On June 13, Shigeru Ban receives the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize in front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation and sponsor of the prize, decorated the Japanese architect personally.
Shigeru Ban, a Tokyo-born, 56-year-old architect with offices in Tokyo, Paris and New York, is rare in the field of architecture. He designs elegant, innovative work for private clients, and uses the same inventive and resourceful design approach for his extensive humanitarian efforts.
For twenty years Ban has travelled to sites of natural and man-made disasters around the world, to work with local citizens, volunteers and students, to design and construct simple, dignified, low-cost, recyclable shelters and community buildings for the disaster victims.
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