Pritzker Prize
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
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
- ↑ 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.