swap_horiz Riken Yamamoto Alternatives

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Tadao Ando

Tadao Ando is a prominent contemporary architect recognized for his profoundly simple and spiritual designs. He primaril...

Contemporary Japanese Minimal Spiritual

9.5 Brilliant

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Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza is a Portuguese architect from Porto, awarded the 1992 Pritzker Prize for precise modernist works such as th...

Contemporary Minimal Contextual Portuguese

9.3 Excellent

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Fumihiko Maki

Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese modernist architect known for Hillside Terrace in Tokyo and 4 World Trade Center; he won th...

Japanese Modernist 20TH Century Institutional

9.1 Excellent

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Toyo Ito

Toyo Ito is a Japanese architect noted for fluid, technology-aware design, including Sendai Mediatheque, completed in Ja...

Lightweight Contemporary Cultural Japanese

9.0 Excellent

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Kazuyo Sejima

Kazuyo Sejima is a Japanese architect and SANAA co-founder who won the 2010 Pritzker Prize with Ryue Nishizawa.

Contemporary Transparent Japanese Minimal

9.0 Excellent

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Francis Kere

Francis Kere is a Burkinabe-German architect known for community-built schools and climate-sensitive design; he won the...

Contemporary Community Education Climate

9.0 Excellent

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Eduardo Souto de Moura

Eduardo Souto de Moura is a Portuguese architect, winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize and designer of Braga Municipal Stad...

Contemporary Minimal Stone Portuguese

8.9 Great

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Anne Lacaton

Anne Lacaton is a French architect and co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal, winner of the 2021 Pritzker Prize for adaptive...

French Contemporary Housing Reuse

8.8 Great

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Ryue Nishizawa

Ryue Nishizawa is a Japanese architect and SANAA co-founder who shared the 2010 Pritzker Prize for precise, light-filled...

Contemporary Transparent Japanese Minimal

8.7 Great

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Jean-Philippe Vassal

Jean-Philippe Vassal is a French architect and co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal, awarded the 2021 Pritzker Prize for reu...

French Contemporary Housing Reuse

8.7 Great

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Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect known for paper-tube structures and disaster relief shelters; he won the 2014 Pritzk...

Contemporary Sustainable Japanese Humanitarian

8.6 Great

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Kengo Kuma

Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for timber and light-filtering buildings, including Japan National Stadium for...

Contemporary Japanese Craft Texture

8.5 Great

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Marina Tabassum

Marina Tabassum is a Bangladeshi architect known for the Bait Ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, which won the Aga Khan Award for...

Contemporary Community Climate Mosque

8.4 Great

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Alejandro Aravena

Alejandro Aravena is a Chilean architect and 2016 Pritzker laureate, known for Elemental's incremental social housing su...

Contemporary Incremental Social Chilean

8.3 Great

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Sou Fujimoto

Sou Fujimoto is a Japanese architect known for porous, nature-like structures, including the 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pav...

Lightweight Contemporary Japanese Experimental

8.2 Great

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Thom Mayne

Thom Mayne is an American architect who co-founded Morphosis in 1972 and received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 200...

American Contemporary Institutional Morphosis

8.2 Great

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Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo is a Mexican architect whose 2018 Serpentine Pavilion in London made her the youngest designer in the pro...

Contemporary Cultural Minimal Mexican

8.1 Great

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Ralph Erskine

Ralph Erskine was a British-born architect active in Sweden, known for climate-aware housing and the Byker Wall redevelo...

Community Sweden 20TH Century Climate

8.0 Great

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Tatiana Bilbao

Tatiana Bilbao is a Mexican architect whose studio, founded in 2004, is noted for sustainable design and social housing...

Contemporary Social Landscape Mexican

8.0 Great

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Anna Heringer

Anna Heringer is a German architect noted for sustainable earthen construction, including the 2006 METI Handmade School...

German Contemporary Community Sustainable

7.9 Good