Posted: 06/19/2012

The temporary housing was built just days after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. 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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