When Tokyo-based architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban left Japan for a quick trip to the United States in early March, little did he know that only days later he’d wind up in Poland. But ...

When the Japanese architect Shigeru Ban watched the searing images of Ukrainians fleeing their homes as war arrived at their doorsteps, he recognized a humanitarian crisis he had seen before: ...

TOKYO — Internationally renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban is setting up partitions made from paper and cloth to provide a comforting, private space for Ukrainian refugees living in shelters. “I ...

Pritzker Prize-winner Shigeru Ban has joined the disaster relief effort in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, personally setting up his Paper Partition System for evacuees. The Japanese architect joined the ...