This architect included a Universal Floor in a project inspired by an assignment from his Cooper Union teacher John Hejduk called the Nine-Square Grid House, and furthered the idea of a curtain wall in his Case Study House 07.  
This architect included a Universal Floor in a project inspired by an assignment from his Cooper Union teacher John Hejduk called the Nine-Square Grid House, and furthered the idea of a curtain wall in his Case Study House 07.  An art museum designed by this man has a glass elevator inspired by a gondola from which patrons then "ski" down to the galleries. A bamboo hat inspired the hexagonal shell made from timber he used for the roof of a (*) Metz art museum.  Some of his structures are anchored by sand-filled Kirin beer crates.  He designed the Aspen Museum of Art.  This man's own summer house on Lake Yamanaka was one of the first to use paper for a building material; he subsequently used paper for his series of refugee houses following the Kobe earthquake.  For 10 points, name this Japanese winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize and designer of the Cardboard Cathedral.
This architect included a Universal Floor in a project inspired by an assignment from his Cooper Union teacher John Hejduk called the Nine-Square Grid House, and furthered the idea of a curtain wall in his Case Study House 07.  
Shigeru Ban [or Ban Shigeru]