Pritzker Architecture Prize6 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was born in the hillside district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts there. Niemeyer’s architecture, conceived as lyrical sculpture, expands ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize6 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
In 1995, Kazuyo Sejima (born in 1956) and Ryue Nishizawa (born in 1966) founded SANAA, the Tokyo architecture studio that has designed innovative buildings in Japan and around the world. Examples of ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize5 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Born in Rotterdam, Rem Koolhaas spent four years of his youth in Indonesia, where his father served as director of a newly formed cultural institute. Following in the footsteps of his literary father, ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize10 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Shigeru Ban was born in Tokyo on August 5, 1957. His father was a businessman at Toyota, and his mother is a women’s clothing “haute couture” designer. Ban’s father was very fond of classical music ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize5 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
José Rafael Moneo was born in the small town of Tudela, Navarra, Spain in May of 1937. His mother, Teresa, was the daughter of a magistrate from Aragón. His father, Rafael, whose family roots were in ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize4 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
“Since the beginning of his architectural career in the 1970s, Frenchman Jean Nouvel has broken the aesthetic of modernism and post-modernism to create a stylistic language all his own. He places ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize1 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Danish architect Jørn Utzon was born in 1918. While in secondary school, he began helping his father, director of a shipyard in Alborg, Denmark, and brilliant naval architect, by studying new designs, ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize1 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Architect and Professor Wang Shu was born in 1963 in Urumqi, a city in Xinjiang, the western most province of China. He received his first degree in architecture in 1985 and his Masters degree in 1988 ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize4 年
Alejandro Aravena, Jury Chair
Alejandro Aravena is the 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate and Founder and Executive Director of ELEMENTAL, a “Do Tank” that focuses on projects of public interest and social impact including housing, ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize6 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Ieoh Ming Pei, architect of some of the world's most acclaimed buildings, has been chosen the 1983 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. I.M. Pei's structures have received global recognition ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize1 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
Toyo Ito was born on June 1, 1941 in Keijo (Seoul), Korea (Japanese). His father was a business man with a special interest in the early ceramic ware of the Yi Dynasty of Korea and Japanese style ...
Pritzker Architecture Prize4 年
The Pritzker Architecture Prize
“We will hold to that which is difficult, because it is difficult … and by its difficulty is worthwhile.” That’s a quote from architect Thom Mayne in a monograph about his firm, Morphosis, which he ...