Shigeru Ban
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Biography:
Shigeru Ban, born in Tokyo in 1957, was graduated from the Cooper Union. He started working for Arata Isozaki & Associates in 1982 and founded Shigeru Ban Architects in 1985. He became a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in 1995 and established the NGO, Voluntary Architects’ Network (VAN) in the same year to support disaster relief.
His selected works include Nicolas G. Hayek Center, Centre Pompidou- Metz, and Oita Prefecture Art Museum. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including Grande Médaille d'Or de l’Académie architecture (2004), Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture (2005), Grand Prize of AIJ (2009), Honorary Doctorate from Technische Universität München (2009), Auguste Perret Prize (2011), Art Prize from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs (2012). Shigeru Ban Served as a professor at Keio University (2001-2008), Visiting Professor of Harvard University GSD and Cornell University (2010), currently Professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design (2011-)and Guest Professor at Keio University (2015-). He is the laureate of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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