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Why design now? national design triennial

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This publication accompanies the fourth installation in Cooper-Hewitt, the National Design Triennial exhibition series. It offers a glimpse into contemporary innovation and a survey of what progressive designers, engineers, entrepreneurs and citizens are doing in diverse fields and at different scales.

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Extreme textiles : designing for high performance

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Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 'Extreme textile: designing for high performance' surveys the stunning variety of technical textiles and examines how their intrinsec beauty and extraordinairy flexibility are revolutionizing contemporary design. This publication features examples of fully realized projects and products from architecture, apparel, medicine, transportation, sports, aerospace, and the environment and highlights the remarkable collaboration between science and industry.

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Shigeru Ban

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Based in Japan and one of an emerging generation of young, world-class architects, Shigeru Ban designs and builds graceful, serene structures using modest materials such as cardboard, paper tubes, bamboo, and prefabricated wood. His buildings are sometimes soaring and birdlike, sometimes simple, grounded, and evocative of the Japanese aesthetic, but always they are integrated with and respectful of their surrounding environment. Ban has designed projects at both ends of the client spectrum: from one-room temporary houses of paper tubes for earthquake refugees worldwide to a 14,000 square-foot country house in Sharon, Connecticut – his first U.S. commission. His humanitarian efforts and his interest in recyclable, affordable, natural materials have won praise and attention from museums and critics in America and Europe. Ban’s Curtain Wall House was a favorite entry in the Museum of Modern Art’s “Un-Private House” exhibition in 1999; he has gone on to design a museum for children in Japan, a canal museum in France, and a private art museum in Belgium; he was included in the 2000 and 2002 Venice Biennale, and created the Japan Pavilion for the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany. He was a member of the Think team of architects selected in February 2003 as one of two finalist teams to compete for the commission to design the new World Trade Center site in New York.

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Shigeru Ban

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Shigeru Ban (Tokyo, 1957) is a Japanese architect, who studied in the United States. This monograph study is centred on a series of projects which explore the possibilities of unconventional materials such as PTS (Paper Tube Structure).