Pritzker Prize winners

Aldo Rossi, ( May 3, 1931- September 4, 1997 Milan, Italy) was an Italian architect that accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in three distinct areas: theory, drawing, and architecture. His earliest works of the 1960s were mostly theoretical and displayed a simultaneous influence of 1920s Italian modernism (see Giuseppe Terragni), classicist influences of 19th century architect Adolf Loos, and the reflections of the painter Giorgio De Chirico. He became extremely influential in the late 1970s and 1980s as his body of built work expanded and for his theories promoted in his books "The Architecture of the City" (1966) and "A Scientific Autobiography" (1981). ...more on Wikipedia about "Aldo Rossi"

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, pron. IPA / /, (born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos), is a contemporary Portuguese architect. His poetic modernism draws on context to illuminate universal conditions. Along with Fernando Távora, he's one of the references of the ""Escola do Porto" ( Porto School of Architecture), where both were teachers. Both their works are inspired on the site and try to achieve what was missing there - there is allways a very strict conexion between the built and the nature, the new and the old, the sensorial and the racional. ...more on Wikipedia about "Álvaro Siza Vieira"

Christian de Portzamparc (born May 5, 1944 in Casablanca, Morrocco) is a French architect and urbanist. Studies architecture at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris after considering himself "a designer who painted before he decided to study architecture". He won the Pritzker Prize in 1994. ...more on Wikipedia about "Christian de Portzamparc"

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is an architect known for his sculptural approach to building design. He is best known for building curvaceous structures, often covered with reflective metal. His most famous work, and the clearest expression of his style, is the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which is covered in titanium. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Gehry"

Gordon Bunshaft ( May 9, 1909– August 6, 1990) was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gordon Bunshaft"

Gottfried Böhm (or Gottfried Boehm) is a contemporary German architect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gottfried Böhm"

Hans Hollein, ( March 30 1934 in Vienna - ) is an Austrian architect ...more on Wikipedia about "Hans Hollein" Please visit again www.shortopedia.com

Herzog & de Meuron is a Swiss architect firm with an international reputation, founded in 1978 by Jacques Herzog (born 19 April 1950 in Basel) and Pierre de Meuron (born 8 May 1950 in Basel), its two main partners. HdeM's early works were reductivist pieces of modernity that registered on the same level as the minimalist art of Donald Judd. However, their recent work at Prada Tokyo, the Barcelona Forum Building and the Beijing Olympics stadium suggest a changing attitude. Though their commitment to the primacy of materiality shows through all their projects, the manipulation of form has gone from boxy modernism to volumetric prisms of equal if not greater presence. The architects often cite Joseph Beuys as an enduring artistic inspiration and collaborate with different artists on each architectural project. Their success can be attributed to their skills in revealing unfamiliar or unknown relationships through familiar materials. ...more on Wikipedia about "Herzog & de Meuron"

Ieoh Ming Pei ( ; b. April 26, 1917) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. He works with the abstract form, using stone, concrete, glass, and steel. Pei is one of the most successful architects of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "I. M. Pei"

James Frazer Stirling ( 1926 - 1992) was one of Britain's most important architects starting from the 1960s. Stirling was born in Glasgow, but raised in Liverpool. He obtained his architecture degree at Liverpool University and set up office in London. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1981. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Stirling (architect)"

Jørn Utzon (b April 9, 1918) is a Danish architect best known for his groundbreaking design for the Sydney Opera House. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jørn Utzon"

Kenzo Tange (丹下健三, Tange Kenzō; September 4, 1913 - March 22, 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kenzo Tange"

Kevin Roche (b. June 14, 1922 in Dublin, Ireland) is a late- twentieth-century corporate architect famous for his creative work with glass. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kevin Roche"

Luis Barragán ( Guadalajara, March 9 1902 - Mexico City, November 22 1988) was one of the most important Mexican architects of the 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Luis Barragán" Don't hesitate to contact stuff on http://www.shortopedia.com shortopedia

Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM (born 1 June 1935) is a British architect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Norman Foster"

Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho (born December 15, 1907) is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture. He was a pioneer in the exploration of the constructive possibilities of reinforced concrete. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oscar Niemeyer"

Philip Cortelyou Johnson ( July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. The first director of the architecture department at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) in 1946, and later a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1978 and the first Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1979. He was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. ...more on Wikipedia about "Philip Johnson"

José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He has taught architecture at various locations around the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rafael Moneo"

Rem Koolhaas (born november 17 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch architect, former journalist and screenwriter who studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO. He is also "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rem Koolhaas"

Renzo Piano (born September 14, 1937) is a famous architect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Renzo Piano"

Richard Meier (born October 12 1934 in Newark, New Jersey) is a late twentieth century American architect known for his use of the color white. He achieved a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957. Identified as one of The New York Five in 1972, his commission of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, CA catapulted his popularity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Richard Meier"

Robert Charles Venturi ( June 25, 1925 -) is a Philadelphia-based architect who worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn before forming his own firm with John Rauch. As a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, Venturi met his future wife, the architect and planner Denise Scott Brown, who joined the firm in 1967. After Rauch's resignation in 1989, the firm took its current form and was named Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.. Robert Venturi won the Pritzker Prize in 1991. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Venturi"

Tadao Ando (安藤忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture is sometimes categorised as Critical Regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as truck driver and boxer before settling on the profession of architecture without having taken formal training. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tadao Ando"

Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1944 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Thom Mayne"

Zaha Hadid ( Arabic: زها حديد) (born October 31, 1950) is a notable British deconstructivist architect. ...more on Wikipedia about "Zaha Hadid"

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