The Pritzker Architecture Prize

Categories: Architecture

Geography: International

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. The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect/s for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. It is granted annually and is often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honor.”

The award consists of $100,000 (US) and a bronze medallion. The award is conferred on the laureate/s at a ceremony held at an architecturally significant site throughout the world.

Alejandro Aravena (Jury Chair) Barry Bergdoll, Deborah Berke, Stephen Breyer, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, Kazuyo Sejima, Benedetta Tagliabue, Wang Shu, Manuela Lucá-Dazio

Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH
Diébédo Francis Kéré
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
Arata Isozaki
Balkrishna Doshi
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramon Vilalta
Alejandro Aravena
Frei Otto
Shigeru Ban
Toyo Ito
Wang Shu
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa
Peter Zumthor
Jean Nouvel
Richard Rogers
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Thom Mayne
Zaha Hadid
Jørn Utzon
Glenn Murcutt
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
Rem Koolhaas
Norman Foster
Renzo Piano
Sverre Fehn
Rafael Moneo
Tadao Ando
Christian de Portzamparc
Fumihiko Maki
Alvaro Siza
Robert Venturi
Aldo Rossi
Frank Gehry
Gordon Bunshaft
Oscar Niemeyer
Kenzo Tange
Gottfried Böhm
Hans Hollein
Richard Meier
I.M. Pei
Kevin Roche
James Stirling
Luis Barragán
Philip Johnson