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June 2, 2011
Entertainment & Arts
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal take architecture’s top honor for work that includes the Palais de Tokyo rehab and social housing preservation
March 16, 2021
Architecture: Sverre Fehn’s modernist work wins his profession’s top prize: the Pritzker.
April 14, 1997
Pritzker Prize jury won’t retroactively honor Denise Scott Brown
June 17, 2013
Organizers of the Pritzker Architecture Prize — the highest award in the field of architecture — have turned down a request to retroactively honor Denise Scott Brown, whose design partner and husband Robert Venturi received the award in 1991.
Frei Otto, the German architect and engineer best known for his tent-like structures for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, has been posthumously named the 2015 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in architecture.
March 10, 2015
March 7, 2018
Alejandro Aravena, a 48-year-old architect based in Santiago, Chile, on Wednesday was named the winner of the Pritzker Prize, the top honor in the field.
Jan. 13, 2016
Feb. 27, 2012
When Alejandro Aravena began studying architecture at Santiago’s prestigious Catholic University in the 1980s, the strongman Augusto Pinochet was still clinging to power.