Pritzker Prize
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect.
Created in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and run by the Pritzker family, it is considered the world's premier architecture prize.
The winner receives $100,000, but more important is the industry-wide fame and subsequent interest from building developers. The Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel Prize of Architecture".
A complete list of winners:
- 1979 Philip Johnson of the United States (1906 - 2005)
- 1980 Luis Barragán of Mexico (1902 - 1988)
- 1981 James Stirling of the United Kingdom (1924 - 1992)
- 1982 Kevin Roche of the United States and Ireland
- 1983 Ieoh Ming Pei of the United States
- 1984 Richard Meier of the United States
- 1985 Hans Hollein of Austria
- 1986 Gottfried Böhm of Germany
- 1987 Kenzo Tange of Japan (1913-2005)
- 1988 Gordon Bunshaft of the United States (1909 - 1990) and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil
- 1989 Frank Gehry of the United States (Canadian born)
- 1990 Aldo Rossi of Italy (1931 - 1997)
- 1991 Robert Venturi of the United States
- 1992 Alvaro Siza of Portugal
- 1993 Fumihiko Maki of Japan
- 1994 Christian de Portzamparc of France
- 1995 Tadao Ando of Japan
- 1996 Rafael Moneo of Spain
- 1997 Sverre Fehn of Norway
- 1998 Renzo Piano of Italy
- 1999 Sir Norman Foster of the United Kingdom
- 2000 Rem Koolhaas of The Netherlands
- 2001 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Switzerland
- 2002 Glenn Murcutt of Australia
- 2003 Jørn Utzon of Denmark
- 2004 Zaha Hadid of Iraq and the United Kingdom
- 2005 Thom Mayne of the United States
- 2006 Paulo Mendes da Rocha of Brazil
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1979: Johnson 80: Barragán 81: Stirling 82: Roche 83: Pei 84: Meier 85: Hollein 86: Böhm 87: Tange 88: Bunshaft and Niemeyer 89: Gehry 90: Rossi 91: Venturi 92: Siza 93: Maki 94: Portzamparc 95: Ando 96: Moneo 97: Fehn 98: Piano 99: Foster 2000: Koolhaas 01: Herzog & de Meuron 02: Murcutt 03: Utzon 04: Hadid 05: Mayne 06: Mendes da Rocha |