Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will join the jury for the Pritzker Prize, architecture's top honor, Pritzker officials announced this morning. Joining Breyer on the eight-person jury will be architect Zaha Hadid, who won the prize in 2004. — latimesblogs.latimes.com
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That's cool... just as long as they add an Architect to the Supreme Court.
Of course the Pritzker prize is the rather antiquated 'fun-time' of a rich family's tangential interest anyway. The prize is pocket change and the award is simply the reification of what we already know... that there are a few architects who get world recognition and a whole discipline of architects who watch complacently from the sidelines. So complacent that the tangentially interested would naturally look to a guy who likes courthouses rather than the people who design them. Perhaps there should also be a curator, a musician, a politician, a garbage man, a teacher, a grocer, a gas-pumper, a trapese artist, a banker, a hamburger fryer, a tax collector, a sideshow carnival freak and a ten-dollar-rubber-stamp-maker on the jury as well.
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