Why did Shigeru Ban win the Pritzker prize?
For applying design innovation to pressing need, and for using modest materials such as cardboard and paper in ground-breaking ways, Ban has been named the winner of the 2014 Pritzker Prize.
Did Bjarke Ingels win a Pritzker Prize?
Inspired by 2021 Pritzker Winner, Bjarke Ingels Renounces New Construction. News that BIG will no longer design new buildings shocks the architecture profession.
Who started the Pritzker prize?
Jay A. Pritzker
Jay A. Pritzker, (1922-1999), founded the prize with his wife, Cindy.
Who will win 2021 Pritzker?
Anne Lacaton
The Pritzker Architecture Award for 2021 has been awarded to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, a French architecture duo who has taught the world to design projects based on insightful thinking and creative designing through sustainable approaches.
Who is the Pritzker prize named after?
The prize takes its name from the Pritzker family, whose international business interests are headquartered in Chicago. Their name is synonymous with Hyatt Hotels located throughout the world. The Pritzkers have long been known for their support of educational, scientific, medical, and cultural activities.
What is the Pritzker Architecture Prize?
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is known as the Nobel Prize for architects. Each year it is awarded to professionals—an individual or team—who have made important contributions to the field of architecture and design.
Who is the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize?
The Iraqi-born British architect was the first woman to win a Pritzker Prize. Juror and architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable said: “Hadid’s fragmented geometry and fluid mobility do more than create an abstract, dynamic beauty; this is a body of work that explores and expresses the world we live in.”
Should Robert Venturi have won the Pritzker Prize with Denise Scott Brown?
American architect Robert Venturi designs buildings steeped in popular symbolism. Mocking the austerity of modernist architecture, Venturi is famous for saying, “Less is a bore.” Many critics say that Venturi’s Pritzker Prize should have been shared with his business partner and wife, Denise Scott Brown. The Pritzker jury said:
Who is the first Pritzker Laureate from India?
Balkrishna Doshi, the first Pritzker Laureate from India studied in Bombay, today’s Mumbai, and furthered his studies in Europe, working with Le Corbusier in the 1950s, and in America with Louis Kahn in the 1960s. His modernist designs and work with concrete were influenced by these two architects.