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Pritzker Prize (prĭt`skər), officially The Pritzker Architecture Prize, award for excellence in architecture, given annually since 1979. Largely modeled on the Nobel Prize Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel was established in 1968 from funds provided by the Swedish national bank, Sveriges Riksbank, and was first awarded in 1969.
..... Click the link for more information. , it is the premier architectural award in the United States and is named for the family that sponsors the Chicago-based Hyatt Foundation. Architects who have won the prize are: 1979, Philip Johnson Johnson, Philip Cortelyou, 1906–2005, American architect, museum curator, and historian, b. Cleveland, grad. Harvard Univ. (B.A., 1927). One of the first Americans to study modern European architecture, Johnson wrote (with H.-R.
..... Click the link for more information. (United States); 1980, Louis Barragan (Mexico); 1981, James Stirling Stirling, Sir James Frazer, 1926–92, British architect, b. Glasgow, grad. Univ. of Liverpool school of architecture (1950). Settling in London, Stirling worked in partnership (1956–63) with James Gowan, and became known for straightforward and functional
..... Click the link for more information. (Great Britain); 1982, Kevin Roche (United States); 1983, I. M. Pei Pei, I. M. (Ieoh Ming Pei) (pā), 1917–, Chinese-American architect, b. Guangzhou, China.
..... Click the link for more information. (United States); 1984, Richard Meier Meier, Richard (mī`ər), 1934–, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. (United States); 1985, Hans Hollein (Austria); 1986, Gottfried Boehm (Germany); 1987, Kenzo Tange Tange, Kenzo (kĕn`zō täng`ē), 1913–2005, Japanese architect. A graduate of the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. (Japan); 1988, Gordon Bunshaft Bunshaft, Gordon, 1909–90, American architect, b. Buffalo, N.Y. As chief designer for the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill , Bunshaft was responsible for Lever House, New York City's first glass curtain-wall skyscraper (1952), which has been
..... Click the link for more information. (United States) and Oscar Niemeyer Soares Niemeyer Soares, Oscar (
..... Click the link for more information. (Brazil); 1989, Frank Gehry Gehry, Frank Owen (gĕr`ē), 1929–, American architect, b. Toronto, Canada as Frank Owen Goldberg.
..... Click the link for more information. (United States); 1990, Aldo Rossi Rossi, Aldo (äl`dō rôs`sē), 1931–97, Italian architectb. Milan; grad. Milan Polytechnic (1959).
..... Click the link for more information. (Italy); 1991, Robert Venturi Venturi, Robert, 1925–, American architect, b. Philadelphia. In his writings, Venturi inveighed against the banality of modern architecture in the postwar period.
..... Click the link for more information. (United States); 1992, Alvaro Siza (Portugal); 1993, Fumihiko Maki (Japan); 1994, Christian de Portzamparc (France); 1995, Tadao Ando Ando, Tadao (tädäō ändō), 1941–, Japanese architect, b. Osaka.
..... Click the link for more information. (Japan); 1996, Rafael Moneo Moneo, Rafael (José Rafael Moneo), 1937–, Spanish architect, b. Tudela, Navarre. He received undergraduate (1961) and doctoral (1965) degrees from the Madrid School of Architecture, worked (1960–61) with Danish architect Jørn Utzon, and studied
..... Click the link for more information. (Spain); 1997, Sverre Fehn (Norway); 1998, Renzo Piano Piano, Renzo (rĕnt`sō pyä`nō), 1937–, Italian architect, b. Genoa.
..... Click the link for more information. (Italy); 1999, Lord Norman Foster Foster, Norman Robert, Lord Foster of Thames Bank, 1935–, British architect, b. Manchester, grad. Manchester Univ. school of architecture (1961), Yale school of architecture (M.A., 1962).
..... Click the link for more information. (Great Britain); 2000, Rem Koolhaas Koolhaas, Rem, 1944–, Dutch architect, b. Rotterdam. He began his career as a journalist and screenwriter, moving to London in the late 1960s to study architecture.
..... Click the link for more information. (Netherlands); 2001, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Switzerland); 2002, Glenn Murcutt (Australia); 2003, Jørn Utzon (Denmark); 2004, Zaha Hadid (Great Britain), the first female recipient; 2005, Thom Mayne (United States); and 2006, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Brazil).

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