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John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. After a period in the family textile business he left for Japan, where he lived for a number of years. Following his return to England, he enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981. From the outset his work has focused on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials. Whilst private houses have remained a consistent strand of the work, subsequent projects have spanned a wide range of scales and building typologies, from the prize-winning Sackler Crossing, a flagship store for Calvin Klein and major commissions for Ian Schrager, to ballet sets, yacht interiors and a new Cistercian monastery in Bohemia, for which he received an international award for sacred architecture. The practice is currently involved in the creation of a new permanent home for the Design Museum in London.