Posted: 06/19/2012

The shoe store’s gabled roof of paper tubes. Image: Sanchez y Montoro.

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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