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Riken Yamamoto
Testing where private life meets a wider community.
Background & practice
Yamamoto’s practice developed around the social organisation of buildings. His account of growing up between a family home and a street-facing shop informed a sustained interest in the threshold between household and community. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2024.
How to read the work
Visibility, shared spaces and connections between occupants challenge the assumption that a building should be a self-contained private unit.
Professional recognition
2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
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