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Cersaie 2021: Conferences and Seminars
Shigeru Ban - Keynote Lecture

Friday 01 October - 11.00 a.m.
EuropAuditorium Palazzo dei Congressi

Winner of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize, Shigeru Ban has demonstrated to the world the unlimited architectural potential of inexpensive and completely natural materials and has made lightness and sustainability his signature style.
As cited in the jury statement for the award known as the Nobel Prize of architecture, “For Shigeru Ban, sustainability is not a concept to add on after the fact; rather, it is intrinsic to architecture. His works strive for appropriate products and systems that are in concert with the environment and the specific context, using renewable and locally produced materials, whenever possible.”

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Shigeru Ban More

Shigeru Ban

Architect

Biographical notes
Shigeru Ban, who was born in Tokyo in 1957, attended at Southern California Institute of Architecture and graduated from Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1984. In 1985, he established Shigeru Ban Architects, a private practice in Tokyo. In 1995, He started working as a consultant of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and at the same time established an NGO, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) in 1995. Renowned for his works with innovative ideas such as “Curtain Wall House”, “Japan Pavilion Hannover EXPO 2000”, “Nicolas G. Hayek Center”, “Centre Pompidou-Metz”, he is today based in his three offices at Tokyo, New York and Paris. Meanwhile, he contributes his knowledge, skills and energy for the disaster relief projects such as Paper Log House (Kobe of Japan in 1995, Turkey in 2000, India in 2002), Paper Church (Kobe,1995), Temporary Elementary School (Chengdu, China 2008) and Container Temporary Housing (Onagawa, Japan in 2011)  He has been awarded a number of prizes, including Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture (2005), l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France (2010) and Auguste Perret Prize(2011).  Jury of Pritzker Architecture Prize from 2007 to 2009, Professor at Keio University, Japan from 2001 to 2008, Visiting Professor of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Visiting Professor of Cornell University(2010), and Professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design from 2011.


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Francesco Dal Co More

Francesco Dal Co

Architetto e Professore di storia dell'architettura, IUAV Venezia

Nota biografica

Laurea in architettura, Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV, 1970).

Cattedra di Storia dell'Architettura, IUAV, dal 1981.

Professor, History of Architecture, School of Architecture, Yale University (1982-1991).

Professore, Storia dell'Architettura, Accademia di Architettura dell'Università della Svizzera Italiana (1996-2005).

Direttore, Dipartimento di Storia dell'Architettura, IUAV (1995-2003).

Direttore, Sezione Architettura, La Biennale di Venezia (1988-1991).

Responsabile pubblicazioni di architettura della Casa Editrice Electa, dal 1978.

Curatore, Sezione Architettura, La Biennale di Venezia (1998).

Direttore della rivista “Casabella” dal 1996.

Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Scholar, Getty Center, Santa Monica CA.

Membro del comitato di direzione, Society of Architectural Historians USA.

Dottore Honoris Causa in Ingegneria, Politecnico di Gand.

Accademico di San Luca, Roma.

Honorary Fellow Royal Institute of British Architects.


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