JUNYA ISHIGAMI is winner of the 13th Austrian Frederick Kiesler-Prize of Architecture and the Arts 2024.

The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation is delighted to announce that Japanese architect Junya Ishigami has been awarded the Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art, one of the most highly endowed international prizes in this field.

For Ishigami, architecture is an open field of infinite possibilities that extends into every area of life, raises all the essential questions, and should be considered from a perspective that is as scientific as it is artistic. Apparently liberated from the rules and constraints of architecture, Ishigami predominantly finds the context for his projects in nature. And he has a continuing focus on the reinterpretation of the boundary between landscape and architecture. His conceptual thinking is shaped by an urge to interweave architecture with the “natural” and to stretch the existing frontiers between design, architecture, and the environment. With his visionary designs, whose aesthetic is characterized by their concentration, transparency, and simplicity, Ishigami is embarking upon a holistic search for an architecture for the future, in which the life of society is structured according to organic principles.

Ishigami’s major projects include KAIT Workshop for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology (Atsugi/Japan, 2008); the House of Peace in Copenhagen (Denmark, 2014); the Chapel of the Valley in Shandong (China, 2016); the Art Biotop Water Garden (Tochigi/Japan, 2018); and his pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery (London/England, 2019).

Further events:

Award Ceremony
Monday, June 17, 2024, 6 p.m.
Otto Wagner Postsparkasse
🠒 Link to invitation

Kiesler-Lecture
by Junya Ishigami
Tuesday, June 18, 2024, 7 p.m.
Architekturzentrum Wien