Once upon a time there was a picket fence: Riken Yamamoto receives the Pritzker Prize for his ability to shape not just spaces, but society. Good this way!
It is not disrespectful if you are told that the prize is worth 100,000 dollars Pritzker Prize This Tuesday the poem “The Picket Fence” by Christian Morgenstern comes to mind. That is praise. This praise goes to a master of the gap and, according to the jury, “everyday poetry”: The 78-year-old Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto receives the award, which has been presented annually since 1979 and is considered the Nobel Prize in architecture, for his efforts to create the sphere that not only consists of architectural, i.e. concrete structural, spaces, but also of social, i.e. intellectual spaces. Which leads back to the picket fence poem and the importance of very real spaces.