Statement
John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. After a period in the family textile business he moved to Japan, where he spent several years teaching English at the business university of Nagoya. Towards the end of his time in Japan, he moved to Tokyo, where he visited the studio of Japanese architect and designer Shiro Kuramata. On his return to England, Pawson enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981.