PRITZKER PRIZE LAUREATES

YEAR 1979 TO YEAR2019

PHILIP JOHNSON, 1979
- AT& T
- Johnson House (Glass house)
New Canaan, Connecticut
- International Place, Boston
- Crystal Cathedral, California
- United Bank Center Tower, Denver
- Tycon Towers, Virginia
- PPG,Pittsburgh
- National Center for PerformingArts,
Bombay
- Water Garden, Forthworth, Texas
- Dade County Cultural Center, Miami

AT& TBuilding
Now, 550 MadisonAvenue
Previous names:
Sony Tower, Sony Building
AT&T
 SEAGRAM BUILDING (1958)
• "I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original. As
Mies van der Rohe said, 'I don't want tobe original. I want to
be good.”
• "Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving
money on heating."
• "Everybody should design their own home. I'm against
architects designing homes. How do I know that you want to
live in a picture-window Colonial? It's silly, but you mightwant
to. Who am I to say?"
• "Architecture is the arrangement of space for excitement"
• "Storms in this house (The Glass House) are horrendous but
thrilling. Glass shatters. Danger is one of the greatest things to
use in architecture."
• "A room is only as good as you feel when you're in it"
• "Merely that a building works is not sufficient."[35]
• "We still have a monumental architecture. To me, the drive for
monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex,
regardless of how we denigrate it."
LMVR and Philip Johnson
LUIS BARRAGAN,1980
-PROMINENT TWENTIETH-CENTURY
MEXICANARCHITECTAND
LANDSCAPEARCHITECT,WASBORN
IN 1902 IN THESTATEOFJALISCO,
MEXICO.
- WASANACCOMPLISHED
HORSEMAN -- BECAMEPARTOFHIS
CREATIVEGENIUS IN EXPRESSING
ARCHITECTURALFORM IN THE
LANDSCAPE.
- CASAANTONIO GALVEZ, MEXICO
- CASA LUIS BARRAGAN,MEXICO

CASALUIS BARRAGAN, MEXICO

Casa Gilardi,Mexico
Casa Gilardi,Mexico
"the responsibility of the modern architect is to create a
community for a modern society,” which emphasizes the
importance for peoples' well-being to bring nature intothe
buildings they inhabit.
KEVIN ROCHE, 1982
Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1922, Roche
received his undergraduate degree in
architecture from the National
University of Dublin in 1945. He
continued his studies in the United
States in 1948 with Mies van derRohe
at Illinois Institute of Technology in
Chicago
Ford Foundation Headquarters
Headquarters for Santander Central Hispano located in Madrid,
Spain
Lucent Technologies in Nuremberg, Germany
Ieoh Ming PeI,1983
Ieoh Ming Pei’s architecture can be
characterized by its faith in modernism,
humanized by its subtlety, lyricism, and
beauty.
Pei's style is described as
thoroughly modernist, with
significant cubist themes. He isknown
for combining traditional architectural
elements with progressivedesigns
based on simple geometric patterns.As
one critic writes: "Pei has beenaptly
described as combining a classical
sense of form with a contemporary
mastery of method.

Bank of China Tower, one of Pei's most

recognized works in the 1990s
Ieoh Ming PeI,1983

The Louvre museum, however, states that the finished pyramid

contains 673 glass panes (603 rhombi (diamond shape
rhomus)and 70 triangles). A higher figure was obtained by
David A. Shugarts, who reports that the pyramid contains 689
pieces of glass.

The Louvre museum, Paris, France

 La Pyramide Inversee

The Louvre museum, Paris, France

Modernist and metabolist
Kenzo Tange, 1987
Kenzo Tange (1913-2005), winner of the
1987 Pritzker Architecture Prize, is one
of Japan’s most honored architects.
Teacher, writer, architect, and urban
planner.
He was born in the small cityof
Imabari, Shikoku Island, Japan in 1913.

Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Office

“I am not attracted to straight angles or
to the straight line, hard and inflexible,
created by man. I am attracted to free-
flowing, sensual curves. The curves that
I find in the mountains of my country, in
the sinuousness of its rivers, in the
waves of the ocean, and on the body of
the beloved woman. Curves make up
the entire Universe, the curved Universe
of Einstein”
Oscar Niemeyer, 1988
Niemeyer designed residential,
commercial and government buildings.
Among them were the residence ofthe
President (Palácio da Alvorada), the
chamber of deputies, the National
Congress of Brazil, the Cathedral of
Brasília (a hyperboloid structure),
diverse ministries. Viewed from above,
the city can be seen to have elements
that repeat themselves in every
building, achieving a formal unity.

Cathedral of Brasília, hyperboloid structure

Oscar Niemeyer, 1988
Behind the construction of Brasília laya
monumental campaign to construct an
entire city in the barren center of the
country, hundreds of kilometers from
any major city
The project adopted a socialist
ideology: in Brasília all theapartments
would be owned by the government
and rented to employees. Brasília did
not have "nobler" regions, meaning
that top ministers and common
laborers would share the same
building.

Brazilian National Museum, Brasília, Brazil

Dancing House, Prague
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California
Rossi - San Cataldo Cemetery
Building at Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin
Church of Light, 1999 OsakaJapan
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth,Texas
Galleria Akka, Osaka, 1988 Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe
Le Corbusier sketches: "I
traced the drawings of his
early period so many times,
that all pages turned
black,"

"in my mind I quite often

wonder how Le Corbusier
would have thought about
this project or that."
The Shard, London
30 St Mary Axe“The Gherkin”, London
HSBCBuilding (Hong Kong)
CCTVHeadquarters, Beijing, China
Prada, Beverly Hills, USA
Second Stage Theatre, New York, USA
Casa da Música Rem Koolhaas Porto, Portugal
De Rotterdam Rem Koolhaas (OMA) Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sydney Opera House, Australia
The Opus, Bussiness Bay, Dubai UAE2018
London Aquatics Centre
Sheikh Zayed Bridge, Abu Dhabi
One Central Park,Australia
Alejandro Aravena
2016 Laureate
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and RamonVilalta
2017 Laureate
“you have to turn down the first large customer. When you,
beginning architects, are approached by someone offering you
a gigantic project in an immensely attractive place, turn them
down. It is a trap. Many talented architects spent the first years
of their careers chasing a chimera. The result was only an
enormous amount of wasted energy, which they could have
invested into small but meaningful projects.” – professor of RCR
Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
2018 Laureate
Qatar National Convention Centre
ART TOWER MITO
LOCATION : JAPAN
The Domus Museum of Mankind has stood in La Coruña, Spain
the building was inaugurated in the mid-1990s.
Centro Cultural Caixa Forum Barcelona
The Nara Centennial Hall in Japan, built in the late 1990s, went up in the prefecture of Nara as the municipality celebrated a century of existence.
The Kitakyushu Central Library in Japan, Arata Isozaki's native country. Construction on the library was completed in the mid-1970s.
The Shanghai Symphony Hall (center) sits like an outsize saddle in the midst of the Chinese metropolis. The concert venue opened just a few years ago.
The Shanghai Symphony Hall (center) sits like an outsize saddle in the midst of the Chinese metropolis. The concert venue opened just a few years ago.
The Palau Sant Jordi, an indoor arena designed by Arata Isozaki that was used for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, which Arata Isozaki designed in the 1980s and which the museum's
director, Klaus Biesenbach, describes as a "jewel out of its time."
The Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology