Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international award presented annually "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". Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation. It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes, and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

Criteria and proceedings The Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury says it is awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology". The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and, since 1987, a bronze medallion. The designs on the medal are inspired by the work of architect Louis Sullivan, while the Latin inspired inscription on the reverse of the medallion—firmitas, utilitas, venustas (English: firmness, commodity and delight)—is from Ancient Roman architect Vitruvius. Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize.

The executive director of the prize, Manuela Lucá-Dazio, solicits nominations from a range of people, including past Laureates, academics, critics and others "with expertise and interest in the field of architecture". Any licensed architect can also make a personal application for the prize before November 1 every year. (In 1988 Gordon Bunshaft nominated himself for the award and eventually won it.) 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. The prize chair is the 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena; earlier chairs were J. Carter Brown (1979–2002), the Lord Rothschild (2003–2004), the Lord Palumbo (2005–2015), Glenn Murcutt (2016–2018) and Stephen Breyer (2019–2020).

Laureates

Inaugural winner Philip Johnson was cited "for 50 years of imagination and vitality embodied in a myriad of museums, theaters, libraries, houses, gardens and corporate structures". The 2004 laureate Zaha Hadid was the first female prize winner. Ryue Nishizawa became the youngest winner in 2010 at age 44. Partners in architecture (in 2001, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, in 2010, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, in 2020, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, and in 2021, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal) have shared the award. In 1988, Gordon Bunshaft and Oscar Niemeyer were both separately honored with the award. The 2017 winners, architects , Carme Pigem, and were the first group of three to share the prize.

+ Pritzker Architecture Prize winners Year Laureate(s) Nationality Photo Example work (year completed) Award ceremony location Ref. 1979 United States Glass House (1949) Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC 1980 Mexico Cuadra San Cristóbal (1968) Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC 1981 United Kingdom Seeley Historical Library (1968) National Building Museum, Washington DC 1982 IrelandUnited States Ford Foundation Building (1967) Art Institute of Chicago 1983 United States National Gallery of Art, East Building (1978) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 1984 United States High Museum of Art (1983) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1985 Austria Abteiberg Museum (1982) The Huntington Library, San Marino, California 1986 Germany(West Germany) Church of the Pilgrimage (1968)Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, London 1987 Japan St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo (1964) Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1988 (shared prize) United States Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (1963) Art Institute of Chicago (shared prize) Brazil Cathedral of Brasília (1958) 1989 CanadaUnited States Gehry Residence (1978) Tōdai-ji, Nara, Japan 1990 Italy San Cataldo Cemetery (1978)Palazzo Grassi, Venice 1991 United States National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing (1991) Palace of Iturbide, Mexico City 1992 Portugal Leça Swimming Pools (1966) Harold Washington Library, Chicago 1993 Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (1991) Prague Castle 1994 France City of Music (1995) The Commons, Columbus, Indiana 1995 Japan Church of the Light (1989) Petit Trianon, Versailles 1996 Spain National Museum of Roman Art (1986) Getty Center, Los Angeles 1997 Norway Norwegian Glacier Museum (1991) Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 1998 Italy Kansai International Airport (1994) White House, Washington DC 1999 United Kingdom HSBC Building (1985) Altes Museum, Berlin 2000 Netherlands Kunsthal (1992) Jerusalem Archaeological Park 2001 Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron Switzerland Tate Modern (2000) Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia 2002 Australia Berowra Waters Inn (1983) Campidoglio, Rome 2003 Denmark Sydney Opera House (1973) Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid 2004 IraqUnited Kingdom Bergisel Ski Jump (2003) Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg 2005 United States Caltrans District 7 Headquarters (2004) Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago 2006 Brazil Saint Peter Chapel, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo (1987) Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul 2007 ItalyUnited Kingdom Lloyd's building (1986) Banqueting House, Whitehall, London 2008 France Torre Agbar (2005) Library of Congress, Washington DC 2009 Switzerland Therme Vals (1996) Legislative Palace of the City Council, Buenos Aires 2010 and Ryue Nishizawa Japan 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2003) Ellis Island, New York City 2011 Portugal Estádio Municipal de Braga (2004) Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Washington DC 2012 Wang Shu China Ningbo Museum (2008) Great Hall of the People, Beijing 2013 Japan Sendai Mediatheque (2001) John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston 2014 Japan Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 2015 Germany Olympic Stadium, Munich (1972) New World Center, Miami Pritzker Prize for Frei Otto, German Architect, Announced After His Death , Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, March 10, 2015 2016 Chile Siamese Towers, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2005) United Nations Headquarters, New York City 2017 , Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta Spain Sant Antoni Library, Barcelona (2008) Akasaka Palace, Tokyo 2018 India Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1977–1992, multiple phases) Aga Khan Museum, Toronto 2019 Japan Art Tower Mito (1990) Palace of Versailles 2020 and Shelley McNamara Ireland The Grafton Building of Bocconi University (2007) Online 2021 Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal France National School of Architecture, Nantes (2009) Online 2022 Burkina FasoGermany Centre for Earth Architecture, Mopti, Mali (2010) London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Marshall Building, London 2023 David Chipperfield United Kingdom Neues Museum, Berlin (1997–2009) Ancient Agora of Athens2024 Riken YamamotoJapan Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (2007)Art Institute of Chicago2025 Liu JiakunChina West Village, Chengdu, China (2015)Louvre Abu Dhabi2026 Smiljan Radić ClarkeChileSerpentine Gallery Pavilion, London (2014)

Table notes A. Roche was born in Ireland. B. Pei was born in China. C. Gehry was born in Canada. D. Hadid was born in Iraq. E. Rogers was born in Italy into an Anglo-Italian family. F. Posthumous award. G. Ceremony held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. H. Kéré was born in Burkina Faso. I. Yamamoto was born in China to Japanese parents while it was under Japanese occupation.

Criticism In 2013, the student organization "Women in Design" at the Harvard Graduate School of Design started a petition arguing Denise Scott Brown should receive joint recognition with her partner, Robert Venturi, who won the award in 1991. The petition, according to The 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, when Zaha Hadid won". Scott Brown told CNN 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." 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 of Lu Wenyu, whose husband Wang Shu won in 2012. The 2020 Pritzker jury said in its citation awarding the prize to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley 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."

In 2026, weeks before the year's Laureate was announced, Thomas Pritzker, the director of the Hyatt foundation and son of Jay A. Pritzker resigned from his role as the Hyatt Hotels Corporation executive chairman following the release of the Epstein files which contained communications between himself and Jeffrey Epstein, saying he "exercised terrible judgment in maintaining contact with" Epstein. However, Pritzker remains the director and vice president of the Hyatt foundation, and a Hyatt Hotels Corporation executive.

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