Pritzker Architecture

Rem Koolhaas Pritzker Prize: 2000 Architectural Style: Modernism Popular Work Name: Seattle Central Library Location: Seattle, Washington Type of Building/Use: Public Library Architectural Style: Modernism

Famous Dictum "A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same"

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron Pritzker Prize: 2001 Architectural Style: Reappropriation of traditional elements Popular Work Name: Tate Modern Location: London, England Type of Building/Use: Art Museum Architectural Style: Art Deco and modernism

Famous Dictum "A building is a building. It cannot be read like a book; it doesn't have any credits, subtitles or labels like picture in a gallery..."

Gottfried Böhm Pritzker Prize: 1986 Architectural Style: Expressionist Popular Work Name: Pilgrimage Church of Mary, Queen of Peace Location: Neviges, Germany Type of Building/Use: Church Architectural Style: Expressionist

Famous Dictum "A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function"

Glenn Murcutt Pritzker Prize: 2002 Architectural Style: Modernist, environmentalist, with a focus on local craftsmanship and respect for nature Popular Work Name: The Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Education Centre Location: West Cambewarra, New South Wales, Australia Type of Building/Use: Arts education complex Architectural Style: Modernist, environmentalist

Famous Dictum "Touch the earth lightly"

Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramon Vilalta Pritzker Prize: 2017 Architectural Style: Minimalist, landscape-integrated, and material-sensitive. Popular Work Name: La Cuisine Art Center Location: Négrepelisse, France Type of Building/Use: Art Center Architectural Style: Contemporary design integrated with historic architecture

Famous Dictum "A poet sees a cloud on paper, recognizing its role: without it, no rain, no trees, no paper. The cloud is crucial for paper's existence."

Philip Johnson Pritzker Prize: 1979 Architectural Style: International Style, Postmodernist Popular Work Name: The Glass House Location: New Canaan, Connecticut Type of Building/Use: House Architectural Style: Modern architecture

Famous Dictum "All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space." ​

Paulo Mendes da Rocha Pritzker Prize: 2006 Architectural Style: Paulista Brutalism Popular Work Name: Pinacoteca do Estado Location: São Paulo, Brazil Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Paulista Brutalism

Famous Dictum "All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human mind."

Rafael Moneo Pritzker Prize: 1996 Architectural Style: Contextual rationalism Popular Work Name: National Museum of Roman Art Location: Mérida, Spain Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Classical Architecture, Modernism, Contemporary Architecture

Famous Dictum "Architects should think about not only the current moment but also about both past and future."

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara Pritzker Prize: 2020 Architectural Style: Known for structures that are at once understated and complex, historical and modern Popular Work Name: University Campus UTEC Lima Location: Lima, Peru Type of Building/Use: University Building Architectural Style: Modern design with a historical touch

Famous Dictum "Architecture could be described as one of the most complex and important cultural activities on the planet."

Wang Shu Pritzker Prize: 2012 Architectural Style: Combines traditional materials with modern design Popular Work Name: Ningbo History Museum Location: Ningbo, China Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Modern design with traditional Chinese elements, using local and recycled materials.

Famous Dictum "Architecture is not just an object that you place in the environment."

Diébédo Francis Kéré Pritzker Prize: 2023 Architectural Style: Modern, minimal designs Popular Work Name:Neues Museum Location:Berlin, Germany Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Incorporates modern, minimal designs with historic buildings

Famous Dictum "Architecture is primarily a service to humanity"

Zaha Hadid Pritzker Prize: Not clear from the text due to OCR error, but it is known that Zaha Hadid won the Pritzker Prize in 2004. Architectural Style: Modernist Popular Work Name: Guangzhou Opera House (assumed from OCR error) Location: Guangzhou, China Type of Building/Use: Opera House Architectural Style: Modernist

Famous Dictum "Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure."

I.M. Pei Pritzker Prize: 1983 Architectural Style: Modernist Popular Work Name: The Louvre Pyramid Location: Paris, France Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Modernist

Famous Dictum "Architecture is the very mirror of life."

Kenzo Tange Pritzker Prize: 1987 Architectural Style: Modernist, influenced by traditional Japanese styles Popular Work Name: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Location: Hiroshima, Japan Type of Building/Use: Memorial park Architectural Style: Modernist

Famous Dictum "Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart, but even then, basic forms, spaces and appearances must be logical."

Frank Gehry Pritzker Prize: 1989 Architectural Style: Deconstructivist Popular Work Name: Guggenheim Museum Location: Bilbao, Spain Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Deconstructivist

Famous Dictum "Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

Richard Meier Pritzker Prize: 1984 Architectural Style: Modernist Popular Work Name: The Getty Center Location: Los Angeles, California Type of Building/Use: Institutional Architectural Style: Modernist

Famous Dictum "Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form."

Norman Foster Pritzker Prize: 1999 Architectural Style: Modernist, known for his sleek buildings made of steel and glass Popular Work Name: The Gherkin Location: London, England Type of Building/Use: Skyscraper Architectural Style: Modernist

Famous Dictum "As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown."

Balkrishna Doshi Pritzker Prize: 2018 Architectural Style: Modern principles in Indian context Popular Work Name: Aranya Low-Cost Housing Location: Indore, India Type of Building/Use: Housing Architectural Style: Modern Indian Architecture

Famous Dictum "Design is nothing but a humble understanding of materials, a natural instinct for solutions, and respect for nature."

Jean Nouvel Pritzker Prize: 2008 Architectural Style: Conceptual architecture Popular Work Name: Louvre Abu Dhabi Location: United Arab Emirates Type of Building/Use: Art museum and cultural center Architectural Style: Neo-Futurism, with elements of Arabian architecture

Famous Dictum "Each new situation requires a new architecture"

Álvaro Siza Pritzker Prize: 1992 Architectural Style: Modernism Popular Work Name: The Leça Swimming Pool Location: Leça da Palmeira, Portugal Type of Building/Use: Public swimming pool Architectural Style: Modernism

Famous Dictum "Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances."

Hans Hollein Pritzker Prize: 1985 Architectural Style: Postmodern Popular Work Name: Abteiberg Museum Location: Mönchengladbach, Germany Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Postmodern

Famous Dictum "Everything is Architecture" ​

Eduardo Souto de Moura Pritzker Prize: 2011 Architectural Style: Minimalist Popular Work Name: Braga Municipal Stadium Location: Braga, Portugal Type of Building/Use: Stadium Architectural Style: Muscular, monumental and very much at home within its powerful landscape

Famous Dictum "I Look Beyond Solution; I Look For an Expression"

Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa Pritzker Prize: 2010 Architectural Style: Refined simplicity, spatial fluidity, and thoughtful integration into their surroundings Popular Work Name: The New Museum of Contemporary Art Location: New York City, USA Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Modern and minimalist, with shifting box forms

Famous Dictum "I am always inside the Architecture that I Design"

Christian de Portzamparc Pritzker Prize: 1994 Architectural Style: Blend classical forms, modernist radicalism, and postmodern, nonconformist approaches Popular Work Name: Cité de la Musique Location: Paris, France Type of Building/Use: Cultural Centre Architectural Style: Modernism and deconstructivism

Famous Dictum "I believe that a people are great when their architecture is great."

James Stirling Pritzker Prize: 1981 Architectural Style: New Brutalism, Postmodernism Popular Work Name: Neue Staatsgalerie Location: Stuttgart, Germany Type of Building/Use: Gallery Architectural Style: A combination of classicism and geometric abstraction

Famous Dictum "I believe that the shapes of a building should indicate - perhaps display - the usage and way of life of its occupants, and it is therefore likely to be rich and varied in appearance."

Tadao Ando Pritzker Prize: 1995 Architectural Style: Minimalist, with a focus on natural elements like light and wind Popular Work Name: Church of the Light Location: Osaka, Japan Type of Building/Use: Church Architectural Style: Minimalist, emphasizing natural light

Famous Dictum "I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind."

Jørn Utzon Pritzker Prize: 2003 Architectural Style: Additive Architecture Popular Work Name: Sydney Opera House Location: Sydney, Australia Type of Building/Use: Opera House Architectural Style: Expressionist Modernism

Famous Dictum "I like to be on the edge of the possible."

Arata Isozaki Pritzker Prize: 2019 Architectural Style: Initially modernism, later transformed to postmodernism Popular Work Name: Museum of Contemporary Art Location: Los Angeles, California Type of Building/Use: Art Museum Architectural Style: Postmodern

Famous Dictum "I'm postmodern, not postmodernist."

Robert Venturi Pritzker Prize: 1991 Architectural Style: Postmodern Popular Work Name: Vanna Venturi House Location: Philadelphia, USA Type of Building/Use: Residential Architectural Style: Postmodern

Famous Dictum "Less is a bore

Frei Otto Pritzker Prize: 2015 Architectural Style: Lightweight and tensile structures Popular Work Name: Olympic Stadium Location: Munich, Germany Type of Building/Use: Stadium Architectural Style: Tensile structure

Famous Dictum "Less is more."

Thom Mayne Pritzker Prize: 2005 Architectural Style: Deconstructivism Popular Work Name: 41 Cooper Square Location: New York, NY, USA Type of Building/Use: School Architectural Style: Bold and unconventional, with offset angular forms

Famous Dictum "My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness"

Fumihiko Maki Pritzker Prize: 1993 Architectural Style: Modernism Popular Work Name: Shenzhen Sea World Culture and Arts Centre Location: Shenzhen, China Type of Building/Use: Cultural Center Architectural Style: Modernism

Famous Dictum "My ideal is a diverse, dynamic group that can make calculated decisions for creating architecture."

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal Pritzker Prize: 2021 Architectural Style: Restorative architecture that is technological, innovative, and ecologically responsive Popular Work Name: Transformation of 530 Dwellings Location: Bordeaux, France Type of Building/Use: Social Housing Architectural Style: Sustainable and innovative transformation of modernist architecture

Famous Dictum "Never demolish, never remove — always add, transform and reuse."

Aldo Rossi Pritzker Prize: 1990 Architectural Style: Neorationalism Popular Work Name: San Cataldo Cemetery Location: Modena, Italy Type of Building/Use: Cemetery Architectural Style: Neorationalism

Famous Dictum "One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places."

Renzo Piano Pritzker Prize: 1998 Architectural Style: High-tech public spaces Popular Work Name: Centre Georges Pompidou Location: Paris, France Type of Building/Use: Cultural Center Architectural Style: High-tech

Famous Dictum "One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again."

Sverre Fehn Pritzker Prize: 1997 Architectural Style: Modernism with traditional Scandinavian vernacular architecture Popular Work Name: Norwegian Glacier Museum Location: Fjærland, Norway Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Modernism with traditional Scandinavian vernacular architecture

Famous Dictum "Only the manifestation of the present can bring past to life."

Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH Pritzker Prize: 2023 Architectural Style: Modern, minimal designs Popular Work Name:Neues Museum Location:Berlin, Germany Type of Building/Use: Museum Architectural Style: Incorporates modern, minimal designs with historic buildings

Famous Dictum "The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it."

Richard Rogers Pritzker Prize: 2007 Architectural Style: High-tech architecture, also known as structural expressionism Popular Work Name: Lloyd's building Location: London, UK Type of Building/Use: Office building Architectural Style: High-tech architecture

Famous Dictum "The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."

Zaha Hadid Pritzker Prize: 2004 Architectural Style: Deconstructivism Popular Work Name: Guangzhou Opera House Location: Guangzhou, China Type of Building/Use: Opera House Architectural Style: Parametricism, Modern architecture

Famous Dictum "There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?"

Peter Zumthor Pritzker Prize: 2009 Architectural Style: Minimalist or Contextual Architecture Popular Work Name: Therme Vals Location: Vals, Graubünden, Switzerland Type of Building/Use: Thermal Spa Architectural Style: Minimalist

Famous Dictum "This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings."

Alejandro Aravena Pritzker Prize: 2016 Architectural Style: Social engagement, sustainability, and practical solutions to housing challenges Popular Work Name: Quinta Monroy Housing Location: Iquique, Chile Type of Building/Use: Social Housing Architectural Style: Contemporary social housing architecture

Famous Dictum "Unique architecture has limited value as it can't be repeated. The goal is to improve people's lives by addressing social needs and human desires."

Toyo Ito Pritzker Prize: 2013 Architectural Style: Conceptual architecture, combining elements of minimalism with technology Popular Work Name: Sendai Mediatheque Location: Aoba-Ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan Type of Building/Use: Library Architectural Style: Conceptual architecture

Famous Dictum "We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand."

Kevin Roche Pritzker Prize: 1982 Architectural Style: Eclectic and Mid-century Modernist Popular Work Name: Ford Foundation Headquarters Location: New York City Type of Building/Use: Corporate headquarters Architectural Style: Modernist

Famous Dictum "[The building] is not postmodern or pre-modern. It is simply the most obvious thing I could have done."