He is a journalist, civil engineer and professor at the Universidad Nacional del Sud in subjects related to architectural heritage and urban planning. He has published articles in the magazines Propiedad, Todo es Historia, Obras & Protagonistas and Summa +. He participates in several radio micros referring to the history of Bahía Blanca. On two occasions he received first mention from ADEPA in the Culture and History category.
In 1949, the American architect Philip Johnson (1906-2005) designed the so-called Glass House, the Glass House, as part of his thesis at Harvard University and which was his residence from its construction until his death.
The work is located in New Canaan, Connecticut, and is, literally, a glass and steel box, of extreme simplicity and considered a jewel of modern architecture and the axiom “less is more.” Today it is a place of pilgrimage for architects, designers and students from all over the world.
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{{msg}} {{msg}}The unique thing for those who visit the site this year is that they will find something new. The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (1957), together with professors and students from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union, has built a housing prototype called the “Paper Log House” – house made of paper logs – located a few meters from Johnson’s house.
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The work – which will be dismantled at the end of the year – pays tribute to the 75th anniversary of the construction of the glass house. It is a 4.20 meter by 4.20 meter construction made with paper tubes, wood and milk boxes. It is a prototype that has been providing temporary accommodation to disaster victims around the world for three decades.
Its components were manufactured at the school for five weeks and then transported to New Canaan. In two days in March 2024, 17 students, teachers and studio staff assembled the structure in 15 hours of work.
Born from his desire to create no waste, Shigeru Ban’s works with paper tubes began in 1985, elevating the humble material through buildings and disaster relief projects, many of which have since remained permanently.
The Paper Log House seeks to create an opportunity to reflect on the permanence of architecture and how different construction materials – glass, brick and paper – offer unexpected possibilities. Ban also referred to the possible survival of his work: “If you love a building, it becomes permanent.”
