US Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer becomes Pritzker Prize chair
Justice Stephen Breyer has been appointed to lead the jury for architecture's most prestigious award. More
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Pritzker Prize-winners' best buildings transformed into animated toy blocks
My First Pritzker is an animation by Andrea Stinga that reimagines the works of architecture's Pritzker Prize-winners as children's building blocks. More
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Balkrishna Doshi wins Pritzker Prize 2018
Indian architect Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi has been named the 2018 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most illustrious award. More
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"RCR's work is under the radar, yet it is stealthily evolving in scale and ambition"
Awarding the Pritzker Prize to little-known RCR Arquitectes is a quiet rebuke against the superficiality and greed that has dominated architectural culture around the world, says Catherine Slessor in this Opinion column. More
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RCR Arquitectes describe ambitions for "architecture that conveys beauty" in Pritzker Prize movies
In this series of movies, Pritzker Prize 2017 laureates Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta describe how nature, landscape and "atmospheres" influence their approach to architecture. More
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Key projects by Pritzker Prize 2017 winner RCR Arquitectes
With the news that little-known Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes has won this year's Pritzker Prize, here's a look at some of the firm's most important projects. More
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RCR Arquitectes wins Pritzker Prize 2017
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta of Spanish studio RCR Arquitectes have been named as the 2017 laureates of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. More
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Pritzker Prize winners hold one-minute silence for Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid 1950-2016: Pritzker Prize laureates paid tribute to Zaha Hadid at a private dinner before this year's Pritzker ceremony in honour of Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, which took place in New York on Monday. More
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Alejandro Aravena makes housing designs available to the public for free
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, this year's Pritzker Prize winner, is releasing a number of his residential designs as an open-source resource to help tackle the global affordable housing crisis. More
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Watch our short video about Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro Aravena
Last week, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. To celebrate, Dezeen has produced this short movie, which serves as an introduction to Aravena's work. More
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Dezeen's new Pinterest board celebrates Pritzker Prize winners past and present
Alejandro Aravena was named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker Prize this week. We've created a Pinterest board of projects by the Chilean architect, as well as buildings by past winners including SANAA, Shigeru Ban and many more.
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Architects "are never taught the right thing" says 2016 Pritzker laureate Alejandro Aravena
Exclusive interview: universities are failing to give architects the training that will enable them to find solutions for an imminent global housing crisis, says 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena. More
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Key projects by 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate Alejandro Aravena
Following the news that Alejandro Aravena will receive this year's Pritzker Prize, here is a look at some of the buildings designed by the Chilean architect during his 22-year career (+ slideshow). More
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Alejandro Aravena named as 2016 Pritzker Prize laureate
Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena has been named as the 2016 recipient of the Pritzker, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel prize, ahead of curating this year's Venice Architecture Biennale. More
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Hadid and Foster lead tributes to "great architect, inventor and gentleman" Frei Otto
Zaha Hadid has paid tribute to "inspirational and enlightening" late German architect Frei Otto, while Norman Foster said Otto's "extraordinary structures altered the nature of architectural form in the 20th century". More
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Frei Otto: a life in projects
Dezeen remembers 2015 Pritzker laureate Frei Otto, who passed away this week at the age of 89, with some of the best projects from his pioneering career as a champion of tensile and membrane architecture and an early adopter of 3D modelling. More
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Frei Otto posthumously named 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate
German architect Frei Otto, who died on Monday aged 89, has been named the 2015 Pritzker Prize laureate. More
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Shigeru Ban to do "smaller number of projects" following Pritzker Prize award
News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has said he intends to work on fewer projects and may reduce the size of his office following his acceptance of the Pritzker Prize, which he says he did not expect to win. More
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Key projects by 2014 Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban
Slideshow feature: following the news that Shigeru Ban will receive this year's Pritzker Prize, here is a look back at some of the buildings designed by the Japanese architect across his 30-year career. More
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Shigeru Ban wins Pritzker Prize 2014
News: Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has been named as the 2014 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. More
