ThePritzker Architecture Prize is an international award presented annually "to honor a livingarchitect 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." Founded in 1979 byJay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by thePritzker family and sponsored by theHyatt Foundation. It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes, and is oftenreferred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.[1][2][3][4][5]
Pritzker Architecture Prize | |
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Current:Liu Jiakun | |
![]() Medal of the Pritzker Architecture Prize | |
Awarded for | A career of achievement in the art ofarchitecture |
Sponsored by | Hyatt Foundation |
Reward(s) | US$100,000 |
First award | 1979; 46 years ago (1979) |
Website | www |
Criteria and proceedings
editThe Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury says it is awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology".[6] The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and, since 1987, a bronze medallion.[1] The designs on the medal are inspired by the work of architectLouis Sullivan, while the Latin inspired inscription on the reverse of the medallion—firmitas, utilitas, venustas (English:firmness, commodity and delight)—is fromAncient Roman architectVitruvius. Before 1987, a limited editionHenry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize.[1]
The executive director of the prize, Manuela Lucá-Dazio,[7] solicits nominations from a range of people, including past Laureates, academics, critics and others "with expertise and interest in the field of architecture".[6] Any licensed architect can also make a personal application for the prize before November 1 every year. (In 1988Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it.)[8] The jury, consisting of five to nine "experts ... recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture", deliberates and early in the following year announce the winner.[6] The prize chair is the 2016 Pritzker laureateAlejandro Aravena; earlier chairs wereJ. Carter Brown (1979–2002), theLord Rothschild (2003–2004), theLord Palumbo (2005–2015),Glenn Murcutt (2016–2018) andStephen Breyer (2019–2020).[9]
Laureates
editInaugural winnerPhilip Johnson was cited "for 50 years of imagination and vitality embodied in a myriad of museums, theaters, libraries, houses, gardens and corporate structures".[10] The 2004 laureateZaha Hadid was the first female prize winner.[11]Ryue Nishizawa became the youngest winner in 2010 at age 44.[12] Partners in architecture (in 2001,Jacques Herzog andPierre de Meuron, in 2010,Kazuyo Sejima andRyue Nishizawa, in 2020,Yvonne Farrell andShelley McNamara, and in 2021,Anne Lacaton andJean-Philippe Vassal) have shared the award.[13] In 1988,Gordon Bunshaft andOscar Niemeyer were both separately honored with the award.[14] The 2017 winners, architectsRafael Aranda [ca],Carme Pigem, andRamón Vilalta [es;pt] were the first group of three to share the prize.[15][16]
Table notes
edit- A. a Roche was born in Ireland.[61]
- B. b Pei was born in China.[62]
- C. c Gehry was born in Canada.[63]
- D. d Hadid was born in Iraq.[64]
- E. e Rogers was born in Italy into an Anglo-Italian family.[65]
- F. † Posthumous award.
- G. g Ceremony held online due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.
- H. h Kéré was born in Burkina Faso.[66]
- I. i Yamamoto was born in China to Japanese parents while it was underJapanese occupation.[67]
Criticism
editIn 2013, the student organization "Women in Design" at theHarvard Graduate School of Design started a petition arguingDenise Scott Brown should receive joint recognition with her partner,Robert Venturi, who won the award in 1991.[68] The petition, according toThe New York Times, "reignited long-simmering tensions in the architectural world over whether women have been consistently denied the standing they deserve in a field whose most prestigious award was not given to a woman until 2004, whenZaha Hadid won".[69] Scott Brown toldCNN that "as a woman, she had felt excluded by the elite of architecture throughout her career," and that "the Pritzker Prize was based on the fallacy that great architecture was the work of a 'single lone male genius' at the expense of collaborative work."[70] Responding to the petition, the 2013 prize jury said that it cannot revisit the decisions of past juries, either in the case of Scott Brown or that ofLu Wenyu, whose husbandWang Shu won in 2012.[71] The 2020 Pritzker jury said in its citation awarding the prize toYvonne Farrell andShelley McNamara – making them the fourth and fifth women to ever be awarded the prize – that they were, "pioneers in a field that has traditionally been and still is a male-dominated profession [and] beacons to others as they forge their exemplary professional path."[72]
See also
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General
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