OCT. 18: CONVERSATION, HAMMER MUSEUM (WITH WIRED): RAY KAPPE, SHIGERU BAN

Ray Kappe & Shigeru Ban
HAMMER Conversations - Co-presented with WIRED Magazine.
7pm, Hammer Museum, Wilshire at Westwood Bl., Westwood/LA.

Ray Kappe, much awarded and published Architect/Educator founded SCI-ARC in 1972, and is renowned for his residential architecture, characterized as the "apotheosis of the California Modern House." Since 2004, he has been working on his innovative, much acclaimed and published modular steel-framed prefabricated houses.

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, who studied with Ray Kappe at SCI-Arc, is known for his pioneering use of low-cost building materials such as paper and bamboo. As a consultant for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the early and mid-1990s, Ban created emergency housing from paper tubes for victims of the Rwandan civil war - designs that were redeployed for victims of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan.