Ever since the Great Exhibition opened its doors in London 174 years ago, the World’s Fair has offered nations a chance to show off the greatest inventions of the age. But Expos of recent decades have ...
Riken Yamamoto has been announced as 2024 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In its citation, the jury praised the 78-year-old Japanese architect, educator, and social advocate for producing ...
Dec. 12—A renowned Japanese architect has brought an example of a quick-build home for displaced fire survivors to Maui. A renowned Japanese architect has brought an example of a quick-build home for ...
Japan has one of the world’s most admired architectural traditions, one that has influenced Western artists and architects from the mid-19th century to the present. But at home Japanese architects ...
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, whose projects explore connections between natural and man-made systems, said the world should limit new construction to reduce the climate impact of the built ...
Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker-winning Japanese architect known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs, has died of old age. He was 91. Isozaki died ...
TOKYO (AP) — A new generation of Japanese architects is scoring success by reinterpreting the past. Unlike their predecessors, who modernized Japan with Western-style edifices, they talk of fluidly ...
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to Japan’s Riken Yamamoto, who earns the field’s highest honor for what organizers called a long career focused on “multiplying opportunities for ...
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Sendai Mediatheque, Miyagi, Japan (1995-2001); left: exterior view; right: detail of interior support tube (photos ©Naoya Hatakeyama, courtesy of The Museum of ...
TOKYOTOKYO — Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West, has died. He was 95. Maki, who taught ...