Pritzker Prize Awarded to Japanese Architect for Sacred Minimalism

The Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to a Japanese architect whose forty-year body of work is characterised by an almost total renunciation of the decorative and unwavering commitment to light, silence and material truth.

The prize committee described her buildings as “spaces of profound stillness, achieved through the most economical means.”

“A building that calls attention to itself has already failed,” she said. “Architecture succeeds when it disappears into the background of a life being well lived.”