THE PRITZKER PRIZE
In April each year, The Pritzker Architecture Prize announces the Laureate of its award.
The award was established by Jay and Cindy Pritker and their family in 1979, and has now spanned over four decades. Both Jay and Cindy appreciated architecture and the built environment, and wanted 'to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.'
The Pritker Architecture Prize is sponsored by The Hyatt Foundation, and recipients of the award receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and a bronze medallion inspired by the work of Chicago architect Louis Sullivan and the inscription of ancient Roman architect Vitruvius 'firmness, commodity and delight'.
Inaugural Laureate of The Pritzker Prize was architect Philip Johnson. Winners of the prize have included architects from countries worldwide 'irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology'. Their work has been varied, with some recipients designing residential, commercial and educational projects. Winners of the prize have produced built works in conjunction with publications, academic work, competitions, and media.
Photos: MPavilion 2019, Glenn Murcutt Architect, Melbourne Australia.
Image by Studio OneOne
The Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates:
2020 - Yvonne Farrell (1951 - ) and Shelley McNamara (1952 - ), Grafton Architects, Ireland
2019 - Arata Isozaki (1931 - ), Japan
2018 - Balkrishna Doshi (1927 - ), Vastu Shilpa Consultants, India
2017 - Rafael Aranda (1961 - ), Carme Pigem (1962 - ), Ramon Vilalta (1960 - ), RCR Arquitectes, Spain
2016 - Alejandro Aravena (1967 - ), Elemental S.A., Chile
2015 - Frei Otto (1925 - 2015), Germany
2014 - Shigeru Ban (1957 - ), Shigeru Ban Architects, Japan
2013 - Toyo Ito (1941 - ), Toyo Ito & Associates, Japan
2012 - Wang Shu (1963 - ), China
2011 - Eduardo Souto de Moura (1952 - ), Portugal
2010 - Kazuyo Sejima (1956 - ) & Ryue Nishizawa (1966 - ),Sejima & Nishizawa & Associates
(SANAA), Japan
2009 - Peter Zumthor (1943 - ), Switzerland
2008 - Jean Nouvel (1945 - ), Ateliers Jean Nouvel, France
2007 - Richard Rogers (1933 - ), Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), Italy, UK
2006 - Paulo Mendes da Rocha, (1928 - ), Brazil
2005 - Thom Mayne (1944 - ), Morphosis Architects, US
2004 - Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016), Zaha Hadid Architects, Iraq, UK
2003 - Jorn Utzon (1918 - 2008), Denmark
2002 - Glenn Murcutt (1936 - ), Australia
2001 - Jaques Hetzog (1950 - ) and Pierre de Meuron (1950 - ), Herzog & de Meuron, Switzerland
2000 - Rem Koolhaus, (1944 - ), Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Netherlands
1999 - Norman Foster (1935 - ), Foster and Partners, UK
1998 - Renzo Piano (1937 - ), RPBW Architects, Italy
1997 - Sverne Fenn (1924 - 2009), Norway
1996 - Rafael Moneo (1937 - ), Spain
1995 - Tadao Ando (1941 - ), Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, Japan
1994 - Christian de Portzamparc, (1944 - ), France
1993 - Fumihiko Maki, (1928 - ), Maki and Associates, Japan
1992 - Alvaro Siza (1933 - ), Portugal
1991 - Robert Venturi (1925 - 2018), Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, US
1990 - Aldo Rossi (1931 - 1997), Italy
1989 - Frank Gehry (1929 - ), Gehry Partners, Canada, US
1988 - Gordon Bunshaft (1909 - 1990), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Brazil
1988 - Oscar Niemeyer (1907 - 2012), US
1987 - Kenzo Tange (1913 - 2005), Japan
1986 - Gottfried Bohm (1920 - ), Germany
1985 - Hans Hollein (1934 - 2014), Austrai
1984 - Richard Meier (1934 - ), Richard Meier & Partners, US
1983 - I.M. (Ieoh Ming) Pei, (1917 - 2019), I. M. Pei & Partners, US
1982 - Kevin Roche (1922 - 2019), Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, Ireland, US
1981 - James Stirling (1926 - 1992), UK
1980 - Luis Barragan (1902 - 1988), Mexico
1979 - Philip Johnson (1906 - 2005), US
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