John Pawson
London, Vereinigtes Königreich

Tokyo, where he visited the studio of Japanese architect and designer Shiro Kuramata.

Following his return to England, he enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981.
From the outset

the work focused on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials, rather than on developing a set of stylistic mannerisms -
themes he also explored in his book Minimum,
first published in 1996, which exam

ines the notion of simplicity in art, architecture and design across a variety of historical and cultural contexts.

Early commissions included homes for the writer Bruce Chatwin, opera director Pierre Audi and collector Doris Lockhart Saatchi,

together with art galleries in London, Dublin and New York. Subsequent projects have spanned a wide range of scales and building typologies, from Calvin Klein's flagship store in Manhattan and airport lounges for Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong to the ne

w Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of Novy Dvur in Bohemia. The Sackler Crossing - a walkway over the lake at Kew's Royal Botanic Gardens - opened to the public earlier this year.