I graduated from the University of Texas in the early '70's with a degree in philosophy and no paying job on the horizon, so I hitchhiked from Austin to San Francisco and encountered my first art & crafts show. "Wow", I thought, "What a way to making a living, selling things you
T.M.SCHMID is born in Schaffhausen and lives and works in Zurich. 2001 he finished the master of architecture at the ETH Zurich. After the study he went to a scholarship trip to Brazil (Erich Degen Foundation - Topic: 'The built belief in a better world'). He begins to break through traditional ways.
Shigeru Ban is an accomplished Japanese and international architect, most famous for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard paper tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. He studied at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and later went on t