The Pritzker Prize, the world's highest distinction in architecture, was awarded Tuesday to Japanese Riken Yamamoto. “For me, recognizing (the existence of a) space is a recognition of an entire community,” declared the winner born in 1945 in Beijing but who emigrated to Yokohama in Japan after the Second World War.
The majority of Yamamoto's works and architectural ensembles are located in Japan but also in Zurich, Switzerland and China. The winner succeeds the British David Chipperfield who was crowned after the Burkinabe architect Diébédo Francis Kéré.