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Architect Ban awarded 2014 Pritzker prize

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Shigeru Ban, an architect who has combined a talent for innovative design and experimental use of everyday materials with extensive humanitarian efforts around the globe, has won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Ban, 56, is the seventh architect from Japan to receive the honor, which will be officially awarded in June. For two decades, he has rushed to the sites of disasters such as the 1995 Kobe earthquake to construct temporary relief shelters. He often uses cardboard paper tubes as building materials. (AP)

日本人建築家坂茂さん、プリツカー賞受賞

「建築のノーベル賞」とも呼ばれるプリツカー建築賞の受賞者に、建築家で京都造形芸術大教授の坂茂さんが決まったと、主催する米ハイアット財団が３月24日に発表した。

The Japan Times ST: April 4, 2014