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The Pritzker Prize is an international prize awarded yearly to a living architect/s for significant achievement. The Pritzker family established it 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.”
Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal, the French architect couple winner of the Pritzker 2021 Prize, designed the Cap Ferret house in the pines in 1998 on an undeveloped plot in…
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In 1997, Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki completed the Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium in Nakatsu, Japan. The building’s design emphasizes what the architect called “transitional spaces,” wherein the functional rooms are…
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The Bunshaft Residence, also known as the Travertine House, is a landmark of modernist architecture. Designed by architect Gordon Bunshaft for himself and his wife, this weekend getaway on the…
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In 1997, Shigeru Ban completed the Wall-less House, also known as the House Without Walls. In this project, Ban creates a “universal floor,” a term coined by Robert Kronenberg in…
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In 1975, the renowned Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn completed the groundbreaking Skådalen School, a specialized educational facility designed to cater to children with hearing impairments. The meticulously planned campus consists…
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Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara from Grafton Architects have been named the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates. In 2008 they completed the Luigi Bocconi University that was praised as a…
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The Bensberg Town Hall was designed in 1962 by Gottfried Böhm and completed in 1969. Thick concrete slabs and seamless glass creates a rationalist base for the tower, which rises…
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Completed in 2014, Casa Wabi is an extraordinary fusion of an Art Centre and a residential edifice, masterfully designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The concept of Casa Wabi gracefully…
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Alejandro Aravena won in 2016 the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The architect, in collaboration with his team,” Elemental,” fosters an architecture thought from the collective thinking that aims to solve some…
Continue readingAlejandro Aravena, the Chilean architect who won the Pritzker 2016 prize, is a social housing visionary who engages with residents in planning their own homes. He encourages architects worldwide to…
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