July 19th, 2005
Shigeru Ban designed this Tokyo home in 1995; instead of an outer wall, it has a 40-foot curtain (giving new meaning to the phrase “curtain-wall construction”).
“Mies [van der Rohe] invented the glass curtain wall”, Ban explained,
“but I just used a curtain.”
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March 26th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Shigeru Ban:
Hello mr. I am an architect student in Chile and i need to analyze youre house proyect ( Curtain wall house ) for a job in my school. I will be very grateful if you could send me more information about this proyect, like technical specifications and all kind of information that you used to build it.
R.S.V.P