Riken yamamoto biography of martin luther
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Riken Yamamoto
Japanese architect
Riken Yamamoto (山本理顕, Yamamoto Riken), born 1945 in Beijing, China[1][2] is a Japanese architect.
In 2024, he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize,[3] considered to be the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the 9th Japanese architect to receive such honor. [4][5]
Early life and education
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 as part of the Japanese occupation of China.[6] In 1947, the family returned to a Japan devastated by World War II. In 1949, after his father's death when he was four, Yamamoto moved to his mother's hometown of Yokohama.[6]
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.[6] Afterwards he continued his studies at the University of Tokyo u