The Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was named the winner of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize, largely because of his work designing shelters after natural disasters in places like Rwanda, Turkey, India, China, Haiti and Japan.
“I’m trying to understand the meaning of this encouragement, it’s not the award for achievement. I have not made a great achievement” says the architects, known for making temporary housing out of transient materials like paper tubes and plastic beer crates.