ETH Professor Kaijima receives Wolf Prize
Momoyo Kaijima has been awarded this year's Wolf Prize. The professor of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich received the award for her ethnographically inspired approach to architecture.
Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich ( ETH ), Momoyo Kaijima, and her partner Yoshiharu Tsukamoto have been awarded this year’s Wolf Prize for Architecture. Tsukamoto is a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Both run the Atelier Bow-Wow together. According to the ETH media release , the jury chose the works of both professors as prizewinners because of their great sensitivity to local contexts and the social effects of architecture.
The Wolf Prize has been awarded to scientists and artists by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation since 1978. Merits for the benefit of mankind and friendly relations between peoples are honored. According to the ETH announcement, former award winners in the architecture category include Frank O. Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Peter Eisenman and David Chipperfield. Momoyo Kaijima is only the third woman to receive the Wolf Prize for Architecture.
After various guest professorships. at Harvard University, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and Columbia University, among others, Momoyo Kaijima came to ETH Zurich in 2017, where she established the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology.