Two decades into the 21st century, it might surprise some to google Glenn Murcutt’s name and find no website in his own name. Yet, this quietness of presence truly makes…
Frei Otto was a German architect who paved the way for architects and engineers and revolutionized tensile structures. Growing up, he spent a lot of time building model planes. When…
{1 + 1 = Humans + Togetherness = Structuralism + Sustainability= Past + Future= HH} The equation explains: The Dutch architect Herman Hertzberger (HH) always followed a simple principle of …
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA, is an English architect best known for modernist structures such as London’s Waterloo International train station and Cornwall’s Eden Project. From 2004 to 2011, he…
Awarded with the National Architecture Prize “for what he has contributed to Spanish architecture and cities,” Alvaro Siza Vieira is one of the most important contemporary Portuguese architects, and the…
Originally from South Korea, architect Toyo Ito gained fame through a wide range of project work in Japan. Architect Ito was awarded the RIBA Royal Gold medal, one of the…
The Pritzker Prize is the most prestigious award in the field of architecture. Since 1979, every year the committee nominates one architect who has made significant contributions to the fields…
The winners of the architecture’s top prize Pritzker award in 2021, were Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, the founders of Lacaton & Vassal Architectes. The 49th and 50th winners of…
Eduardo Souto de Moura is a Portuguese Architect and the recipient of the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born on 25th July 1952 in Porto, he initially studied sculpture before switching…
The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect/s for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. (The…
In 2017, Pritzker prize winners Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem, and Ramon Vilalta were honoured with the prestigious award, essentially called the Nobel prize of architecture. The surprise is that it…
