Posted: 06/19/2012

Interior of shipping-container temporary housing with paper tubes. Image: Hiroyuki Hirai.

10 Questions with Shigeru Ban

Interior Design Hall of Fame member Shigeru Ban is nonstop. He shuttles between offices in Tokyo, Paris, and New York, and project sites as far-flung as New Zealand, Indonesia, and Colorado—all the while raising disaster-relief funds for the earthquake and tsunami that hit northeast Japan in March 2011 and supervising the Voluntary Architects’ Network, which he founded in 1995. +read article

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