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Pritzker 2014 goes to Shigeru Ban
Jun13

Pritzker 2014 goes to Shigeru Ban

The 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize has gone to Shigeru Ban, celebrated for his fusion of contemporary architecture with humanitarian values and innovative use of everyday and found materials. Ban, 56, professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design, will receive the award, often equated with the Nobel Prize in the field of architecture, at a ceremony 13 June 2014 at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Kyoto University said the award...

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Handkerchiefs from Tohoku children
Feb11

Handkerchiefs from Tohoku children

Yasashii Hankachi: Gentle Heart Project / Handkerchiefs for Tohoku Children, at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House galleries, is a creative response by children and collaborative designers in Japan to the devastation left by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in the Tohoku (northeast) area of Japan, in which more than 18,000 people lost their lives and many more faced the difficulties of being relocated, leaving a strong impact on local...

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Four Living Treasures of Japan

Exemplary work of four of Japan’s greatest living artists is presented in a Fine Art Society exhibition in London. The latest in the gallery’s series of homages to the arts of Japan, a series which stretches back to the 1880s, the exhibition presents the work of Jun Isezaki, Kunihiko Moriguchi, Kazumi Murose and Noboru Fujinuma. Living National Treasure is the popular term for Important Intangible Cultural Property, an individual so...

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