Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto was declared winner of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yamamoto is the ninth laureate from Japan. Architects from Japan have won the largest number of Pritzkers.
- It is the highest international award in the Architecture field, which is sometimes referred to as the “Architecture Nobel”.
- The prize has been awarded every year since its founding in 1979.
- The Pritzker Architecture Prize was instituted by Jay A Pritzker, the late founder of the Hyatt Hotels chain, and his wife Cindy.
- The award comes with a purse of $100,000, a citation, and a bronze medallion. The only Indian to win this award is the late Balkrishna Doshi (2018).
