Pritzker Prize Winners

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The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect.

Created in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and run by the Pritzker family, it is one of the world’s premier architecture prizes. The prize is meant to take into account architecture of good quality being built around the world. Thus the winner competes with other good architects on an international level.

Part of the criteria in this prize is the innovative quality and fineness of architectural thought given to accomplish such architectural work. Contributions to the integration of good use of construction technology is also a factor.

The winner receives US$100,000, but more important is the industry-wide fame and subsequent interest from building developers. The Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel Prize of Architecture".

  1. 1979
    Philip Johnson

  2. 1980
    Luis Barragán

  3. 1981
    James Stirling

  4. 1982
    Kevin Roche

  5. 1983
    I.M. Pei

  6. 1984
    Richard Meier

  7. 1985
    Hans Hollein

  8. 1986
    Gottfried Böhm

  9. 1987
    Kenzo Tange

  10. 1988
    Gordon Bunshaft

  11. 1988
    Oscar Niemeyer

  12. 1989
    Frank O. Gehry

  13. 1990
    Aldo Rossi

  14. 1991
    Robert Venturi

  15. 1992
    Álvaro Siza

  16. 1993
    Fumihiko Maki

  17. 1994
    Christian de Portzamparc

  18. 1995
    Tadao Ando

  19. 1996
    Rafael Moneo

  20. 1997
    Sverre Fehn

  21. 1998
    Renzo Piano

  22. 1999
    Norman Foster

  23. 2000
    Rem Koolhaas

  24. 2001
    Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron

  25. 2002
    Glenn Murcutt

  26. 2003
    Jørn Utzon

  27. 2004
    Zaha Hadid

  28. 2005
    Thom Mayne

  29. 2006
    Paulo Mendes da Rocha

  30. 2007
    Richard Rogers

  31. 2008
    Jean Nouvel

  32. 32.
    Peter Zumthor

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Created by cfrydj on Apr 15, 2008.
 

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