SCAF Sydney Announces Shigeru Ban’s First Australian Project
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The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) has announced Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s First Australian Project. The architect will design two installations to be presented at SCAF in Sydney from March 25 until July 1, 2017, ma
SCAF Sydney Announces Shigeru Ban’s First Australian Project
The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) has announced Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s First Australian Project. The architect will design two installations to be presented at SCAF in Sydney from March 25 until July 1, 2017, marking the first time that SCAF’s interior and exterior spaces have showcased the work of a single practitioner. It will be SCAF’s final project before the foundation evolves into a contemporary centre for ideas and culture.The exhibition will “shine a spotlight on Japanese architect Ban’s pioneering and resourceful designs and importantly his dedication to humanitarian efforts around the world.” The Courtyard Garden will feature two of Shigeru Ban’s signature disaster relief shelters while the interior gallery to highlight key “stepping stones’ from Shigeru Ban Architects’ Shigeru Ban Architects’ 2000 Japan Pavilion in Hannover, Germany, to the celebrated 2013 Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch, New ZealandShigeru Ban comments: “Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualise their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.” Read more
