
Architect
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The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious international prize for architecture. Architect includes all 42 recipients of the Pritzker Prize, and captures in pictures and their own words their awe-inspiring achievements. Organized in reverse chronological order by laureate each chapter features four to six of the architect's major works, including museums, libraries, hotels, places of worship, and more. The text, culled from notebooks, interviews, articles, and speeches illuminates the architects' influences and inspirations, personal philosophy, and aspirations for his own work and the future of architecture. The book includes More than 1000 stunning photographs, blueprints, sketches, and CAD drawings.Architect offers an unprecedented view into the minds of some of the most creative thinkers, dreamers, and builders of the last three decades and reveals that buildings are political, emotional, and spiritual.
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Grace Ong Yan is an architectural historian and architect who is currently teaching at IE University in Segovia, Spain, and at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia. Previously, Dr. Ong Yan taught at Parsons School of Design, SUNY Buffalo, and Yale University, among others. She has practiced architecture in the offices of Renzo Piano and I.M. Pei, and is the author of a forthcoming book on corporate modernism and branding. Dr. Ong Yan received her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, and her M.Arch. at Yale University. She and her family live in Philadelphia.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- EPIGRAPH
- FOREWORD BY MARTHA THORNE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE PRITZKER AR CHITECTURE PRIZE
- NOTE TO THE UPDATED EDITION
- INTRODUCTION BY RUTH PELTASON AND GRACE ONG YAN
- 2017 RAFAEL ARANDA, CARME PIGEM, RAMON VILALTA
- 2016 ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
- 2015 FREI OTTO
- 2014 SHIGERU BAN
- 2013 TOYO ITO
- 2012 WANG SHU
- 2011 EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA
- 2010 KAZUYO SEJIMA + RYUE NISHIZAWA
- 2009 PETER ZUMTHOR
- 2008 JEAN NOUVEL
- 2007 RICHARD ROGERS
- 2006 PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA
- 2005 THOM MAYNE
- 2004 ZAHA HADID
- 2003 JØRN UTZON
- 2002 GLENN MURCUTT
- 2001 JACQUES HERZOG & PIERRE DE MEURON
- 2000 REM KOOLHAAS
- 1999 NORMAN FOSTER
- 1998 RENZO PIANO
- 1997 SVERRE FEHN
- 1996 RAFAEL MONEO
- 1995 TADAO ANDO
- 1994 CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC
- 1993 FUMIHIKO MAKI
- 1992 ALVARO SIZA
- 1991 ROBERT VENTURI
- 1990 ALDO ROSSI
- 1989 FRANK O. GEHRY
- 1988 GORDON BUNSHAFT
- 1988 OSCAR NIEMEYER
- 1987 KENZO TANGE
- 1986 GOTTFRIED BÖHM
- 1985 HANS HOLLEIN
- 1984 RICHARD MEIER
- 1983 I.M. PEI
- 1982 KEVIN ROCHE
- 1981 JAMES STIRLING
- 1980 LUIS BARRAGÁN
- 1979 PHILIP JOHNSON
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PHOTOGRAPHY AND TEXT CREDITS
- NEWSLETTERS
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