Shigeru Ban Wins Architecture's Top Award

Co.Design sat down with the 2014 Pritzker Prize Laureate, a Japanese architect renown for his humanitarian work and inventive use of recycled materials.

Shigeru Ban has earned international acclaim for repurposing inexpensive materials to build cheap housing in communities struck by catastrophe. His pioneering technique of building with tubes of paper has been instrumental in sheltering refugees from natural as well as man-made disasters in places like Rwanda, India, Japan. Today, Ban becomes the latest recipient of the most prestigious award in architecture, the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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