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ON-LINE MEDIA KIT ANNOUNCING THE 2004 PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE LAUREATE
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This on-line media kit contains all the information you need for publication of the story announcing Zaha Hadid as the first woman recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2004 Laureate. You may print out this information from the screens as you see it, or you may choose to download a pdf of the same information which can then be printed. You will find a project list for which there are individual PDF files that have detailed descriptions and photos provided directly from the office of Zaha Hadid Architects. There are several photos in each project that have been made available for high resolution printing. They are so marked, and have links to the high resolution files so that you may download directly from this web site. All of the images shown in the PDFs are not necessarily available for high resolution printing, but if there is something in particular that you need that does not have a link, you are invited to contact us, and we will try to obtain it. Additional images are available by contacting esto@esto.com.

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Previous Laureates of the Pritzker Prize ............................................ 2-3 Portrait of Zaha Hadid ............................................................................ 4 Media Release Announcing the 2004 Laureate ................................ 5-8 Members of the Pritzker Jury .................................................................. 9 Citation from Pritzker Jury ...................................................................10 Comments from Individual Jurors .................................................. 11-12 Biography in Brief/Fact Sheet ........................................................ 13-14 Projects List with links to Descriptions/Photos ...................................15 2004 Ceremony in St. Petersburg ................................................... 16-17 History of the Pritzker Prize ............................................................ 18-19 Images of the Pritzker Medal ................................................................20
Note to Editors: Complete details on the history of the Pritzker Prize and previous laureates, see www.pritzkerprize.com.

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R E V I O U S

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1979

A U R E A T E S

Philip Johnson of the United States of America

presented at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1980

Luis Barragn of Mexico

presented at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. 1981

James Stirling of the United Kingdom

presented at the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. 1982

Kevin Roche of the United States of America

presented at The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 1983

Ieoh Ming Pei of the United States of America

presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York 1984

Richard Meier of the United States of America

presented at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1985

Hans Hollein of Austria

presented at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California 1986

Gottfried Bhm of Germany

presented at Goldsmiths Hall, London, United Kingdom 1987

Kenzo Tange of Japan

presented at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas 1988

Gordon Bunshaft of the United States of America and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil
presented at The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 1989

Frank O. Gehry of the United States of America

presented at the Todai-ji Buddhist Temple, Nara, Japan 1990

Aldo Rossi of Italy

presented at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

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1991

A U R E A T E S

Robert Venturi of the United States of America

presented at Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, Mexico 1992

Alvaro Siza of Portugal

presented at the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois 1993

Fumihiko Maki of Japan

presented at Prague Castle, Czech Republic 1994

Christian de Portzamparc of France

presented at The Commons, Columbus, Indiana 1995

Tadao Ando of Japan

presented at the Grand Trianon and the Palace of Versailles, France 1996

Rafael Moneo of Spain

presented at the construction site of The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California 1997

Sverre Fehn of Norway

presented at the construction site of The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain 1998

Renzo Piano of Italy

presented at the White House, Washington, D.C. 1999

Sir Norman Foster (Lord Foster) of the United Kingdom

presented at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany 2000

Rem Koolhaas of The Netherlands

presented at The Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel 2001

Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Switzerland

presented at Thomas Jeffersons Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia 2002

Glenn Murcutt of Australia

presented at Michelangelos Campidoglio in Rome, Italy 2003

Jrn Utzon of Denmark

presented at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain

Portrait of Zaha Hadid by Steve Double Click here to download high resolution image.

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Zaha Hadid Becomes the First Woman to Receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize
Los Angeles, CAZaha Hadid, an Iraqi born British citizen has been chosen as the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize marking the first time a woman has been named for this 26 year old award. Hadid, who is 53, has completed one project in the United States, the Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio; and is currently developing another to co-exist with a Frank Lloyd Wright structure, the Price Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Her other completed projects in Europe include a fire station for the Vitra Furniture Company in Weil am Rhein, Germany; LFone/ Landesgartenschau, an exhibition building to mark the 1999 garden festival in that same city; a car park and terminus Hoenheim North, a park and ride and tramway on the outskirts of Strasbourg, France; and a ski jump situated on the Bergisel Mountain overlooking Innsbruck, Austria. She has numerous other projects in various stages of development including a building for BMW in Leipzig, and a Science Center in Wolfsburg, both in Germany; a National Center of Contemporary Arts in Rome; a Master Plan for Bilbao, Spain; a Guggenheim Museum for Taichung, Taiwan; and a high speed train station outside Naples; and a new public archive, library and sport center in Montpellier, France. In announcing the jurys choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, said, It is gratifying to us as sponsors of the prize to see our very independent jury honor a woman for the first time. Although her body of work is relatively small, she has achieved great acclaim and her energy and ideas show even greater promise for the future. Pritzker Prize jury chairman, Lord Rothschild, commented, At the same time as her theoretical and academic work, as a practicing architect, Zaha Hadid has been unswerving in her commitment to
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modernism. Always inventive, shes moved away from existing typology, from high tech, and has shifted the geometry of buildings. Continuing, Lord Rothschild said, In her fourth year at the Architectural Association in London, as a student of Rem Koolhaas (himself a recent recipient of the Pritzker Prize) her graduation project was called Malevichs Tectonik. She placed a hotel on the Hungerford Bridge on the Rivers Thames, drawing from suprematist forms to meet the demands of the programme and the site. Its a happy coincidence therefore that this years prize ceremony should be taking place in St. Petersburg, Russia, where Malevich lived and worked, a city of extraordinary beauty and originality. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture's highest honor will be held on May 31, 2004. At that time, a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion will be bestowed in the State Hermitage Museum followed by a reception and dinner in the Grand Peterhof Palace. The prize presentation ceremony moves to different locations around the world each year, paying homage to historic and contemporary architecture. Juror Frank Gehry, who is also the 1989 Pritzker Laureate, said, The 2004 laureate is probably one of the youngest laureates and has one of the clearest architectural trajectories weve seen in many years. Each project unfolds with new excitement and innovation." A new juror this year, journalist Karen Stein who is editorial director of Phaidon Press, commented, Over the past 25 years, Zaha Hadid has built a career on defying conventionconventional ideas of architectural space, of practice, of representation and of construction. Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of the board of Vitra, who also became a juror this year, said, Without ever building, Zaha Hadid would have radically expanded architectures repertoire of spatial articulation. Now that the implementation in complex buildings is happening, the power of her innovation is fully revealed." Juror and architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable said of the choice, Zaha Hadid is one of the most gifted practitioners of the art of architecture today. From the earliest drawings and models to current buildings and work in progress, there has been a consistently original and strong personal vision that has changed the way we see and experience space. Hadids fragmented geometry and fluid mobility do more than create an abstract, dynamic beauty; this is a body of
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work that explores and expresses the world we live in. Another juror, Carlos Jimenez from Houston who is professor of architecture at Rice University, said, Presaged by an inimitable graphic and formal exuberance, Zaha Hadids work reminds us that architecture is a siphon for collective energies, a far cry from the stand alone building, perennially oblivious to the vitality of the city. And from juror Jorge Silvetti, who is a Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Zaha Hadids buildings are today among the most convincing arguments for the primacy of architecture in the production of space. What she has achieved with her inimitable manipulation of walls, ground planes and roofs, with those transparent, interwoven and fluid spaces, are vivid proof that architecture as a fine art has not run out of steam and is hardly wanting in imagination. " Bill Lacy, an architect, spoke as the executive director of the Pritzker Prize, Only rarely does an architect emerge with a philosophy and approach to the art form that influences the direction of the entire field. Such an architect is Zaha Hadid who has patiently created and refined a vocabulary that sets new boundaries for the art of architecture. The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. The prize was established in 1979 by The Hyatt Foundation. Hadid is the third architect from the United Kingdom to be awarded the Pritzker Prize: the late James Stirling of Great Britain was elected in 1981, and in 1999 Lord (then Sir Norman) Foster. Philip Johnson was the first Pritzker Laureate in 1979. The late Luis Barragn of Mexico was named in 1980. Kevin Roche in 1982, Ieoh Ming Pei in 1983, and Richard Meier in 1984. Hans Hollein of Austria was the 1985 Laureate. Gottfried Bhm of Germany received the prize in 1986. Kenzo Tange was the first Japanese architect to receive the prize in 1987; Fumihiko Maki was the second from Japan in 1993; and Tadao Ando the third in 1995. Robert Venturi received the honor in 1991, and Alvaro Siza of Portugal in 1992. Christian de Portzamparc of France was elected Pritzker Laureate in 1994. The late Gordon
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Bunshaft of the United States and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil, were named in 1988. Frank Gehry was the recipient in 1989, the late Aldo Rossi of Italy in 1990. In 1996, Rafael Moneo of Spain was the Laureate; in 1997 Sverre Fehn of Norway; in 1998 Renzo Piano of Italy, and in 2000, Rem Koolhaas of the Netherlands. In 2001, two architects from Switzerland received the honor: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. Australian Glenn Murcutt won the prize in 2002. Danish architect Jrn Utzon was chosen in 2003. The field of architecture was chosen by the Pritzker family because of their keen interest in building due to their involvement with developing the Hyatt Hotels around the world; also because architecture was a creative endeavor not included in the Nobel Prizes. The procedures were modeled after the Nobels, with the final selection being made by the international jury with all deliberations and voting in secret. Nominations are continuous from year to year with hundreds of nominees from countries all around the world being considered each year. ###

T he bronze medallion awarded to each Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is based on designs of Louis Sullivan, famed Chicago architect generally acknowledged as the father of the skyscraper. On one side is the name of the prize. On the reverse, three words are inscribed, fir mness, commodity and delight, T hese are the three conditions referred to by Henr y Wotton in his 1624 treatise, The Elements of Architecture, which was a translation of thoughts originally set down nearly 2000 years ago by Marcus Vitruvius in his Ten Books on Architecture, dedicated to the Roman Emperor Augustus. Wotton, who did the translation when he was Englands first ambassador to Venice, used the complete quote as: T he end is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, fir mness and delight. ``````

THE J URY

C HAIRMAN The Lord Rothschild

Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery Former Chairman, National Heritage Memorial Fund London, England

Rolf Fehlbaum
Chairman of the Board, Vitra Germany

Frank O. Gehry
Architect and Pritzker Laureate 1989 Los Angeles, California

Ada Louise Huxtable

Author and Architectural Critic New York, New York

Carlos Jimenez
Professor, Rice University School of Architecture Principal, Carlos Jimenez Studio Houston, Texas

Karen Stein
Editorial Director Phaidon Press New York, New York

Jorge Silvetti
Professor of Architecture Harvard University, Graduate School of Design Cambridge, Massachusetts

E XECUTIVE D IRECTOR Bill Lacy

State University of New York at Purchase Purchase, New York
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Citation from the Jury

The architectural career of Zaha Hadid has not been traditional or easy. She entered the field with illustrious credentials. Born in Baghdad, she studied at the highly regarded Architectural Association in London, was a partner in the avant gard Office of Metropolitan Architecture with Rem Koolhaas, and has held prestigious posts at one time or another at the worlds finest universities including Harvard, Yale, and many others. Much admired by the younger generation of architects, her appearance on campuses is always a cause for excitement and overflowing audiences. Her path to world-wide recognition has been an heroic struggle as she inexorably rose to the highest ranks of the profession. Clients, journalists, fellow professionals are mesmerized by her dynamic forms and strategies for achieving a truly distinctive approach to architecture and its settings. Each new project is more audacious than the last and the sources of her originality seem endless. Ms. Hadid has become more and more recognized as she continues to win competition after competition, always struggling to get her very original winning entries built. Discouraged, but undaunted, she has used the competition experiences as a laboratory for continuing to hone her exceptional talent in creating an architectural idiom like no other. It is not surprising that one of the architects whose work Ms. Hadid admires is another Pritzker Prize winner, the preeminent South American author of Brasilia, and other major works Oscar Niemeyer. They share a certain fearlessness in their work and both are unafraid of risk that comes inevitably with their respective vocabularies of bold visionary forms. The competition winning phase of Ms. Hadids career gradually began to result in built works such as the Vitra Fire Station, the LFone in Weil am Rhein, the Mind Zone in the Millennium Dome and reached a recent high point with the opening of the critically acclaimed Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. The full dimensions of Ms. Hadids prodigious artistic outpouring of work is apparent not only in architecture, but in exhibition designs, stage sets, furniture, paintings, and drawings. The jury is pleased to acknowledge one of the great architects at the dawning of the 21st century by awarding the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize to Zaha Hadid, to commend her extraordinary achievements, and to wish her continued success.

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Note to editors: The following are some additional comments from individual Pritzker Prize Jurors:

For the first time, a woman and a very remarkable one has been awarded the Pritzker Prize. Zaha Hadid, born in Iraq, has worked throughout her life in London but such are the forces of conservatism that sadly one cannot find one single building of hers in the capital city where she has made her home. For more than a decade she was admired for her genius in envisioning spaces which lesser imaginations believed could not be built. For those who were prepared to take the risk from Vitras Fire Station to a ski jump on a mountain side in Austria, to a tram station in France, and more recently to a museum building in a town in the deep mid-west of the United States, the impact has been transforming. At the same time as her theoretical and academic work, as a practising architect she has been unswerving in her commitment to modernism. Always inventive, shes moved away from existing typology, from high tech, and has shifted the geometry of buildings. No project of hers is like the one before, but the defining characteristics remain consistent.

Lord Jacob Rothshild Pritzker Jury Chairman

Zaha Hadid is one of the most gifted practitioners of the art of architecture today. From the earliest drawings and models to current buildings and work in progress, there has been a consistently original and strong personal vision that has changed the way we see and experience space. Hadids fragmented geometry and fluid mobility do more than create an abstract, dynamic beauty; this is a body of work that explores and expresses the world we live in.

Ada Louise Huxtable Pritzker Juror

"Presaged by an inimitable graphic and formal exuberance, Zaha Hadids work reminds us that architecture is a siphon for collective energies, a far cry from the stand alone building, perennially oblivious to the vitality of the city. Buildings for Hadid are thresholds, passageways, that reveal or intersect the ever shifting actions of the city. Her work celebrates this encounter as the catalyst through which hidden, past, present or future events revolve. "

Carlos Jimenez Pritzker Juror

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Over the past 25 years, Zaha Hadid has built a career on defying convention conventional ideas of architectural space, of practice, of representation and of construction. It is not, however, that we admire the radical merely for its own sake, but rather recognize here a particularly exquisite balance of extremes that is indeed revolutionary. The work, like the person, is not easily categorized: outrageous yet thoughtful, otherworldly yet deeply rooted in historical tradition, one of a kind yet a role model for a generation, fluid in effect yet leaving a powerfully fixed impression, but above all characterized by a daring, restless energy that stretches known limits of architecture and soars.

Karen Stein Pritzker Juror

The 2004 laureate is probably one of the youngest laureates and has one of the clearest architectural trajectories weve seen in many years. Each project unfolds with new excitement and innovation."

Frank Gehry Pritzker Juror

Zaha Hadids buildings are today among the most convincing arguments for the primacy of architecture in the production of space. What she has achieved with her inimitable manipulation of walls, ground planes and roofs, with those transparent, interwoven and fluid spaces, are vivid proof that architecture as a fine art has not run out of steam and is hardly wanting in imagination. I gave my vote this year to Zaha as a tribute to her talent, to the role model she represents, to the optimism that her work exudes, and to the integrity and uncompromising ethic stands she has taken in defense of architectural imagination and freedom."

Jorge Silvetti Pritzker Juror

Without ever building, Zaha Hadid would have radically expanded architectures repertoire of spatial articulation. Now that the implementation in complex buildings is happening, the power of her innovation is fully revealed."

Rolf Fehlbaum Pritzker Juror

Only rarely does an architect emerge with a philosophy and approach to the art form that influences the direction of the entire field. Such an architect is Zaha Hadid who has patiently created and refined a vocabulary that sets new boundaries for the art of architecture.

Bill Lacy Executive Director

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Zaha Hadid Biography in Brief

Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987. More recently, she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of Architecture in Chicago; and has held guest professorships at the Hochschule fr Bildende Knste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture and a Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and is the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2004 at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Hadid has become known as an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works, her central concerns involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research.

Built Works
Zaha Hadids built work has won her much academic and public acclaim. Her best known projects to date are the Vitra Fire Station and the LFone pavilion in Weil am Rhein, Germany (1993/1999), the Mind Zone at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London, UK (1999), a Tram Station and
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Car Park in Strasbourg, France (2001), a Ski Jump in Innsbruck, Austria (2002) and the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, US (2003). She has also completed furniture and interiors: Bitar, London (1985); Moonsoon Restaurant, Sapporo (1990); Z-Play (2002) and Z-Scape (2000) furniture manufactured by Sawaya and Moroni; and the Tea and Coffee Towers for Alessi (2003). Her temporary structures include: Folly in Osaka (1990); Music Video Pavilion in Groningen, Netherlands (1990); a Pavilion for Blueprint Magazine at Interbuild, Birmingham (1995); the installation Meshworks at the Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (2000) the summer pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2000); and the R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain (2001). Zaha Hadid has also worked on a number of stage sets: Pet Shop Boys World Tour (1999/2000); Metapolis, for Charleroi Dance production company, Belgium (2000); and Beat Furrers opera, Desire, commissioned by the Steirischer Herbst, Graz (2003), and an Ice and Snow Installation in Lapland.

Current Projects
Zaha Hadids office is working on a variety of projects: the Contemporary Arts Centre MAXXI in Rome, Italy; the Ordrupgaard Museum extension in Copenhagen, Denmark; a Guggenheim Museum in Taichung; a Science Centre in Wolfsburg, Germany; a Maritime Ferry Terminal in Salerno, Italy; a High Speed Train Station in NapoliAfragola, Italy; a public square and cinema complex in Barcelona, Spain; a masterplan for Singapores Science Hub; a masterplan for Bilbaos Zorrozaurre district, Spain; a masterplan for Beijings Soho City, China; the interior design for Hotel Puerta America in Madrid, Spain; a Central Plant Building for BMW in Leipzig, Germany; a social housing project Spittelau Viaduct in Vienna, Austria; a major bridge structure in Abu Dhabi; the Maggies Centre in Kirkcaldy, Scotland; an extension of the Price Tower Arts Centre in Bartlesville, USA; the Opera House in Guangzhou, China; and a new archive, library, and sport center in Montpellier, France.

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Project List Each of the following projects has its own description (with photos) in PDF form which have been provided by Zaha Hadids office. By placing your cursor on the project title, you can click on the link to open the full description. Most browsers open in a large scale, so you may have to change the size in Acrobat to fit in window to see the whole page. There are several pages with photos and descriptions. Usually on the last page of the pdf, there are thumbnails of all the images. If you need high resolution photos for printing in your publication or for use on air, you will find certain of the thumbnails have blue outlines. By clicking on any of the outlined photos, you will be linked to a high resolution image file that is in eps format (which can be converted in Photoshop to whatever format you prefer). When the file download box comes up, you then click on save. When the save as box comes up, some browsers change the extension to ps in the file name box, simply change ps to eps and go ahead with the download, navigating to where you want to save the file. If publishing any photos, please be sure to use the photo credit given for the photographer.

Built Projects Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany LFone Landesgartenschau, Weil am Rhein, Germany Car Park and Terminus, Strasbourg, France Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck, Austria The Richard and Lois Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Current Projects BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany Maxxi: National Centre of Contemporary Arts, Rome, Italy Phaeno Science Center Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Guggenheim Museum, Taichung, Taiwan High Speed Train Station Napoli-Afragola, Naples, Italy New Archive, Library and Sport Center, Montpellier, France Zorrozaurre Master Plan, Bilbao, Spain Price Tower Arts Centre, Batlesville, Oklahoma, USA Unbuilt Projects Cardiff Opera House, Cardiff, Wales, UK The Peak, Hong Kong KMR, Art and Media Centre, Dusseldorf, Germany Malevichs Tektonik, London, UK
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2004 Pritzker Prize Ceremony Will Be Held in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
The State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg, Russia will be the site for the ceremony awarding the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize to Zaha Hadid on Monday, May 31. The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect for lifetime achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. Often referred to as architectures Nobel and the professions highest honor, the Pritzker Prize has been awarded to seven Americans, and (including this year) twenty-two architects from fourteen other countries. The presentation ceremonies move around the world each year, paying homage to the architecture of other eras and/or works by previous laureates of the prize. It is particularly appropriate for the pre-eminent prize in architecture to be holding its annual ceremony in this city acclaimed for its beauty since its inception three centuries ago, explained Lord Rothschild, the chairman of the Pritzker Architecture Prize jury. And even more so since St. Petersburg has been celebrating the 300 th anniversary of its founding. Echoing those words, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation which sponsors the prize, noted, We have just celebrated our 25 th anniversary, making us mere babes in the woods compared to St. Petersburg. But our mission is to honor living architects so that in the future, perhaps they will not fade into anonymity, as many of the great architects of world landmarks have done. We are honored that Professor Piotrovsky, the director of the State Hermitage Museum, has invited us to hold our ceremony there. Over the years, these events have evolved, becoming, in effect, an international grand tour of architecture. Professor Mikail B. Piotrovsky responded, We are very pleased that the Pritzker Prize ceremony, which has been held in many distinguished places is now coming to St. Petersburg. The State Hermitage Museum, a great museum and architectural monument comprising several epochs and styles, is particularly welcoming architects and lovers of architecture from around the world for that remarkable celebration. As the ceremony locations are usually chosen each year before the laureate is selected, there is no intended connection beyond the two. Retrospectively, buildings by Laureates of the Pritzker Prize, such as the National Gallery of Arts East Building designed by I.M. Pei, or Richard Meiers Getty Center in Los Angeles, and Frank Gehrys Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain have all been award sites. There is a tradition of moving the ceremony to sites of historic and/or architectural significance around the world. It was held twice in Italy, the first
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being in 1990 at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice when the late Aldo Rossi received the prize. The second time was in 2002 when Glenn Murcutt received the award in Michelangelos Campidoglio Square in Rome. In some instances, places of historic interest such as Frances Palace of Versailles and Grand Trianon, Todai-ji Buddhist Temple in Japan, or Prague Castle in The Czech Republic have been chosen as ceremony venues. Some of the most beautiful museums have hosted the event, including the already mentioned Palazzo Grassi: Chicagos Art Institute (using the Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room designed by Louis Sullivan and his partner, Dankmar Adler, which was preserved when the Stock Exchange building was torn down in 1972. The Trading Room was then reconstructed in the museums new wing in 1977). New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art provided the setting in 1982 using Laureate Kevin Roches pavilion for the Temple of Dendur. In homage to the late Louis Kahn, the ceremony was held in Fort Worths Kimbell Art Museum in 1987. Californias Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens was the setting in l985. In 1992, the just-completed Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago was the location where Alvaro Siza of Portugal received the prize. The 20th anniversary of the prize was hosted at the White House since in a way, the Pritzker Prize roots are in Washington where the first two ceremonies were held. The first being at Dumbarton Oaks, where a major addition to the original estate, had been designed by yet another Pritzker Laureate in fact, the first laureate, Philip Johnson. Two other Washington venues, The National Building Museum and the already mentioned National Gallery of Art have both hosted the prize ceremony. Last year, the King and Queen of Spain presided over the ceremony in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, when the Danish architect Jrn Utzon was honored. In 2000 in Jerusalem, the Herodian Street excavation in the shadow of the Temple Mount provided the most ancient of the venues. Just two years ago, the ceremony was held at Monticello, the home designed by Thomas Jefferson, who was not only an architect, but the third president of the United States, who also authored the Declaration of Independence. One of the founding jurors of the Pritzker Prize, the late Lord Clark of Saltwood, as art historian Kenneth Clark, perhaps best known for his television series and book, Civilisation, said at one of the ceremonies, A great historical episode can exist in our imagination almost entirely in the form of architecture. Very few of us have read the texts of early Egyptian literature. Yet we feel we know those infinitely remote people almost as well as our immediate ancestors, chiefly because of their sculpture and architecture. # # #
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A Brief History of the Pritzker Architecture Prize

The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established by The Hyatt Foundation in 1979 to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. It has often been described as architectures most prestigious award or as the Nobel of architecture. The prize takes its name from the Pritzker family, whose international business interests are headquartered in Chicago. They have long been known for their support of educational, religious, social welfare, scientific, medical and cultural activities. Jay A. Pritzker, who founded the prize with his wife, Cindy, died on January 23, 1999. His eldest son, Thomas J. Pritzker has become president of The Hyatt Foundation. He explains, As native Chicagoans, it's not surprising that our family was keenly aware of architecture, living in the birthplace of the skyscraper, a city filled with buildings designed by architectural legends such as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, and many others. He continues, In 1967, we acquired an unfinished building which was to become the Hyatt Regency Atlanta. Its soaring atrium was wildly successful and became the signature piece of our hotels around the world. It was immediately apparent that this design had a pronounced affect on the mood of our guests and attitude of our employees. While the architecture of Chicago made us cognizant of the art of architecture, our work with designing and building hotels made us aware of the impact architecture could have on human behavior. So in 1978, when we were approached with the idea of honoring living architects, we were responsive. Mom and Dad (Cindy and the late Jay A. Pritzker) believed that a meaningful prize would encourage and stimulate not only a greater public awareness of buildings, but also would inspire greater creativity within the architectural profession. He went on to add that he is extremely proud to carry on that effort on behalf of his mother and the rest of the family. Many of the procedures and rewards of the Pritzker Prize are modeled after the Nobel Prize. Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize receive a $100,000 grant, a formal citation certificate, and since 1987, a bronze medallion. Prior to that year, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture was presented to each Laureate. Nominations are accepted from all nations; from government officials, writers, critics, academicians, fellow architects, architectural societies, or industrialists, virtually anyone who might have an interest in advancing great architecture. The prize is awarded irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology. The nominating procedure is continuous from year to year, closing in January each year. Nominations received after the closing are automatically considered in the following calendar year. There are well over 500 nominees from more than 47 countries to date. The final selection is made by an international jury with all deliberation and voting in secret.

The Evolution of the Jury

The first jury assembled in 1979 consisted of the late J. Carter Brown, then director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; J. Irwin Miller, then chairman of the executive and finance committee of Cummins Engine Company; Cesar Pelli, architect and at the time, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture; Arata Isozaki, architect from Japan; and the late Kenneth Clark (Lord Clark of Saltwood), noted English author and art historian. The jury that selected Zaha Hadid as the 2004 laureate comprises the chairman, Lord Rothschild, former chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and former chairman of the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London; Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of the board of Vitra in Germany; Frank Gehry, architect and 1989 Prtizker Laureate; Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and architectural critic; Carlos Jimenez, a principal of Carlos Jimenez Studio and professor at the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, Texas; and Jorge Silvetti, architect and professor of architecture, Department of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design; and Karen Stein, editorial director of Phaidon Press, New York.
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Others who have served include the late Thomas J. Watson, Jr., former chairman of IBM; the late Giovanni Agnelli, former chairman of Fiat; Toshio Nakamura, former editor of A+U in Japan; and American architects Philip Johnson and Kevin Roche; as well as architects Ricardo Legorreta of Mexico, Fumihiko Maki of Japan, and Charles Correa of India. Bill Lacy, architect and advisor to the J. Paul Getty Trust and many other foundations, as well as a professor at State University of New York at Purchase, is executive director of the prize. Previous secretaries to the jury were the late Brendan Gill, who was architecture critic of The New Yorker magazine; and the late Carleton Smith. From the prize's founding until his death in 1986, Arthur Drexler, who was the director of the department of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was a consultant to the jury.

Television Symposium Marked Tenth Anniversary of the Prize

Architecture has long been considered the mother of all the arts, is how the distinguished jo urnalist Edwin Newman, serving as moderator, opened the television symposium Architecture and the City: Friends or Foes? Building and decorating shelter was one of the first expressions of mans creativity, but we take for granted most of the places in which we work or live, he continued. Architecture has become both the least and the most conspicuous of art forms. With a panel that included three architects, a critic, a city planner, a developer, a mayor, a lawyer, a museum director, an industrialist, an educator, an administrator, the symposium explored problems facing everyone not just those who live in big cities, but anyone involved in community life. Some of the questions discussed: what should be built, how much, where, when, what will it look like, what controls should be allowed, and who should impose them? For complete details on the symposium which was produced in the tenth anniversary year of the prize, please go the "pritzkerprize.com" web site, where you can also view the video tape of the symposium.

Exhibitions and Book on the Pritzker Prize

The Art of Architecture, a circulating exhibition of the work of Laureates of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, had its world premiere at the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago in 1992. The European debut was in Berlin at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in in 1995. It was also shown at the Karntens Haus der Architektur in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1996, and in 1997, in South America, at the Architecture Biennale in Sa Paulo, Brazil. In the U.S. it has been shown at the Gallery of Fine Art, Edison Community College in Ft. Myers, Florida; the Fine Arts Gallery at Texas A&M University; the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.; The J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky; the Canton Art Institute, Ohio; the Indianapolis Museum of Art Columbus Gallery, Indiana; the Washington State University Museum of Art in Pullman, Washington; the University of Nebraska, and Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Its most recent showings were in Costa Mesa, California; and museums in Poland and Turkey. A smaller version of the exhibit was shown at the White House ceremony in 1998, and will be shown this year at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Another exhibition, designed by Carlos Jimenez, titled, The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1979-1999, which was organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and celebrated the first twenty years of the prize and the works of the laureates, was shown in Chicago in 1999 and in Toronto at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2000. It provided, through drawings, original sketches, photographs, plans and models, an opportunity to view some of the most important architects that have shaped the architecture of this century. A book with texts by the late J. Carter Brown, Bill Lacy, British journalist Colin Amery, and William J. R. Curtis, was produced to accompany the exhibition, and is still available. Co-published by Abrams of New York and The Art Institute of Chicago, the 206 page book was edited by co-curator Martha Thorne. It presents an analytical history of the prize along with examples of buildings by the laureates illustrated in full color. The book celebrates the first twenty years of the prize and the works of the laureates, providing an opportunity to analyze the significance of the prize and its evolution.
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The bronze medallion awarded to each Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is based on designs of Louis Sullivan, famed Chicago architect generally acknowledged as the father of the skyscraper. On one side is the name of the prize. On the reverse, three words are inscribed, fir mness, commodity and delight, These are the three conditions refer red to by Henry Wotton in his 1624 treatise, The Elements of Architecture, which was a translation of thoughts originally set down nearly 2000 years ago by Marcus Vitruvius in his Ten Books on Architecture, dedicated to the Roman Emperor Augustus. Wotton, who did the translation when he was Englands first ambassador to Venice, used the complete quote as: The end is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, fir mness and delight.

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