lecture will illustrate the notion of ‘architecture as object’ in its literal sense and will question the traditional concept of architecture.
The architect Shigeru Ban, born in Tokyo in 1957, shows with his buildings from cardboard tubes that architecture can certainly have the character of an object that is both portable and that one can actually grasp. His paper tube structures can be moved from one place to another without any effort. The tent roof of his Paper Church of 1995, built to replace a building destroyed in the Kobe earthquake, is built on 58 cardboard tubes. Ten years after its consecration, the church was disassembled into its constituent tubes and sent to Taiwan. Shigeru Ban makes it possible to present a finished sacred building as a gift to a neighbouring country as if it were an ‘object’. In April 2008, the auction house Phillips de Pury & Company auctioned off a finished paper tea house by the architect for £31,700.
With his Japan Pavilion at the World Expo 2000 in Hanover, Ban created the biggest construction that had ever been made of paper. The Pavilion comprised a three-dimensional mesh of 440 cardboard rolls whose outer surface was made of a water-resistant paper membrane. In keeping with the eco-political guiding theme of Expo 2000, all the materials of the building were intended to be able to be recycled and re-used after the end of the exhibition. Up to this point, the work of an architect had been regarded as finished once the building was complete. Shigeru Ban, however, sees his paper buildings only as ‘completed’ when they have fulfilled their temporary purpose and have been disposed of in an ecological manner. They thereby comply with the same norms as the packaging materials for consumer products.
The fact that concepts such as ‘architecture’ and ‘mobility’ are by no means mutually exclusive is proven by the Nomadic Museum that the architect constructed in 2005 from paper tubes and 148 shipping containers, next to the Hudson River in New York. It was built for the exhibition ‘Ashes and Snow’ by the photo artist Gregory Colbert. As the adjective ‘nomadic’ suggests, the architecture travels along with the exhibits in this touring exhibition. From this combination of paper tubes and containers, Shigeru Ban developed the ephemeral ‘Papertainer Museum’ in 2006 for the Korean publisher ‘Design House’ in Seoul. The present lecture will illustrate the notion of ‘architecture as object’ in its literal sense and will question the traditional concept of architecture.
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Nom de l'événement
« Die ‹ Paper Tube Structures › von Shigeru Ban. ‹ Architektur als Objekt › im wörtlichen Sinne »
Lieu
Nürnberg, 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art
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Type de publication
conference paper
