You probably know by now that Shigeru Ban has won this year's Pritzker Prize, but did you know he almost went to university to play rugby? Or that he constructed his home without pulling down a single tree? These and many more fun facts on the 38th Pritzker laureate, after the break.
1. He thinks the most useful product ever invented is the pencil.
2. After he saw photographs of the plastic sheets given to shelter refugees in Rwanda in 1994, he approached the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and proposed his idea for low-cost structures made from paper tubes.
