SHIGERU BAN, PAPER LOG HOUSE, KOBE, JAPAN, 1995. PHOTO: HIROYUKI HIRAI
Shigeru Ban
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC - May 10 – Oct 8
Prisker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is acclaimed for his innovative use of inexpensive local materials in the creation of temporary shelters for those made homeless by environmental or political disasters. His VAG Offsite installation recapitulates the prototype “log cabin” shelter he designed in response to the 1995 Kobe earthquake. Primarily built out of cardboard tubing, Ban’s cabin expresses his concerns with sustainability and humanitarianism in the service of disaster relief.
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