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. solicits nominations from a range of people, including past Laureates, academics, critics and others "with expertise and interest in the field of architecture". 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.

Laureates

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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. The 2017 winners, architects , Carme Pigem, and were the first group of three to share the prize.

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|+ Pritzker Architecture Prize winners

! scope=col width=1%| Year

! scope=col| Laureate(s)

! scope=col| Nationality

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! scope=col class="unsortable" colspan=2|Example work (year completed)

! scope=col| Award ceremony location

! scope=col class="unsortable" style:text-align=center width=1%|Ref.

| 1979

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|| United States || 100px || 100px ||Glass House (1949)|| Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC ||

| 1980

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|| Mexico || 100px || 100px|| Cuadra San Cristóbal (1968)|| Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC ||

| 1981

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|| United Kingdom || 100px || 100px || Seeley Historical Library (1968) ||National Building Museum, Washington DC ||

|| 1982

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||Ireland United States || 100px || 100px|| Ford Foundation Building (1967)|| Art Institute of Chicago ||

| rowspan="2"| 1988

! scope=row| (shared prize)

|| United States ||

| 100px || Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (1963) || rowspan="2"| Art Institute of Chicago ||

! scope=row| (shared prize)

|| Brazil || 100px || 100px || Cathedral of Brasília (1958) ||

| 1990

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|| Italy ||100px|| 100px || San Cataldo Cemetery (1978)||Palazzo Grassi, Venice ||

| 1991

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|| United States || 100px || 100px || National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing (1991) || Palace of Iturbide, Mexico City ||

| 1992

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|| Portugal || 100px || 100px|| Leça Swimming Pools (1966) || Harold Washington Library, Chicago ||

| 1993

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|| Japan || 100px || 100px || Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (1991) || Prague Castle ||

| 1995

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|| Japan || 100px || 100px || Church of the Light (1989)|| Petit Trianon, Versailles ||

| 1996

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|| Spain || 100px || 100px || National Museum of Roman Art (1986) || Getty Center, Los Angeles ||

| 1997

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|| Norway || 100px || 100px || Norwegian Glacier Museum (1991) || Guggenheim Museum Bilbao ||

|1998

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|| Italy || 100px || 100px || Kansai International Airport (1994) || White House, Washington DC ||

| 1999

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|| United Kingdom || 100px || 100px || HSBC Building (1985) || Altes Museum, Berlin ||

| 2001

! scope=row| Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron

|| Switzerland || 100px || 100px || Tate Modern (2000)|| Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia ||

| 2002

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|| Australia || 100px || 100px || Berowra Waters Inn (1983) ||Campidoglio, Rome ||

| 2003

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|| Denmark |||| 100px || Sydney Opera House (1973) || Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid ||

| 2004

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|| Iraq United Kingdom || 100px || 100px || Bergisel Ski Jump (2003) || Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg ||

| 2006

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|| Brazil || 100px || 100px || Saint Peter Chapel, Campos do Jordão, São Paulo (1987) || Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul ||

| 2007

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|| Italy United Kingdom || 100px || 100px || Lloyd's building (1986)|| Banqueting House, Whitehall, London||

| 2008

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|| France || 100px || 100px || Torre Agbar (2005)|| Library of Congress, Washington DC ||

| 2009

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|| Switzerland || 100px || 100px || Therme Vals (1996) || Legislative Palace of the City Council, Buenos Aires ||

| 2010

! scope=row| and Ryue Nishizawa

|| Japan || 100px || 100px || 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (2003) || Ellis Island, New York City ||

| 2011

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|| Portugal || 100px || 100px || Estádio Municipal de Braga (2004) || Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Washington DC ||

| 2012

! scope=row| Wang Shu

|| China || 100px || 100px || Ningbo Museum (2008) || Great Hall of the People, Beijing ||

| 2013

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|| Japan || 100px || 100px || Sendai Mediatheque (2001) || John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston ||

| 2014

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|| Japan || 100px || 100px || Centre Pompidou-Metz (2010) || Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam||

| 2015

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|| Germany || || 100px || Olympic Stadium, Munich (1972) || New World Center, Miami ||

| 2016

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|| Chile || 100px || 100px || Siamese Towers, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2005) ||United Nations Headquarters, New York City||

| 2017

! scope=row| , Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta

|| Spain || ||100px || Sant Antoni Library, Barcelona (2008)|| Akasaka Palace, Tokyo ||

| 2018

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| India

| 100px

| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1977–1992, multiple phases)

| Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

| 2019

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| Japan

| 100px

| Art Tower Mito (1990)

| Palace of Versailles

| 2020

! scope=row| and Shelley McNamara

| Ireland

| 100px 100px

| 100px

| The Grafton Building of Bocconi University (2007)

| Online

| 2021

! scope=row| Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal

| France

| 100px

| National School of Architecture, Nantes (2009)

| Online

| 2022

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| Burkina Faso Germany

| 100px

| Centre for Earth Architecture, Mopti, Mali (2010)

| London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Marshall Building, London

| 2023

! scope=row| David Chipperfield

| United Kingdom

| 100px

| Neues Museum, Berlin (1997–2009)

| Ancient Agora of Athens

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|2024

! scope=row| Riken Yamamoto

|Japan

|100px

|Yokosuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan (2007)

|Art Institute of Chicago

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|2025

! scope=row| Liu Jiakun

|China

|100px

|West Village, Chengdu, China (2015)

|Louvre Abu Dhabi

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|2026

! scope=row| Smiljan Radić Clarke

|Chile

|100px

|Serpentine 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.

References

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Pritzker Architecture Prize

Criteria and proceedings

Laureates

Table notes

Criticism

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References

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