That time of year is here again! Today, Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi was announced as the 2018 Pritzker Prize winner. Dubbed the “Nobel Prize” of architecture, the illustrious $100,000 prize also comes with a formal citation certificate and a bronze medallion based on the designs of iconic architect Louis Sullivan.
Balkrishna Doshi will join the Pritzker's honorary list of laureates, which includes RCR Arquitectes co-founders Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta (who collectively won the 2017 prize), Alejandro Aravena (2016), the late Frei Otto (2015), Shigeru Ban (2014), Toyo Ito (2013), Wang Shu (2012), Eduardo Souto de Moura (2011), SANAA (2010), Peter Zumthor (2009), and Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2006).
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Good choice. Pritzker is a good crit regional prize ... good because that kind of work gets little pop media attention.
Also interesting that the first 5/6 winners were American while only 2 have won since.
Relative to world population, US architects are still way overrepresented.
With some of the shittiest architecture.
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I'm so tired of Kimmel hosting the Pritzies. Bring back Jon Stewart!
I like his work.
Didn't see that one coming at all, impressive body of work. I have a feeling however that the jury was gridlocked and Doshi's the safe compromise everyone could live with in the end.
"Safe compromise" as compared to what? Baby Boy Bjarke?
I don't know, perhaps...it would make sense to me that some jurors would never agree to Bjarke as winner (or a Steven Holl for that matter). Doshi doesn't generate such heated debate, just read the comments.
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