Architect Riken Yamamoto wins the Pritzker Prize 2024

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was awarded the Pritzker Prize 2024 on Tuesday, March 5. At 78 years of age, he has won the 53rd edition of the competition for remembering that in architecture as in democracy “spaces must be created by the will of the people”. Yamamoto was born in Beijing in 1945 and settled in the Japanese city of Yokohama.

In his works predominates the “kinship between the public and the private”, as well as a commitment to the relationship between housing and neighbors. His projects incorporate community ties, so that residents living alone do not feel isolated. In his architectural works he unites cultures and stories of people from different generations. With great modernist ambience, Yamamoto inspires “harmonious societies despite the diversity of identities, economies, policies, infrastructures and housing systems”.

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