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Archinect readers predict the 2024 Pritzker Prize winner

2024-03-01T14:05:00-05:00

Our annual Archinect readers’ predictions for this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize have once again spurred a lively discussion forum thread full of guesses as to which architect will become the 53rd official laureate when the prize is announced on Tuesday, March 5.

Last year, our social media polls had the eventual winner, David Chipperfield, over a group of frontrunners that mostly carried over to 2024, namely Jeanne Gang, Kengo Kuma, and Bjarke Ingels.

Alejandro Aravena (also the 2016 Pritzker laureate) is the jury chair for the sixth consecutive year, joined by the prize’s Executive Director Manuela Lucá-Dazio; Columbia GSAPP professor Barry Bergdoll; Yale SoA dean Deborah Berke; retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; the critic and Brazilian Ambassador to India André Aranha Corrêa do Lago; and the 2010 and 2012 laureates Kazuyo Sejima and Wang Shu.

Here's what some of the commenters in the discussion thread predicted:

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And the Archinectors predictions for the 2023 Pritzker Prize are...

2023-03-06T19:01:00-05:00

The results are in for Archinect readers’ annual Pritzker Prize predictions!

Following this discussion forum thread and quick social media polling, Archinectors have come up with their best guesses (along with the usual sarcastic responses) as to who will succeed recent laureates Balkrishna Doshi, Lacaton & Vassal, and Diébédo Francis Kéré for architecture’s highest honor before the winner of this year’s prize will be officially announced tomorrow, March 7th.

The polls on Archinect's Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram channels produced a nearly neck-and-neck tie between David Adjaye and David Chipperfield, likely in response to their mid-career and recent works (including the recent Abrahamic Family House and James Simon Gallery, respectively) and ignoring their criticisms and minor controversies. Moshe Safdie, who just published a memoir and opened important new buildings in South America, was another popular name, along with Jeanne Gang and Obama Presidential Center designers TWBT...

Should you pursue architecture if you only want to design?

2020-05-08T14:11:00-04:00

Young 18-year-old evelync asked the Archinect community Wednesday if she should pursue a degree in architecture:

"...I've been thinking about doing an Architecture degree (specifically at UCL) because they seem to embrace creativity and artistic contemporary design which is my only interest with architecture, and I also thought this degree might suit me since it's also science related which I love...I wanted to know from people who are actual architects/architecture students if the reality of architecture is not artistic/creative."

It's a fair question for a young student intrigued by the profession and many had crucial insights. The short answer is no, architecture is definitely not all about the artistic and creative, there are so many more aspects to it. square. provided wise counsel:

"...I only caution you because you are asking from the perspective of someone who loves art, and if you are pursuing architecture because of the artistic side, there is no doubt you will encounter s...