Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been named 2019 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award.
He is the 46th recipient of the Pritzker Prize, and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honour.
Pritzker Prize
Pritzker Prize is an annual award to honour a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment.
The award constituted by Pritzker family of Chicago through Hyatt Foundation in 1979.
It is often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honour.”
Earlier awardees of the coveted prize include India’s Balkrishna Doshi, Jorn Utzon who designed the Sydney Opera House.