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Riken Yamamoto was born on 1945 in Beijing, China, is a Japanese architect. Discover Riken Yamamoto's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
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Born 1945
Birthday 1945
Birthplace Beijing, China
Nationality China

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1945

Riken Yamamoto (山本理顕), born 1945 in Beijing, China is a Japanese architect.

In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor.

Yamamoto was born to Japanese parents in Beijing, China.

His parents had moved from Japan to China for his father's work as an engineer.

1947

In 1947, the family returned to a Japan devastated by World War II.

1949

In 1949, after his father's death when he was four, Yamamoto moved to his mother's hometown of Yokohama.

1967

In 1967 he completed his bachelor's degree from Nihon University and in 1971 his master's degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts.

Afterwards he continued his studies at the University of Tokyo under Hiroshi Hara.

1973

Yamamoto founded the Yamamoto & Field Shop Co.Ltd in 1973.

1981

Some of his most representative works are the Rotunda Building (Yokohama, 1981); the Hamlet Building (Tokio, Shibuya-Ku, 1988), or the apartment blocks Ryukoentoshi (Yokohama, 1992).

2000

From 2000 to 2011 he was a professor at Yokohama National University and at the Graduate school of Engineering of the Nihon University.

2010

Under the many awards Riken Yamamoto has won, the most recent achieved by him are: The Japan Institute of Architects Award for the Yokosuka Museum of Art (2010) Building Contractors Society Prize for the Namics Techno Core (2010), Building Contractors Society Prize for the Yokosuka Museum of Art (2008) or the 25th Fukushima Architecture Culture Award, highest award for the Fukushima ecoms Pavilion, SUS Fukushima Factory (2007).

In 2024, Yamamoto was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

On the occasion, architect and Jury Chair Alejandro Aravena stated about Yamamoto's work that "one of the things we need most in the future of cities is to create conditions through architecture that multiply the opportunities for people to come together and interact. By carefully blurring the boundary between public and private, Yamamoto contributes positively beyond the brief to enable community. He is a reassuring architect who brings dignity to everyday life. Normality becomes extraordinary. Calmness leads to splendor."

2015

As of 2015 he taught at his alma mater Nihon University.