President Maduro received Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto at the Miraflores Palace

Published at: 25/02/2025 09:30 PM

This Tuesday, February 25, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, received the Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto at the Miraflores Palace, where they shared the experiences of the important architect, in order to continue uniting cultural ties between the two nations.

During the meeting, held in the Simon Bolivar Hall, the head of state shared with Yamamoto and his delegation, various impressions regarding architecture and culture in general.

Riken Yamamoto, of Japanese parents, was born in Beijing, China, on April 15, 1945, and is a Japanese architect. On March 5, 2024, he received the Pritzker Prize and is considered the most prestigious award in architecture, becoming the ninth Japanese architect to receive this honor.

During his university years, he opted for Architecture, studying first at Nihon University, where he graduated in 1967, and later expanded his studies in Tokyo.

In 1973, he established his first studio, Yamamoto & Field Shop Co. Ltd, where he began to develop projects, starting with a residential scale, up to large equipment complexes.

His works are characterized by generating relationships between users, ensuring that they do not isolate themselves from each other. It pursues the union of cultures and stories of people from different generations.

In 2024, he won the Pritzker Prize “for raising awareness in the community about what is the responsibility of social demand, for questioning the discipline of architecture, for calibrating each individual architectural response and, above all, for reminding us that in architecture, as in democracy, spaces must be created taking into account the will of the people”.

Mazo News Team