(30th Pritzker Awardee 2008)) “Each new situation
requires a new
He is often described as a architecture.”
master without a style
“I think architecture has to
famous for making buildings be a gift.”
in harmony with the context
“Art should be created for
modernism and post- life, not for the museum.” Institut du Monde Arabe Cartier Foundation for
modernism Contemporary Art
Paris, France Paris, France
“It is not possible to design
Architectural Breakthrough always the same. How to
project: Institute de Monde be different in each
Arabe (Institute of the Arab different place - that is the
World)- 1987 most important work and
duty of the architect to
JEAN NOUVEL find out.”
(1945) “My buildings are more
France famous than me.”
2008 Tower 25
Nemausus I public
Nicosia, Cyprus Torre Agbar
housing
Barcelona, Spain
Nimes, France
(31st Pritzker Awardee 2009) ”Architecture has its
known for his pure, austere place in the concrete
structures, which have been world. This is where it
described as timeless and exists. This is where it
poetic.
makes its statement.”
Minimalist
“In a society that Thermal Bath Vals Homes for Senior Citizens
Architectural Breakthrough celebrates the inessential, Graubünden, Switzerland Chur,Switzerland
project: Protective Housing for architecture can put up a
Roman Excavations in Chur resistance, counteract the
(1986)
waste of forms and
meanings and speak its
own language.”
“I work a little bit like a
sculptor. When I start, my
first idea for a building is Nemausus I public Zumthor Studio
PETER with the material. I believe Spittelhof Estate Graubünden, Switzerland
Biel-Benken, Baselland,
architecture is about that.
ZUMTHOR It's not about paper, it's
Switzerland
(1943) not about forms. It's about
Switzerland space and material.”
2009
Protective Housing for Saint Benedict Chapel
Roman Excavations Sumvitg, Switzerland
Chur, Switzerland
(32nd Pritzker Awardee 2010) “I have a dream that
architecture can bring
something to
In 1995, Kazuyo Sejima and contemporary society.
Ryue Nishizawa founded Architecture is how people
SANAA meet in space.” – Kazuyo
Sejima O-Museum Glass Museum, Toledo
Iida, Nagano, Japan Museum of Art
Toledo, Ohio
21st Century Museum of
Contemporary Art New Museum of
KAZUYO SEJIMA Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Contemporary Art
Japan New York, New York
(1956)
RYUE NISHIZAWA
(1966)
Japan
2010
Zollverein School of The Rolex Learning
Management and Design Center, Ecole
Essen, Germany Polytechnique Federale
Lausanne, Switzerland
(33rd Pritzker Awardee 2011) “I make a project and I
panic. Which is good, it can
known for integrating be a method. First, panic.
the clean lines of Second, conquer panic by
minimalism with such non- working. Third, find ways
minimal elements as colour to solve your doubts.”
and the use of local materials
“There is no ecological House in Serra da Arrábida House in Cascais
architecture, no intelligent Serra da Arrábida, Portugal Cascais, Portugal
architecture and no
sustainable architecture -
there is only good
architecture. There are
always problems we must
not neglect. For example,
energy, resources, costs,
social aspects - one must
EDUARDO SOUTO always pay attention to all
DE MOURA these.”
(1952) Paula Rego Museum
Porto, Portugal “Drawing architecture is a Cinema House Manoel de Oliveira
"schizoid" act: it involves Cascais, Portugal Porto, Portugal
reducing the world to a
2011 piece of paper.”
Burgo Tower Municipal Stadium
Porto, Portugal Braga, Portugal
(34th Pritzker Awardee 2012)
His style combines traditional
materials with modern
design and pushes against the
norms of current Chinese
architectural practices.
Library of Wenzheng College
Suzhou, China
Vertical Courtyard
Apartments
Hangzhou, China
Xiangshan Campus, China
WANG SHU Academy of Art, Phase II
Hangzhou, China
(1963)
China
2012
Ningbo History Museum
Ningbo, China
Ceramic House
Jinhua, China
(35th Pritzker Awardee 2013) “Architects have made
architecture too complex.
JAPANESE Architect We need to simplify it and
use a language that
Architecture Breakthrough: everyone can understand.”
Sendai Mediatheque
“We have to base
Known for CONCEPTUAL architecture on the Sendai Mediatheque
ARCHITECTURE environment.” Sendai-shi, Miyagi, Japan
Toyo Ito's work has drawn on “I would like to use
Tower of Winds
inspiration from the principles architecture to create Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa,
of nature, as evidenced by bonds between people Japan
the unity achieved between who live in cities, and even
organic-like structures, use it to recover the
surface and skin. communities that used to
exist in every single city.”
TOYO ITO Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
“The dreams of the 1960s London, U.K.
(1941)
began to disappear in the
Seoul, SK 1970s. The economy Toyo Ito Museum of
collapsed, and so did the Architecture
2013 optimism of the Imabari-shi, Ehime, Japan
Metabolists.”
Main Stadium for The
World Games 2009
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Meiso no Mori Municipal
Funeral Hall
Gifu, Japan
Tama Art University
Library (Hachiōji campus)
Silver Hut (house) Tokyo, Japan
Nakano-ku, Tokyo, Japan
(36th Pritzker Awardee 2014) “An architect does not
need to spend his whole
JAPANESE Architect career making
monuments for rich
Known as “PAPER TUBE
people.”
ARCHITECT”
focus: designing shelters for “I'm not inventing
the displaced. anything new, I'm just Centre Pompidou-Metz Cardboard Cathedral
using existing material France Christchurch, New Zealand
international breakthrough: differently.”
cardboard tubes.
“Architects mostly work
for privileged people,
people who have money
and power, Power and
money are invisible, so
SHIGERU BAN people hire us to
(1957) visualize their power and
Curtain Wall House Paper Log House
money by making
Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan Bhuj, India
monumental
2014 architecture. I love to
make monuments, too,
but I thought perhaps
we can use our
experience and
knowledge more for the
general public, even for
those who have lost Naked House Paper Church
their houses in natural Saitama, Japan Kobe, Japan
disasters.”
“Everyone used to want
to be star architects.
That's no longer the
case.”
Fujisan World Heritage Center
Aspen Art Museum / by Shigeru Ban Architects
Shigeru Ban Architects
ASPEN, UNITED STATES Fujinomiya, Japan
“My architectural drive
(36th Pritzker Awardee 2014) was to design new types
of buildings to help poor
died days after discovering he people, especially
had been chosen for the following natural
Pritzker Prize disasters and
catastrophes ... I will use
German Architect and whatever time is left to
Structural Engineer me to keep doing what I Diplomatic Club Heart Tent Roofing for main sports
have been doing, which is Riyadh, Saudi Arabia facilities in the Munich
Known for lightweight
to help humanity.” Olympic Park for the 1972
structures, particularly in Summer Olympics
tensile and membrane Munich, Germany
structures
“I have only one dream. It
is the oldest of humanity,
international breakthrough: of man, in time. It is
TENSILE STRUCTURES paradise. I would like to
give paradise to
Mr. Otto’s work grew out of a everyone.”
FREI OTTO time of scarcity after World The 1967 International and
(1925-2015) War II, when a shortage of Buildings are 'humane' Universal Exposition or Expo 67 Hall at the International
construction materials Montreal, Canada Garden Exhibition
Seigmar,Germany only when they promote
Hamburg, Germany
encouraged him to innovate. peaceful human co-
2015 One inspiration, he said, was existence.
the soap bubble, which
showed him how to create the “We have big, big
maximum enclosure with the
problems - flooding,
minimum material.
earthquake, and many
foolish things which now
people are doing - I mean, Japan Pavilion, Expo 2000,
Roof for the Multihalle in
these self-made Mannheim1970–1975 Hannover
Mannheim, Germany Hannover, Germany
catastrophes. We are
able to give to every man Collaboration with Shigeru Ban
on the street the
possibilities to help
himself. And to fight for
this was one of my duties
“My hope is that light,
flexible architecture
Aviary in the Munich Zoo at Umbrellas for Pink Floyd’s 1977
might bring about a new Hellabrunn concert tour of the United States
and open society.” Munich, Germany 1977
