Riken Yamamoto, who designs dignity and elegance into daily life, wins Pritzker Prize
Yamamoto's postwar childhood in Japan shaped his interest in the interplay of architecture and community. The jury of the prestigious architecture award cited the intergenerational power of his work.
The bespectacled architect smiled from his white-walled office in Yokohama.
"I'm very proud," he said in English, of winning the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Sometimes called "the Nobel of architecture," the award has gone to such icons in the field as Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei, Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas and Zaha Hadid since it was established in 1979.
Japanese architect was born in 1945 to civilian parents
