The Japanese architect speaks to RECORD about the importance of community as a social construct and as the driving force of his architectural design over five decades of practice.
The jury praised the Yokohama-based architect for “reminding us that in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created by the resolve of the people.”
In May, two exhibitions opened exploring the decades-long careers of British starchitect Norman Foster and late Brazilian modernist Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
The impact of architecture is expressed in the selection of this year’s Pritzker laureate and in the most familiar of places, the home, as seen in this year’s Record Houses selection.
Heralded for his “subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant” work, the 52nd Pritzker laureate is the first British architect to be awarded the prize since Richard Rogers in 2007.
