Magazine

John Hill | 24.09.2025

Found

Riken Yamamoto Exhibition: Community and Architecture is on display until November 3rd at Yokosuka Museum of Art, which Riken Yamamoto designed in 2006 and is considered one of his masterpieces. The Japan-Architects curators visited the exhibition when it opened in July and took...


John Hill | 20.06.2025

Film

The latest architecture-related video from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel profiles Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate. Speaking in his Tokyo studio, Yamamoto speaks about his upbringing, education, influences, travels, and...


John Hill | 07.02.2025

Insight

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was named the 53rd laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in March 2024, and in May he received the medal during a ceremony held at the Art Institute of Chicago. World-Architects visited


John Hill | 09.05.2024

Film

Riken Yamamoto, recipient of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize, will present his laureate lecture, “Community: The Architect as Catalyst for Change,” at the Illinois Institute of Technology's S.R. Crown Hall in Chicago on Thursday, May 16. The lecture, followed by a panel discussion with...


John Hill | 05.03.2024

Headlines

Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been named the 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, long considered architecture's highest honor. Today's announcement says that Yamamoto, an “architect and social advocate,” is being given the Pritzker Prize “for reminding us that in...


John Hill | 01.12.2020

Headlines

Ten years in the making, The Circle at Zürich Airport, designed by Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto, is now open to the public — in the midst of a pandemic that has seen passenger traffic at the airport reduced by more than 80%.