Shigeru Ban
From Asian Art Documentation
Ban Shigeru (b.1957, Tokyo, Japan)
坂 茂
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[edit] About
Shigeru Ban was born in 1957 in Tokyo, Japan. After completing his studies in 1984 at the Cooper Union School of Architecture, Ban went on to establish his private practice in Tokyo. His work is well known for linking natural and built environments; and for its economic use of resources.
In 1995, he established his own NGO to assist disaster victims and refugees – the Volunteer Architects’ Network (VAN) which is still active in international relief efforts. From 1985 to 2000, he was the consultant of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and oversaw a project that created emergency housing from paper tubes for victims of the Rwandan civil war – designs that were redeployed for victims of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan.
BAN was recently awarded the RIBA International Fellowship.
[edit] Education
1984 Received Bachelor of Architecture from Cooper Union
[edit] Biography
1985
- Established private practice in Tokyo
1993-95
- Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Tama Art University
1995-00
- Consultant of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
1995
- Established NGO (VAN)
1995-99
- Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Yokohama National University
1996-00
- Adjunct Professor of Architecture at Nihon University
2000
- Visiting Professor of Columbia University
2000
- Visiting Fellow of Donald Keen Center, Columbia University
2001
- Professor of Keio University
- Time Magazine Innovator of the Year
- World Architecture Awards: Europe Category, Public/Cultural Category for the Japan Pavilion
2003
- La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2005
- The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture.
- The MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
2006
- The RIBA International Fellowship (ROYAL Institute of British Architects)
