Shigeru Ban

这并非一本展示建筑大师光辉作品的图录，而是一部关于「建筑可以做什么」的务实答卷。坂茂把纸筒、纸板、竹子和预制木这些被主流眼光轻视的材料，造出了能抵御灾难、庇护灾民的临时居所，也造出了高耸如鸟、沉静如日本庭院的永久建筑。本书最打动专业读者的，是它近乎苛刻的细节诚实：解剖图、材料测试数据、被刻意做精致的铆钉与螺栓节点——这些「容易被忽略」的部分，恰恰构成了他「踏实的天才」的注脚。结构按「纸—木—竹—预制—表皮」五个板块展开，不是为炫技，而是追问一种材料与环境的和谐关系。它适合两类人：一是厌倦了符号化封面、想看清结构如何落地的从业者；二是相信建筑应有温度的普通读者——读完你会重新理解，朴素不等于廉价，克制本身即是一种力量。

Matilda McQuaid is Exhibitions Curator and Head of the Textiles Department at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and until 2001, was Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the author of numerous essays on architecture, textiles and fibre art in journals and museum publications, including a contribution to Envisioning Architecture: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art (Museum of Modern Art, 2002), which she also edited. Frei Otto is an eminent architect based in Germany, who has pioneered research in lightweight membranes and innovative structures. He founded the Development Centre for Lightweight Construction in Berlin in 1957, which later became the Institute for Lightweight Structures in Stuttgart. He collaborated with Shigeru Ban on the Japan Pavilion for Expo 2000 in Hanover, Germany.