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Cultured Traveler: Brad Pitt's Gifts to New Orleans...residents. A sign in front of each of the houses gives the name and city of its architect. One, called the Float House, was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne of Los Angeles. The main part of the house is built to rise with... In this article: New Orleans, Brad Pitt, Thom Mayne, Lower Ninth Ward, and New York |
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Cool Hunting | 2 days ago
MAXXI Art Museum
Designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Zaha Hadid, the new MAXXI (National Museum of the Arts of the 21st Century) is the newest astonishing piece of architecture in Rome. With a planned opening in spring 2010, it will house collections of...
In this article: Art museum, Zaha Hadid, Torino, National Museum, and Rome
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Boston Globe -- Travel | 3 days ago
A striking new space in Rome
...STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING The entrance hall of Maxxi National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, designed by Pritzker Prize winner Zaha Hadid. (Christophe Simon/AFP/Getty Images) Maxxi National Museum of 21st Century...
In this article: Rome, Mr. Natural, Zaha Hadid, London, Yahweh, University of California at Los Angeles, Fritz the Cat, and R. Crumb
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washingtonpost.com | November 21, 2009
The Impulsive Traveler: Dallas Art District offers sculpture, music and more
...the new wave of buildings. Next door to the Symphony Center is the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, created by yet another Pritzker-prize winner, Norman Foster. Its signature red cylindrical drum, lit up at night, juts up from...
In this article: Texas, Norman Foster, Dallas, Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Ice cream, and Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts
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Centre Daily Times | November 16, 2009
Zaha Hadid Architects Develops Visionary Buildings with Software from Dassault Systèmes Partner Gehry Technologies
...practice of more than 300 professionals under the leadership of internationally acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid. Recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize and the only woman to have received it, Zaha Hadid consistently pushes the boundaries...
In this article: Dassault Systemes, Catia, Digital Project, Zaha Hadid, Product lifecycle management, SolidWorks, and Frank Gehry
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Collegiate Times | November 16, 2009
Women in architecture honored
...in this country, now residing in Spain. In the last board of advisers we had ... Martha Thorne. She's the executive director of the Pritzker Prize, and she was in Chicago and now she lives in Madrid. Other advisers: Ute Westrom is from...
In this article: New York and Virginia Tech
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TIME | November 15, 2009
Architecture Review: Dallas's New Theater, Opera House
...slapping what looks like AstroTurf on an outdoor terrace at the Wyly. Both of them have scored the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, but, to put it mildly, not for the same reasons. (See the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium.) It goes...
In this article: Dallas, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, New York City, Opera House, Renzo Piano, and I.M. Pei
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The State | November 13, 2009
Italy opens new contemporary arts museum
...in a residential area of Rome. It was designed by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born architect who was the first woman to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 2004. - Pier Paolo Cito /AP Photo Residential apartments in Rome's Flamino...
In this article: Rome, Zaha Hadid, and Italy
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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 through the art of architecture."
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 awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology."
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."
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