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June 28, 2022
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June 23, 2022
Oviedo, Spain, Jun 23 (EFE).- Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was awarded Spain’s coveted Princess of Asturias Award for Concord on Thursday in recognition of his contribution to innovation and humanitarian causes. Ban, 64, is renowned for his use of sustainable materials such as paper and cardboard and for being the founder of the NGO Voluntary …
April 21, 2022
Shigeru Ban and the Voluntary Architects' Network are deploying a paper partition system (PPS) for emergency shelters in Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
March 24, 2022
Petitioners in the UK are bidding to have an early-career architectural worker elected as the next RIBA president as a change of direction for the 188-year-old organization which they charge as “losing touch with architects, students, and the next generation of talent.” In an open letter...
March 23, 2022
An open letter is has called for the next RIBA head to move beyond ‘empty slogans and self-serving initiatives’ and represent the early-career architects,
March 21, 2022
Shigeru Ban had been working with students from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology on the influx of Ukrainian refugees sheltering in a converted former supermarket in Chelm, Poland, where they were able to construct and install 319 privacy partitions over a four-day span. He now...
March 7, 2022
UN-Habitat, Shigeru Ban Architects, Philippe Monteil and the NGO Voluntary Architects Network, developed several shelter typologies for refugees in Kenya.
March 7, 2022
Pritzker Prize winning architect Shigeru Ban has signed an agreement with UN-Habitat, the United Nations agency tasked with guiding sustainable...
February 2, 2022
Under the plans, the AJ understands, the institute’s eight regional outposts could become three: RIBA North, Middle and South, with Wales and London
November 30, 2021
The only member of his family to attend university, Phil studied and graduated in architecture at UNSW. He traveled to Europe, worked briefly on the Barbican, but returned to Sydney when his father was ill, taking over his joinery shop. Phil married Freda, a designer, and belatedly started professional life in his early thirties. For the next 40 years he mostly practiced with only one assistant, and for over half that time it was the dedicated and highly talented Anna Bowen-James.