Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker 2025 Born in 1956, Liu Jiakun lives and works in his native city, Chengdu, capital of the province of Sichuan in southwest China, where he opened his practice in 1999. He grew up in a family of physicians, b

A country where private practice of the architectural profession was prohibited until the 1980s can congratulate itself for having already landed two Pritzkers. Like the 2012 winner Wang Shu, Liu Jiakun represents a China much at odds with that of ge

Luis Lope de Toledo   In the vast canvas of history, the paintbrush of recognition occasionally chooses to highlight lesser-known artists, who are pulled out of the shadows of anonymity and given the transcendence awaiting them. This past 5 March, the jury of the Pritzke

Riken Yamamoto has been pronounced the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The Hyatt Foundation has recognized the Japanese architect in the new edition of the accolade, which has been given yearly since 1979 and comes with a US$100,000

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Two British architects who have foundations in Spain were feted in the month of May: Norman Foster inaugurated the largest retrospective ever done on his work at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and David Chipperfield was awarded the Pritzker Prize at t

The Pritzker Architecture Prize, in partnership with the National Technical University of Athens, presents The Role of Practice, on Tuesday, May 23rd at 3:40PM EEST, with the participation of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Pa

The Hyatt Foundation has declared the British architect David Chipperfield the winner of the Pritzker Prize, an accolade given annually since 1979 and coming with a sum of US$100,000. Jury Chair Alejandro Aravena has lauded how his work has stood the

Chipperfield, Pritzker Prize

An unofficial compass needle for the discipline, the Pritzker Prize has in recent editions swerved towards more diverse and peripheral narratives, reminding us that architecture need not be radical to improve people’s lives, nor sensationalist to dra

Carlos Jiménez   Llàtzer Moix extracts parables and axioms from his readings of the lives of architects: their works, personalities, and contributions to the city and the larger environment. Books like La ciudad de los arquitectos or Queríamos un Calatrava abound wit

Lacaton & Vassal The Hyatt Foundation has since 1979 given the annual Pritzker Prize with a US$100,000 (84,000€) award. Chaired by Alejandro Aravena, the jury of the latest edition selected Lacaton & Vassal, considering that their work “reflects arch

Pritzker 2022

In a ceremony which at least symbolically has anointed him as the African master of contemporary architecture, Francis Kéré was handed the Pritzker Prize in the Marshall Building of the London School of Economics, a civic-brutalist work of Grafton Ar

Like the Oscar and like the Nobel, the Pritzker is not simply a prize: it is an encrypted emblem and the reading of it is biographical, sociological, and political all at once. Who receives it, and why, are equal in importance. The case of Francis Ké

The Hyatt Foundation has granted the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize to the Burkina Faso architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, the first African architect to receive the distinction. The award is bestowed yearly since 1979, and consists of 100,000 USD (91

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

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

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

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

Llàtzer Moix   Conversaciones con 23 ganadores del principal premio de arquitectura

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