Shigeru Ban

Programs, Lectures & Symposia

March 27, 2006

Shigergu Ban lecturing at the National Building Museum, March 27, 2006

"Always we are depending on trust, not on the agreement. Always we try to keep a good relationship with the client. If I do some experimental building, if some problems happen afterwards—as long as I keep a good relationship with the client and as long as the client likes the house, it's no problem. We just have to fix it.."—Shigeru Ban

Paper Church designed by Shigeru Ban in 1995, Kobe, Japan.

Courtesy Shigeru Ban

"This is a paper church built 1995 after the Kobe earthquake... Architects have been working for privileged people, making monuments. I like to make monuments, too. This church was meant to be temporary... But this was there over ten years because this became the monument of a city, and people loved it, even with the paper tube structure meant to be temporary. As long as people love the building, this can be a permanent building."—Shigeru Ban