Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, 78, won the Pritzker Prize 2024, considered the Nobel Prize for architecture, now in its 53rd edition (last year, the prize was awarded to David Chipperfield). The ninth Japanese to receive this recognition, he will be awarded in Chicago in the spring.
The reasons for the award cite “its extraordinary normality in representing the dignity of everyday life”; his ability to question the discipline of architecture “to calibrate every architectural response” is also remembered and he is praised “for having reminded us that in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created by the will of the people”.
The works built by Yamamoto are located in Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea and Switzerland, where he designed The Circle Convention Center in Zurich, and include private residences, public housing, elementary schools, university buildings, institutional headquarters, civic spaces and urban planning.
Following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, he founded the Local Area Republic Labo, a research institute committed to community engagement through architectural design, and in 2018 launched the Local Republic Award, which recognizes young architects that shape the future.
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– 2024-03-16 09:49:10
