Emergency shelters made from paper: Shigeru Ban at TEDxTokyo

Shigeru Ban Eco-Architect and Three-Dimensional Poet Shigeru Ban’s practical philosophy of architecture involves nothing less than redefining aesthetics, space, materials and structure. His unusual modular shelter design using recycled paper and cardboard shipping tubes, for example, provided evacuees with sturdy havens after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Shigeru graduated from Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, worked at Arata Isozaki’s atelier, and in 1985 founded Shigeru Ban Archi