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Book Review
Where Materiality Meets
Structure
Shigeru Ban: Timber in Architecture
Edited by Laura Britton and
Vittorio Lovato
Contributions by Shigeru Ban and
Hermann Blumer
Rizzoli, 2022
by Cole Von Feldt
If the title alone wasn9t enough, then the tactile,
brown paper cover unequivocally announces the
fact that wood is front and center in Shigeru Ban:
Timber in Architecture. In this well-structured encapsulation of the many innovative timber buildings
designed by 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru
Ban, editors Laura Britton and Vittorio Lovato4
both of Shigeru Ban Architects (SBA)4delve into
the inventiveness and collaborations that have
allowed for unprecedented uses of wood joinery
in contemporary architecture.
Appropriately, the book begins with an
essay from Ban titled
