Shigeru Ban – SpecNews

Famed architect Shigeru Ban builds quake-proof homes from rubble in Nepal

After the quakes hit Nepal, Ban said Nepali students in Tokyo and his friends around the world hastened to raise funds for his project.
Construction workers make the final touches to a prototype house of the Nepal House Project designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in Kathmandu October 15, 2015.
Renowned Japanese architect Shigeru Ban – who helped bring global attention to humanitarian architecture and continues to influence fellow architects and disaster-relief workers – devised a solution.
The prototype for his latest humanitarian housing project in Nepal consists of standard timber door frames joined together and reinforced with plywood.
His initial goal to build 30 homes in Phatakshila in the Sindhupalchok district in central Nepal in the coming months is moving forward.

Cameron Sinclair: I’m the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and I ran that for close to 14 years.
They’ve been snaked there, they’ve had a taste of humanitarian work and they would rather starve than work in an office.
“And I am never going to win the Pritzker Prize, I’m going to die happy knowing that.”
“I will never do a skyscraper in my life ever, I’m going to die happy knowing that,” said Sinclair.
Cameron Sinclair: It makes it hard to critique because I’m doing something similar.