史上最全折纸名人介绍（翻译贴）

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应广大折友要求，我特此将原“折纸名人介绍”贴翻译，至于他们的名字，可以找到官方中文名字的就翻译了。找不到的还是用英文名字代替。本帖子一楼一专家。

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Michael G. LaFosse

(b. 1957, American) （生于1957年，美国）
Michael G. LaFosse is internationally regarded as one of the world's top origami masters.

Michael G. LaFosse在国际范围内被视为世界顶级的折纸大师之一。

He has been practicing origami for more than 40 years and has been teaching it for over 30 years.

他已经练习折纸超过40年，并已有超过30年的折纸教龄。

LaFosse, a master papermaker, and his partner, Richard Alexander, also create handmade origami paper, known worldwide under the name “Origamido® Paper,” which they use for their own work and is also sought after by many other origami artists.

LaFosse，纸张制造专家，和他的搭档理查德·亚历山大一起，还创作手工折纸，以“Origamido折纸工作室”享誉全球，他们用自己的纸张进行创作并受到其他的折纸艺术家的赞叹。

Together, LaFosse and Alexander have written numeous books on origami.

LaFosse和亚历山大已经写了许多关于折纸的书。

A biologist by training, LaFosse skillfully uses the wetfolding technique and his own specially made papers to create dynamic representations of the natural world.

作为一个生物学家，又经过折纸训练，LaFosse已经可以熟练地使用湿折法和他自己特制的纸张来创作自然世界的各种折纸模型。

His website is origamido.com

他的网站是    origamido.com

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Sipho Mabona  辛芬 马伯纳

(b.1980, Swiss/South African)

（生于1980，瑞士/南非）
Sipho Mabona, of Swiss and South African background, was five years old when he folded his first paper airplane.

辛芬 马伯纳 拥有瑞士和南非双国籍，5岁的时候，他折叠了他的第一个纸飞机。

Since then, Mabona's origami has covered a great range of different styles, from very intricate, representational designs to abstract geometrical shapes.

从那时起，马伯纳的折纸设计覆盖不同的折纸风格，从抽象的几何形状到非常复杂的，具象的设计。

Recently, he has created a number of thought-provoking origami installations, bearing powerful social messages about environmental destruction and the dangers of consumerism.

最近，他设立了许多深入研究折纸的协会，承担许多社会问题，有关于环境的破坏和危险的消费主义。

He also designed origami for the award-winning Asics corporate movie Origami in the Pursuit of Perfection , which is featured in this exhibition.

他还为追求完美而为屡获殊荣的ASICS公司的电影《折纸》设计折纸作品，该作品在本次展览会展出。

His website is mabonaorigami.com

他的网站mabonaorigami.com

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Nice project! But origami's hall of fame is filled with soooooooooooo many super artists ;-) that it will be an enormous job.

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John Blackman      约翰·布莱克曼
(b.1955, American) （生于1955，美国）
John Blackman's interest in origami originated as a child and has grown into a passion.

约翰·布莱克曼对于折纸的兴趣起源于孩童时代，并且已经演变为一种强烈的喜好。

His other pursuits are gardening, nature, and Ikebana (the Japanese art of flower arranging), all of which he merges with origami.

他其它的追求是园艺，自然，插花（日本插花艺术），他同时将这些兴趣与折纸结合。

Today Blackman mainly folds plant and flower forms, often turning them into Japanese-style arrangements.

如今，布莱克曼主要折叠植物和花卉，并且常常把它们折成日式风格的作品。

His works have been exhibited at several Origami USA national conventions, libraries, and galleries.

他的作品曾在几个美国折纸全国性研讨会，图书馆和艺术长廊中展览。廊Blackman's works are featured in The Art of Origami by Gay Merrill Gross and The Encyclopedia of Origami by Nick Robinson.

布莱克曼的作品曾刊登在Gay Merrill Gross的《折纸艺术》和Nick Robinson的《折纸百科》上。

His website is origamiflora.com

他的个人网站 origamiflora.com

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Krystyna  and Wojtek Burczyk

克里斯蒂娜 布尔奇科 和沃蒂克 布尔奇科

(b.1959 and 1960, Polish)

（生于1959年和1960年，波兰）
Krystyna Burczyk has taught mathematics for more than 20 years.

克里斯蒂娜 布尔奇科已经教授数学20年多年了。

In 1995 she began folding paper, exploring the relationship between origami and mathematics through the creation of geometric models.

1995年，她开始折纸，而且通过建立几何模型探索折纸与数学之间的关系

She is also interested in the educational applications of origami, especially in regard to mathematics, and has written five origami books.

她也对折纸在教育上的应用感兴趣，尤其是对于数学，并写了五本折纸图书。

Her husband and artistic collaborator, Wojtek Burczyk, also started origami in 1995 and has a similar background in mathematics and computer science.

她的丈夫沃蒂克 布尔奇科是她艺术上的合作者，他也是在1995年开始折纸，在数学和计算机科学中与她有类似的基础。

Together they promote origami within their community, and participate in national and international origami exhibitions.

他们共同推动折纸在他们的社区内的发展，并且一起参与本国和国际折纸展览会。

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Brian Chan   布赖恩·陈

(b.1980, Chinese American)

（生于1980，美籍华人）
Brian Chan studied origami avidly as a child.

布赖恩·陈像一个孩子一样如饥似渴地学习折纸。

While pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering at MIT, a visit by Robert Lang in 2004 re-inspired him to take up folding seriously.

在考取麻省理工机械工程学士学位时，一次在2004年对罗伯特·朗作品参观在重新激发了他认真地对待折叠。

Now an instructor at MIT and a freelance artist, Chan is considered one of the world's foremost origami folders.

现在，作为一个麻省理工学院的讲师在和一名自由艺术家，他成为世界上最著名的折纸家之一。

His eclectic range of complex origami forms includes insects, humans, and figures inspired by fantasy and the visual arts.

他涉猎的复杂的折纸形式范围包括昆虫，人物造型，他的作品都是视觉艺术和奇特想象的结合体。

His origami is displayed on the MIT webpage：web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/origami/

他的折纸在麻省理工学院的网页上展出：web.mit.edu/chosetec/www/origami/

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Joel Cooper  乔尔·库珀
(生于1970, American)

（生于.1970，美国）
Joel Cooper studied sculpture with an emphasis on bronze casting at the University of Kansas.

乔尔·库珀在堪萨斯大学重点研究的青铜雕塑。

He enjoyed origami as a hobby since childhood and became very adept at executing the most complicated models, yet had never designed his own pieces.

从小他将折纸作为一种业余爱好，并逐渐变得熟练地完成折变得非最复杂的折纸模型，但他从来没有设计过属于自己的作品。

In 2000 he encountered origami tessellation and was attracted immediately to its potential for complexity, savoring the pure mathematical regularity of tessellations.

在2000年，他看到镶嵌折纸，立即被其潜在的复杂性吸引，并开始研究镶嵌折纸中的纯数学规律。

He soon combined the techniques of origami tessellation with his background in sculpture to create a new style of folding complex masks from single pieces of paper.

他很快将镶嵌折纸与他的雕塑背景相结合来创造一种从一张纸折叠出复杂面具的新式折纸方式。

He has exhibited his works and shares them with others on his blog,   joelcooper.wordpress.com

他已在个人博客上展示，分享了自己的作品   joelcooper.wordpress.com

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Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine

埃里克·德尔曼和马丁•德尔曼

(b.1981 and 1942, Canadian American)

（生于1981年和1942年，美籍加拿大人）
Canadian-born Erik Demaine completed his Bachelor of Science degree by age 14 and his Ph.Dby age 20.

在加拿大出生的埃里克德尔曼在14岁时就取得了他的理学学士学位，又在20岁时取得博士学位。

His dissertation, a seminal work in the field of computational origami, received national awards and won him a MacArthur Fellowship.

他的论文《计算折纸领域的开创性工作》获得国家级嘉奖，他由此获得麦克阿瑟奖学金。

Since joining the MIT faculty in 2001, he has been the leading theoretician in computational origami, the study of what can be done with a folded sheet of paper, and he is exploring origami applications in architecture, robotics, and molecular biology.

在2001年加入麻省理工学院以来，他一直是领先的计算折纸理论家，他的研究仅仅是一张折叠的纸上展开，目前他正在研究折纸在建筑，机器人技术和分子生物学领域的应用。

Artistically, he collaborates with his artist father, Martin Demaine, to create “Curved-Crease” sculptures and other unconventional origami works.

艺术上，他与他的艺术家父亲，马丁·德尔曼创造利用“曲皱折”的雕塑和其他非传统的折纸作品。

His website is  erikdemaine.org

他网站是 erikdemaine.org

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Roman Diaz    罗马迪亚兹

  (b.1968, Uruguayan) （生于1968，乌拉圭）
Roman Diaz was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lived in Argentina, Honduras, and Mozambique as a child.

罗马迪亚兹出生在乌拉圭首都蒙得维的亚，幼年曾生活在阿根廷，洪都拉斯和莫桑比克。

During his travels Diaz occasionally experimented with origami.He returned to Uruguay, completed his studies and became a veterinarian.

在迪亚兹的旅途中，他偶然中尝试折纸。 然后他回到了乌拉圭，完成他的学业并成为一名兽医。

Fascinated by the possibilities of origami, he started designing his own models.

着迷于折纸的无限可能性，他开始设计自己的折纸模型。

By 2005 his designs of animals were attracting international attention.

直到2005年，他设计的动物引起了国际社会的关注。

Since then he has been a special guest at origami conventions in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, and Chile and has published two books.

自从那之后，他一直是法国，意大利，德国，西班牙和智利的折纸协会的特约专家，并已出版了两本书。