List of Pritzker Architecture Prize Recipients
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officially The Pritzker Architecture Prize
, award for excellence in architecture, given annually since 1979. Largely modeled on the Nobel Prize, it is the premier architectural award in the United States and is named for the family that founded the
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| Year | Recipient(s) | Nation |
| 1979 | Philip JohnsonJohnson, 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 StirlingStirling, Sir James Frazer, 1924–92, 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 modernist ..... Click the link for more information. | Great Britain |
| 1982 | Kevin Roche | United States |
| 1983 | I. M. PeiPei, I. M. (Ieoh Ming Pei) , 1917–, Chinese-American architect, b. Guangzhou, China. Pei emigrated to the United States in 1935 and studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard, where he taught from 1945 to 1948. ..... Click the link for more information. | United States |
| 1984 | Richard MeierMeier, Richard , 1934–, American architect, b. Newark, N.J., educated at Cornell. During the 1960s, he was a member of the New York "Five" or "white" architects, a group that emulated the early International style. In such projects as the Smith House in Darien, Conn. ..... Click the link for more information. | United States |
| 1985 | Hans Hollein | Austria |
| 1986 | Gottfried Boehm | Germany |
| 1987 | Kenzo TangeTange, Kenzo , 1913–2005, Japanese architect. A graduate of the Univ. of Tokyo, he later taught there and at several American universities. The Hiroshima Peace Center (1949), for which Tange designed three buildings, won him international fame. ..... Click the link for more information. | Japan |
| 1988 | Gordon BunshaftBunshaft, 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 widely ..... Click the link for more information. and Oscar Niemeyer SoaresNiemeyer Soares, Oscar , 1907–2012, Brazil's foremost 20th-century architect, b. Rio de Janeiro. Influenced by Le Corbusier, Niemeyer developed an architecture noted for its daring conception, purity of line, and formal lyricism; it is frequently characterized by curving ..... Click the link for more information. | United States; Brazil |
| 1989 | Frank GehryGehry, Frank Owen , 1929–, American architect, b. Toronto, Ont., as Frank Owen Goldberg. He is widely considered one of the finest and most artful of contemporary architects. In 1947, Gehry's family moved to Los Angeles, where he attended the Univ. ..... Click the link for more information. | United States |
| 1990 | Aldo RossiRossi, Aldo , 1931–97, Italian architectb. Milan; grad. Milan Polytechnic (1959). He began working for the design magazine Casabella-Continuità in 1954 and became its editor a decade later. His book The Architecture of the City (1966, tr. ..... Click the link for more information. | Italy |
| 1991 | Robert VenturiVenturi, Robert, 1925–2018, American architect and architectural theorist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Princeton (B.A., 1947; M.F.A., 1950). An important and highly influential theorist, Venturi inveighed in his writings against the banality and simplicity of postwar modern ..... Click the link for more information. | United States |
| 1992 | Alvaro Siza | Portugal |
| 1993 | Fumihiko Maki | Japan |
| 1994 | Christian de Portzamparc | France |
| 1995 | Tadao AndoAndo, Tadao , 1941–, Japanese architect, b. Osaka. The majority of his buildings are in Japan; he is particularly known for religious structures and museums. Informally apprenticed to a Japanese master carpenter, Ando is otherwise self-taught. ..... Click the link for more information. | Japan |
| 1996 | Rafael MoneoMoneo, 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 (1963–65) ..... Click the link for more information. | Spain |
| 1997 | Sverre Fehn | Norway |
| 1998 | Renzo PianoPiano, Renzo , 1937–, Italian architect, b. Genoa. Piano attended architecture school at Milan Polytechnic, graduating in 1964. The prolific Piano has been lauded for responding to the needs of each building site rather than cleaving to a single architectural style and has ..... Click the link for more information. | Italy |
| 1999 | Norman FosterFoster, Norman Robert, Baron 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 KoolhaasKoolhaas, Rem (Remmet Lucas Koolhaas), 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 HadidHadid, Dame Zaha, 1950–2016, British architect, b. Baghdad, studied American Univ., Beirut (1968–71), Architectural Association School, London (grad. 1977). A partner in Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1977–79), she established her own ..... Click the link for more information. | Great Britain |
| 2005 | Thom MayneMayne, Thom, 1944–, American architect, b. Waterbury, Conn., grad. Univ. of Southern California (B.A., 1968), Harvard (M.A., 1978). In 1972 Mayne cofounded the firm Morphosis in Santa Monica, Calif., where he is still principal. ..... Click the link for more information. | United States |
| 2006 | Paulo Mendes da Rocha | Brazil |
| 2007 | Richard RogersRogers, Richard, Baron Rogers of Riverside, 1933–, British architect, b. Florence, Italy, studied Architectural Association, London (1954–59), Yale (M.Arch., 1962). With Norman Foster and two other architects he cofounded (1963) Team 4, his first firm. ..... Click the link for more information. | Great Britain |
| 2008 | Jean NouvelNouvel, Jean , 1945–, French architect, grad. École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1971). He opened his own firm in 1975, and became known for innovative techniques, the use of modern materials, and for eschewing a signature style and letting the site, intended use, ..... Click the link for more information. | France |
| 2009 | Peter ZumthorZumthor, Peter, 1943–, Swiss architect. He apprenticed with his cabinetmaker father as a teenager, and wood is a recurring material in his work, e.g., his small, shingled St. ..... Click the link for more information. | Switzerland |
| 2010 | Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners in the firm Sanaa | Japan |
| 2011 | Eduardo Souto de Moura | Portugal |
| 2012 | Wang Shu | China |
| 2013 | Toyo Ito | Japan |
| 2014 | Shigeru BanBan, Shigeru, 1957–, Japanese architect, known especially for temporary structures made from nonstandard building materials and built in response to environmental or societal disasters. ..... Click the link for more information. | Japan |
| 2015 | Frei OttoOtto, Frei Paul , 1925–2015, German architect. Most notable for his tensile and pneumatic structures, Otto was among the first major architects to experiment with lightweight design. He was a noted designer of exhibition tents and sports arenas. ..... Click the link for more information. | Germany |
| 2016 | Alejandro AravenaAravena, Alejandro 1967–, Chilean architect, b. Santiago, grad. Pontifical Catholic Univ. of Chile, Santiago (1992). Inspired by public service as much as by aesthetic concerns, he has focused on innovative, low-cost housing as well as on more traditional architectural ..... Click the link for more information. | Chile |
| 2017 | Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta | Spain |