Cardboard architecture : eight decades of exploration in academic research and professional practice 1940-2019

Explorations in the use of cardboard products in architecture appear in the field’s research literature since the 1940s. However, it was not until the early 1990s, when Shigeru Ban's work emerged, did cardboard products became a potential material for architecture. Since then, cardboard use in architecture has been continuously growing world- wide, and Ban's cardboard buildings have now achieved important recognition. This article is a review of cardboard architecture in academic research and professional architectural practice in the last eight decades. The article sum- marizes the fundamentals of cardboard architectural design and illustrates diverse strategies proposed by different authors to decrease cardboard strength degradation due to the material's weaknesses