Shigeru Ban

Famous for paper-tube structures used in disaster relief — Kobe (1995), L'Aquila (2009), Christchurch transitional cathedral (2013). Permanent works include the Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010), Aspen Art Museum (2014), and the Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre (2017).

Material reuse and humanitarian application of design intelligence. His paper-tube emergency shelters are deployed alongside major-museum commissions — the same office, the same rigour.

Pritzker laureate 2014. Voluntary Architects' Network — his pro-bono disaster-response practice — has worked across two dozen post-disaster sites.