Riken Yamamoto


Riken Yamamoto, born 1945 Beijing, China is a Japanese architect. Yamamoto completed his bachelor's degree from Nihon University in 1967 and his master's degree from the Tokyo University of the Arts in 1971, after which he continued his studies at the University of Tokyo under Hiroshi Hara. He founded the Yamamoto & Field Shop Co.Ltd in 1973. Yamamoto was a professor at Yokohama National University from 2000 to 2011 and at the Graduate school of Engineering of the Nihon University. He currently teaches at his alma mater Nihon University. Some of his most representative works are the Rotunda Building ; the Hamlet Building, or the apartment blocks Ryukoentoshi Under the many awards Riken Yamamoto has won, the most recent achieved by him are: The Japan Institute of Architects Award for the Yokosuka Museum of Art Building Constractors Society Prize for the Namics Techno Core, Building Contractors Society Prize for the Yokosuka Museum of Art or the 25th Fukushima Architecture Culture Award, highest award for the Fukushima ecoms Pavillion, SUS Fukushima Factory.

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