Archinect - News2024-11-05T05:43:09-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/145730933/making-a-pritzker-laureate-martha-thorne-executive-director-of-the-pritzker-architecture-prize-gives-us-an-inside-look-at-the-prestigious-award-on-archinect-sessions-48
"Making A Pritzker Laureate" – Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, gives us an inside look at the prestigious award, on Archinect Sessions #48 Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2016-01-14T18:30:00-05:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/px/pxpdujh8z7jq1ncb.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>When news broke yesterday that <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/145643352/chilean-architect-alejandro-aravena-director-of-this-year-s-venice-biennale-named-2016-pritzker-prize-laureate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alejandro Aravena was the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize</a>, reactions were generally positive, albeit <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/145673128/aravena-s-pritzker-a-critical-round-up" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a bit conflicted</a>. Aravena is most praised, and cited by the <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/51168/pritzker-prize" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pritzker</a>, for his work on social housing projects in his home base of Santiago de Chile, where he operates as the executive director of the "do tank", <a href="http://archinect.com/firms/cover/145731740/elemental-s-a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ELEMENTAL</a>. And few would contest that his work is worthy of the prize, despite the fact that he's only 48.</p><p>But Aravena was also a Pritzker juror from 2009 - 2015, serving alongside jurors who ultimately chose to cite him, and he isn't the first winner to have previously served on the jury. And as a juror, he was a vocal proponent of the Pritzker highlighting more socially-minded, communitarian work. This makes it impossible to ignore criticism that the award tends to stay within a pretty tight-knit circle of practitioners. Often described as the most prestigious architecture award out there, what is the point of the prize nowaday...</p>
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Martha Thorne appointed as new dean of IE School of Architecture Alexander Walter2015-09-14T12:39:00-04:00>2015-09-14T12:39:16-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/99/99979477220a7273373bf1af9f58f079?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>IE University announced the appointment of Martha Thorne as Dean of IE School of Architecture. Martha Thorne has served as the Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize since 2005. She held the position of Associate Curator of the Department of Architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago from 1996 to 2005. [...]
Martha Thorne has formed part of the IE School of Architecture & Design management team since its inception and previously served as Associate Dean for External Relations.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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