Pritzker Prize

This article is about an architecture award; for the American military history award, see Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing .

Pritzker Prize Medal

The Pritzker Prize , also Pritzker Architecture Prize ( English Pritzker Architecture Prize ), is a world-renowned award for architecture . It was donated in 1979 by the American Jay A. Pritzker (owner of the Hyatt hotel chain, among others ) and his wife Cindy and has been organized by the Hyatt Foundation since their death . The annual award is endowed with 100,000 US dollars and is highly valued in specialist circles.

The architecture curator of the Art Institute of Chicago Martha Thorne was appointed on August 19, 2005 as the new director of the Pritzker Prize Committee.

Award winners

#	year	Nat.	Architectural office / architect		Age at award a
01.	1979		Philip Johnson		73
02.	1980		Luis Barragan		78
03.	1981		James Stirling		55
04th	1982		Kevin Roche		60
05.	1983		Ieoh Ming Pei ( born in)		66
06th	1984		Richard Meier		50
07th	1985		Hans Hollein		51
08th.	1986		Gottfried Boehm		66
09.	1987		Kenzo Tange		74
10.	1988		Gordon Bunshaft (½)		79
			Oscar Niemeyer (½)		81
11.	1989		Frank Gehry		60
12.	1990		Aldo Rossi		59
13.	1991		Robert Venturi		66
14th	1992		Álvaro Siza Vieira		59
15th	1993		Fumihiko Maki		65
16.	1994		Christian de Portzamparc		50
17th	1995		Tadao Ando		54
18th	1996		Rafael Moneo		59
19th	1997		Sverre Fehn		73
20th	1998		Renzo Piano		61
21st	1999		Norman Foster		64
22nd	2000		Rem Koolhaas		56
23.	2001		Herzog & de Meuron	Jacques Herzog	51
				Pierre de Meuron	51
24.	2002		Glenn Murcutt		66
25th	2003		Jørn Utzon		85
26th	2004		Zaha Hadid ( born in)		54
27.	2005		Thom Mayne		61
28.	2006		Paulo Mendes da Rocha		78
29	2007		Richard Rogers		74
30th	2008		Jean Nouvel		63
31.	2009		Peter Zumthor		66
32.	2010		SANAA	Kazuyo Sejima	54
				Ryue Nishizawa	44
33.	2011		Eduardo Souto de Moura		59
34.	2012		Wang Shu		49
35.	2013		Toyo Ito		72
36.	2014		Shigeru Ban		57
37.	2015		Frei Otto ( posthumous )		90
38.	2016		Alejandro Aravena		49
39.	2017		RCR Arquitectes	Rafael Aranda Quiles	56
				Carme Pigem Barceló	55
				Ramón Vilalta Pujol	57
40.	2018		Balkrishna Doshi		90
41.	2019		Arata Isozaki		87
42.	2020		Grafton Architects	Yvonne Farrell	≈68
				Shelley McNamara	≈67

^a The average age of the architects in the year of the award ceremony is 65 years (as of 2019).

statistics

• In 2020 the prize was awarded for the 42nd time.
• The first and so far only Austrian to receive the award was Hans Hollein (1985).
• After Gottfried Böhm (1986) Frei Otto was the second German to receive the award in 2015.
• From Switzerland, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (2001) and Peter Zumthor (2009) are among the award winners.
• In 2004, a woman was honored for the first time: Zaha Hadid , a British woman from Iraq, received the award “for her life's work”. In 2010 he got another wife, Kazuyo Sejima from SANAA . In 2017 Carme Pigem Barceló (RCR Arquitectes) was the third woman to be recognized. Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell (Grafton Architects) followed in 2020 .
• On average, the award winners are 63 years old in the year they are awarded (as of 2017). The youngest winner was Ryūe Nishizawa from SANAA at the age of 44 . The oldest award winner was Balkrishna Doshi (2018) at the age of 90, ahead of Frei Otto, who would have been 90 years old in 2015 - the year of the award.
• If you count the two winners from 1988 by half, the following distribution of the prizes among the nations results (as of 2020):

nation	Prices
Japan	7th
United States	6½
United Kingdom	4th
France	2
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Switzerland
Spain
Brazil	1½
Australia	1
People's Republic of China
Denmark
Canada
India
Ireland
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Austria
Chile
22 nations	42 prices

See also

• List of architecture awards
• Driehaus Architecture Prize ("Pritzker Prize for Traditional Architecture ")

Web links

Commons : Pritzker Prize Winners  - Collection of Images

• Website of the award (English) with a list of all previous award winners

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} “… the two Pritzker Laureates chosen by the jury in 1988 will share the prize equally.” see: pritzkerprize.com ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.