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Pritzker Prize
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor "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...
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Philip Johnson
Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906– January 25, 2005) was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades.
In 1930, he founded the Department...
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Luis Barragán
Luis Barragán Morfin (Guadalajara, March 9, 1902 – Mexico City, November 22, 1988) is considered the most important Mexican architect of the 20th century.
Educated as an engineer, he graduated from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in Guadalajara in...
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James Stirling
Sir James Frazer Stirling FRIBA (22 April 1926 in Glasgow – 25 June 1992 in London) was a British Architect considered to be among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20 century. He is perhaps best known as one of...
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Kevin Roche
Kevin Roche (born June 14, 1922) is an award-winning twentieth-century Irish-American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass.
Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945. He then worked with Michael Scott...
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I. M. Pei
Ieoh Ming Pei (貝聿銘) (born April 26, 1917), commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture.
Pei was born in Canton (pinyin: Guangzhou),...
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Richard Meier
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American architect, whose rationalist buildings make prominent use of the color white.
Meier was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957,...
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Hans Hollein
Hans Hollein, (born March 30, 1934 in Vienna) is an Austrian architect and designer.
Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of...
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Gottfried Böhm
Gottfried Böhm (born January 23, 1920) is a contemporary German architect.
Böhm was born into a family of architects in Offenbach, Hessen. His father, Dominikus Böhm, is renowned for having built several churches throughout Germany. His grandfather...
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Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange (丹下健三, Tange Kenzō, September 4, 1913 – March 22, 2005) was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese...
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Gordon Bunshaft
Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Born in Buffalo, New York where he attended Lafayette High School, an architecturally significant building, Bunshaft...
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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (May 3, 1931 - September 4, 1997) was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.
Rossi was born in...
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Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. (born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia) is an American architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Robert Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, are regarded among the...
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Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, (born 25 June 1933 in Porto-Matosinhos), who signs as Álvaro Siza Vieira (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaɫvɐɾu ˈsizɐ viˈɐiɾɐ]) and is sometimes known as Álvaro Siza, is a contemporary Portuguese...
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Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki (槇文彦, Maki Fumihiko) (born Tokyo, September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect and currently teaching at Keio University SFC. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills,...
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Christian de Portzamparc
Christian de Portzamparc (born May 5, 1944 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French architect and urbanist. He graduated from the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970 and has since been noted for his bold designs and artistic touch; his...
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Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando (安藤 忠雄, Andō Tadao, born September 13, 1941, in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese architect whose approach to architecture was once categorized as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to...
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Rafael Moneo
José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his...
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Sverre Fehn
Sverre Fehn (August 14, 1924 – February 23, 2009) was a Norwegian architect.
Fehn was born in Kongsberg, Buskerud. He received his architectural education shortly after World War II in Oslo, and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his...
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Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano (born 14 September, 1937) is a world renowned Italian architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize. One admirer said the "serenity of his best buildings can almost make you...
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Frank Gehry
Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Canadian Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.
His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions. Many museums, companies, and...
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Sir Norman Foster
Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM, FRIBA, FCSD, RDI, (born 1 June 1935) is a English architect whose company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. In 2009...
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Foster and Partners
Foster + Partners is an architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings. In particular, they are known for their design...
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Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (English pronunciation: /ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born 17 November 1944(1944-11-17)) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design...
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Herzog and de Meuron
Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH (HdeM) is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog (born 19 April 1950), and Pierre de Meuron (born 8...
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Jacques Herzog
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Pierre de Meuron
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Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Murcutt AO (born 25 July 1936) is one of Australia's most notable and famous architects.
Glenn Marcus Murcutt was born in London to Australian parents. He grew up in the Morobe province of Papua New Guinea, where he developed an appreciation...
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Jørn Utzon
Jørn Oberg Utzon, AC (9 April 1918 – 29 November 2008) was a Danish architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When the Sydney Opera House was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, he became only the second...
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Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد), CBE (born 31 October 1950) is a notable British Iraqi deconstructivist architect.
Zaha Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving...
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Thom Mayne
Thom Mayne (b. January 19, 1942 in Waterbury, Connecticut) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect. Educated at University of Southern California (1969) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the...
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Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Paulo Mendes da Rocha (born October 25, 1928 in Vitória) is a Brazilian architect, honored with the Mies van der Rohe Prize (2000) and the Pritzker Prize (2006). Paulo attended the Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie College of Architecture,...
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Richard Rogers
Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, CH, Kt, FRIBA, FCSD, (born 23 July 1933) is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of...
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Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is a British architectural firm based in London. It was previously known as the Richard Rogers Partnership.
Established 30 years ago by Richard Rogers, the firm has offices on Thames Wharf, and in Barcelona, Madrid,...
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Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel (born August 12, 1945) is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture. He has obtained a number of prestigious distinctions over the course...
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Peter Zumthor
Peter Zumthor (born 26 April 1943) is a Swiss architect and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize.
Zumthor was born in Basel, the son of a cabinet-maker. He apprenticed to a carpenter in 1958 and studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in his native city...
