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2006 HOPES Eco Design Arts ConferenceThe Ecological Design Center is proud to invite you to the 2006 HOPES Conference from April 13-16 at the School of Architecture & Allied Arts on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene.
The 2006 HOPES Conference will open with a keynote presentation by internationally acclaimed architect and structural innovator Shigeru Ban.
The 49-year-old Ban is perhaps most famous for his development of paper tube structures, disaster relief works, and refined Modernist aesthetic.
His major works include the Japan Pavilion for the Hannover Expo 2000 in Germany; Paper Art Museum and Paper Church in Japan; Paper Tube Arch for MoMA in New York; DIY disaster relief housing in Rwanda and Kobe, Japan; and the recently completed Nomadic Museum, a traveling work constructed almost entirely from mammoth paper columns and shipping containers.
In 2004, Ban received the Grande Medaille d'Or from the Academie d' Architecture and was named an honorary AIA fellow by the American Institute of Architects.
He is also recipient of several World Architecture Awards-including the 2002 House of the Year Award (Naked House) and the 2000 Best Building in Europe (Japan Pavilion)-and he was named Japan's Best Young Architect in 1999.
The theme of HOPES 2006 is "Permanence / Impermanence" and the conference will address the numerous
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