Winner of Pritzker Architecture Prize, Shigeru Ban has a microbial connection …

Just read this from NPR – In The Face Of Disaster, Pritzker Winner Shigeru Ban Designs Solutions : NPR. It tells the story of how architect Shigeru Ban has won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in architecture. In addition to being a very socially conscious architect, Ban also has an interesting connection to microbes and building design. But not perhaps in the way one might think.

What I am talking about is when Shigeru Ban’s Centre Pompidou Met was transformed into a sort of living bacterial art display. See the video below:

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Hal Levin says:

March 27, 2014 at 4:54 am

From architects’ perspectives?

See more on Shigeru Ban in the magazine architects read – http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2014/03/140323-Shigeru-Ban-Pritzker-Architecture-Prize-2014.asp

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