The Godfather of Modern Origami. Without him origami wouldn't be as it is. Without him origami isn't as it was.
The master of teaching origami realises her vision of "Origami&Kids" every day in the middle of Tel Aviv.
An inspiration to many because of his willingness to share his ideas and search for an understanding of the scope and potential of paper-folding both as an art in its own right and as a visual form of poetry for mathematics.
A top web designer and top folder – and a cornerstone of the exhibition "Masters of Origami".
Paper maker, designer, publisher - Michael is one of the great universal geniuses of origami.
An Englishman in Israel – A virtuoso who added fantastic ideas to the world of origami ("Paper Music").
Giang Dinh was born in Vietnam in 1966 and began creating folded paper models in 1998. He later went on to study architecture in Vietnam and the United States. Today he lives as an architect in Virginia.
Saburo Kase lost his eyesight at the age of twelve. The physical and mental power of sumo wrestlers whom he had encountered when he could still see as a child became Saburo Kase’s guiding principle: “The memory gave me the power to master my life like a ‘flying bull’.”
Stefan Weber was born in 1963 in Cologne. He lives in Chile and Germany as an origami artist and instructor of classical guitar. Stefan Weber has been folding origami models for ten years.
Both Krystyna and Wojtek Burczyk studied theoretical mathematics. Since 1997 they have been creating folded paper models which they let evolve step by step like a geometrical construction. In 2000, Krystyna and Wojtek Burczyk founded the Polish Origami Center in Krakow.
Rona Gurkewitz lives in Brookfield, Connecticut, and is professor for computer science at Western Connecticut State University. Bennett Arnstein lives in Los Angeles and teaches origami in southern California.
David Brill began creating origami models as a child in the nineteen-fifties. Today he is the vice-president of the British Origami Society.
Born in the small village of Roccalumera on the island of Sicily in 1950, Alfredo Giunta attended the Arts College in Messina. Today he lives and works as a teacher of art in Vicenza.
Jun Maekawa was born in Tokyo in 1958. Having studied physics, he developed a new origami method based on fundamental geometric patterns that mark the beginning of “complex origami.” Maekawa’s insights into the connection of mathematics and origami are summed up in the “Maekawa Theorem.”
Eric Joisel began creating folded paper models in 1983 and has been living in Paris since 1991 as a professional origami artist. Inspired by Akira Yoshizawa’s work, it is Joisel’s main interest to give his figures “a breath of life.”
Nathan M. Geller began folding origami when he was eight years old and for the last 12 years he is creating his own designs. Among other things, he has taught at the Origami USA Congress in New York
Koryu Miura is professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and the Institute for Space Technology (JAXA). In the 1970s, he developed a folding structure that now carries his name. The “Miura-ori” is used today, among other things, in the production of soda cans, city maps, and solar sails for satellites.
Nick Robinson has been folding paper models since the early eighties. He is a member of the British Origami Society, publisher of their magazine, and their web designer: www.britishorigami.org.uk
Hideo Komatsu was born in 1977 and is presently a member of the Japan Origami Academic Society.
Heinz Strobl was born in Bavaria in 1946 and has been folding origami models since kindergarten. He studied physics at the Technical University in Munich. Today he develops software for high-end computers as his main profession. In 1992, Strobl discovered his unique predilection for folding strips of paper and developed the technique of ”knotology.”
Dino Andreozzi was born in Italy in 1965 and folded traditional origami models as a child. In 1988, he went to Sweden and studied the works of the German pedagogue and paper folder Friedrich Fröbel at Linköping University. Today, Dino Andreozzi works as an origami teacher in Chile.
Florence Temko has been producing folded paper models for over fifty years. She is a founding member of Origami USA, and has published more than fifty “how-to” manuals on origami.
Linda Mihara lives in San Francisco and has been folding paper models since she was five. Today she is considered as a top designer of the Sembazuru style (thousands of cranes) and has won awards for origami based on the Rokoan technique.
Marc Kirschenbaum has been creating origami models for more than thirty years. He published the book “Paper in Harmony.” Today he is a board member of Origami USA. As his main profession, Marc Kirschenbaum runs a consulting firm for information technology.
Mark Morden was born in 1958 and learned origami in elementary school. Today he lives and works as an architect in Seattle where he founded the “Puget Area Paper-folding Enthusiasts Roundtable” (PAPER).
Jean Claude Correia attended the École des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and founded the Mouvement Francais des Plieurs de Papier in 1978.
Jonathan Baxter has been folding paper models for twentyfive years. He was a student of the origami master Akira Yoshizawa and became a professional origami artist ten years ago.
Paulo Mulatinho studied graphic and industrial design in Rio de Janeiro. He has been folding origami for twenty years and lives in Freising by Munich since 1985. Paulo Mulatinho is the founding president of Origami Germany.
Ruthanne Bessman has been folding origami for eighteen years and is an active member of Origami USA. One of her activities as an origami teacher is working with the children in the medical school hospital of the University of Wisconsin.
Joseph Wu has been constructing origami models for thirty-one years. By the age of eleven, he was creating his own designs. His website www.origami.as is a central forum for origami artists all over the world.
Ian Harrison has been folding paper models since the fifties and is currently a member of the British Origami Society. In the nineties, he began to employ modular origami as a tool in assisting mathematics students with the solution of geometry problems in three-dimensional space.
Already at the age of nine Peter Budai began creating his own origami models. At the age of twelve, he published his first book entitled “Origami for Everyone.” Peter Budai studied environmental engineering at the Technical University of Budapest.
At the age of eight, Stephen Weiss began to fold paper models. He has now been practicing origami for about fifty years. In 1984 he published the book “Wings + Things: Origami That Flies.”
Vincent Floderer is considered master of the “crumpling” technique, in which the paper is extensively wrinkled and crinkled before it is folded. Floderer’s enthusiasm for the diversity of biological forms is expressed in his stunningly realistic models of aquatic animals and plant life.
Laura Kruskal is an origami artist and the daughter-in-law of Lillian Oppenheimer who has made significant contributions to the promotion of origami in the West.
Noriko Nagata studied mathematics at the Nara Women’s University and has been producing folded paper models for twenty-five years. She has been a member of the Nippon Origami Association since 1992.
Arnold Tubis taught physics at Purdue University in Indiana. For forty years he has been creating origami models which were inspired by mathematical problems. He published the book “Unfolding Mathematics With Origami Boxes.”
Peter Paul Forcher was born in Oberdrum in East Tyrol in 1946. He has been active in origami since 1982. He taught mathematics at the commercial academy in Lienz from 1972 to 2000.
Herman van Goubergen has been folding paper models for thirty years. He lives as an origami artist in Belgium.
Wilhelm Möller taught electronics at the Mittweida Technical School. He perfects the folding of paper strips since 1995.
Susumu Nakajima began folding cranes twenty-seven years ago and now teaches origami in Tokyo.
Gay Merrill Gross folded her first paper models when she was nine. She has practiced origami for forty-three years and is an active member of Origami USA.
David Mitchell has folded origami since 1963 and is internationally known for his innovative modular designs. He has been a member of the British Origami Society since 1987.
Jason Ku, eighteen years old, is one of the youngest, internationally renowned origami masters. Influenced by Robert Lang and John Montroll, he began developing his own paper models five years ago. This fall he will begin his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT).
Dr. Saadya Sternberg who studied art and philosophy at Harvard and the University of Chicago, helped launch the Chicago Area Origami Society (CHAOS) in the late 1980s. His recent origami explores how curving folds can be used to create highly expressive figure sculptures.
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American origami artist Ethan Plaut is author of the book "Origamido".
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Ethan Plaut
