Enrique Sobejano   I. A light volume of metal panels supported by thin columns rises in the middle of a dense forest facing the sea, allowing large pine trees to pass through the structure and continue to grow, in an unusual inversion of the image of the cabin suspende

Jacques Herzog   Querida señora Pritzker y toda la familia Pritzker; queridos miembros del jurado; queridos amigos; señoras y señores: Gracias. Gracias por tantas cosas. Gracias por su continuo e insobornable compromiso con la arquitectura. Gracias por elegirnos para

François Chaslin   There are moments when it feels like we are at a turning point. Moments in which the insight and ingenuity of certain architects, their perseverance, the determination of a few builders, and certain changes in the collective imagination open up other

The Hyatt Foundation has selected Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal as the 2021 winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the accolade it has been giving every year since 1979, coming with an award of US$100,000 (84,000 euros). Chaired by Ale

The Pritzker Architecture Prize   The video, produced in lieu of an in-person ceremony for the first time in the 42-year history of the award, discusses the meaning of the Prize, reveals the Laureates’ intimate reflections on architecture, and includes a personal message to embolden

Antonio Lucas   Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara were brainstorming for a name for their studio. It was 1978. They combined their surnames, switched their names around, sometimes drifting toward a more abstract or poetic formulation to go by as an architectural d

The social coherence and commitment demonstrated by Grafton Architects, established in 1978, in Dublin, by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, has garnered this year’s Pritzker Prize, the first ever to be conferred on a partnership of women. Arquite

In 2020, for the first time in the history of the award, the Hyatt Foundation gave the Pritzker Prize to a tandem of women: the Irish firm Grafton Architects. The work of Yvonne Farrell (1951) and Shelley McNamara (1952) – in joint practice since 197

Arata Isozaki The Hyatt Foundation gave the Pritzker Prize in 2019 to Arata Isozaki, master of Japanese architecture and bridge between West and East. Born in 1941, Isozaki studied at the University of Tokyo, where he met Kenzo Tange, who was a ke

The Hyatt Foundation awarded the Pritzker Prize 2018 to Balkrishna Doshi, master and teacher of several generations of Indian architects, aside from link between modernity in Europe and modernity in India. Born in Pune in 1927 and trained with Le Cor