Riken Yamamoto is a Japanese architect based in Tokyo. He founded his architecture practice Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop in 1973 and has since then realized an important amount of built work mainly located in Japan. Riken spent lots of time discussing architecture with his friends Tadao Ando and Toyo Ito, but they also enjoy taking their minds off things sometimes by singing karaoke. A podcast about a life dedicated to architecture.

Riken Yamamoto's reading advice:

The space of power, the power of space. Designing the relationship between the individual and the state, Riken Yamamoto, 2015.

Hannah Arendt’s books.

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Interview by Roxane Le Grelle and Cyril Veillon.

Production: Archizoom / Art direction and editing: Marie Geiser / Jingle and music: Cédric Liard