Tadao Anda of Osaka, Japan, is a self-made architect eliciting poetic and surreal architecture with concrete, light, and glass that synthesises modern ideologies with Japanese tradition while—in essence—yearning to affiliate…
Pritzker Prize – Laureate Arata Isozaki passed away on Thursday, December 29, At the age of 91. Laureate Arata Isozaki was born on July 23 in Oita on the island…
“To build means to intervene in the environment, in the landscape, in which we live in, as much as to construct a building.”Rafael Moneo, On The Arbitrariness of Architecture Rafael…
“The sun does not realize how wonderful it is until after a room is made” – Louis Kahn. Creating spaces that evoke a sense of harmony with their surroundings and…
Tadao Ando is often regarded as the architect who best embodies the minimalist approach, which emphasises clean lines and fundamental features. He is the only architect to have won the…
The very first work as an established architect by Tadao Ando, the 1995 Pritzker Prize, is the former Tomishima House in Osaka, today called Atelier in Oyodo II, headquarter of his architectural studio. The project…
Nestled in the historic city of Ningbo, China, the Ningbo museum is a testament to the culture of the city. Designed by architect Wang Shu, leading the Amateur Architect Studio,…
Born in Vienna, Austria, circa 1935, Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein was a significant figure of postmodern architecture, to be precise, was an architect, designer, and professor. He graduated from…
Alejandro Aravena was born in 1967 in Santiago, Chile. After graduating as an architect from Universidad Católica de Chile, he started his firm, Alejandro Aravena Architects, in 1994. He has…
Note: The listing of religions or associated elements in the respective sentences as nouns, sacred building types or adjectives was done in alphabetical order to avoid objectivity and hierarchisation. Adjaye…
Renzo Piano is a Pritzker Prize-winning Italian Architect known for buildings such as the ground-breaking Pompidou Centre in Paris, the London Bridge Tower (also known as “The Shard”), and the…
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is the highest honor in the field of Architecture, it offers notability and prestige to the Pritzker prize winners and their work which render the qualities…
