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    Oct 04, 2019 4 minutes

    here are some things you should know about Shigeru Ban. As a boy, he wanted to become a carpenter. In 1985, just a year after graduating from the School of Architecture at Cooper Union in New York, he opened his own practice in Tokyo. He has an affinity for the works of Alvar Aalto, the great Finnish modernist and a pioneer of sustainable architecture. Ban’s now famous use of paper and cardboard tubing to create quick and effective housing for disaster victims in places like India, Rwanda, and New Zealand began with his design for an Aalto exhibition in Tokyo in 1986. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2014, at the age of 56. He doesn’t like waste. He only wears black.

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