Riken Yamamoto has been named the recipient of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yamamoto, whose offices are based in Japan, was honored for his ability to encourage community through the use of architecture, with the jury citing a talent for "blurring the public and private" through his work. Yamamoto was born in Beijing in 1945, but relocated to Yokohama, Japan shortly after the end of World War II. He lived with his mother inside a home that was based on a traditional Japanese machiya ...
Riken Yamamoto has been named the recipient of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yamamoto, whose offices are based in Japan, was honored for his ability to encourage community through the use of architecture, with the jury citing a talent for "blurring the public and private" through his work. Yamamoto was born in Beijing in 1945, but relocated to Yokohama, Japan shortly after the end of World War II. He lived with his mother inside a home that was based on a traditional Japanese machiya ...
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