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What Can You Say about the Pritzker? Author(s): Michael Sorkin Source: Perspecta, Vol. 37, Famous (2005), pp. 106-111 Published by: The MIT Press on behalf of Perspecta. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40482245 Accessed: 05-04-2016 18:07 UTC

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Michael Sorkin

THE WINNERS1'2'3'4 1992 - Alvaro Siza - 59 Portugal 1993 - - 65 Japan 1979 - -73 USA 1994 - 1980 - Luis Barragan - 78 Mexico - 50 1981 - James Stirling - 55 UK 1995 - - 53 Japan 1982 - - 60 USA 1996 - - 58 Spain 1983 - IM Pei - 66 USA 1997 - - 72 1984 - - 49 USA 1998 - -60 1985 - - 51 1999 -Sir Norman Foster -63 UK 1986 -Gottfried Boehm - 66 2000 - -56 Netherlands 1987- Kenzo Tange - 74 Japan 2001 - Jacques Herzog - 51 1988 - - 79 USA Pierre de Meuron- 51 Switzerland -81 Brazil 2002 - - 66 Australia 1989 - - 60 USA 2003 - Jern Utzon - 84 1990 - - 59 Italy 2004 - - 53 UK 1991 - -66 USA 2005 - Thorn Mayne - 61 USA

Pritzker Prize Recipients by Age Group Pritzker Prize Recipients by Region of Origin

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Pritzker Prize Recipients by Country of Origin 1979-2005

1 A cursory glance at the list of winners reveals the self-evident: As in so many areas of life, it helps to be a white guy. Which made 2004 a banner year: a woman of Arab origin became the 28 laureate. Of the previous 27 winners, all were men; of those, 21 were white, four were Asian, and two were Latino. The 29th winner was yet another white male.

2 Age distribution is well spread, with substantial numbers of winners in their 50s, 60s and 70s. There also seems to be a cyclical quality to this recognition, with no special priority given to working down from older to younger practitioners.

3 Only one collaborative practice - Herzog & de Meuron - was recognized as such.

4 The American hegemony in the early years of the prize has been decisively replaced with European domination. Before Thorn Mayne won in 2005, the last American recipient was Robert Venturi in 1 991 . Indeed, the prize has been strikingly negligent in recognizing the younger cohort of American , though younger Europeans have done very well.

This content downloaded from 200.19.92.200 on Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:07:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE JURORS56 (1996-2005)

Gianni Agnelli, Industrialist J. Carter Brown, Curator Charles Correa, Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi, Architect Rolf Fehlbaum, Industrialist Frank Gehry, Architect Ada Louise Huxtable, Critic Carlos Jimenez, Architect Toshio Nakamura, Editor Victoria Newhouse, Historian Lord Palumbo, Patron Lord Rothschild, Banker Jorge Silvetti, Architect Karen Stein, Editor

Pritzker Prize Jurors by Number of Years Served 1 996-2005

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5 The constellation of jurors is generally of similar configurations from year to year, with * practitioners in the minority. Architects are balanced by approximately equal numbers of tastemakers - critics, editors, and curators - and juries always contain at least one avatar of big money in the form of a recognized patron. Women stand a better chance of serving on the jury, although only in the tastemaker category, and there is a significant bulge of Latin males that defies ready explanation.

6 The jury tends to be not only structurally comparable from year to year, but to be comprised of the same members, suggesting a single standard of taste. In the 10-year period from 1996 to 2005, for example, Ada Louise Huxtable was present for 10 consecutive years, Lord Rothschild and Jorge Silvetti for nine, and Gianni Agnelli for eight. Of the total of 14 jurors to serve during this period, seven were Americans.

This content downloaded from 200.19.92.200 on Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:07:08 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms THE INFLUENCES Pritzker Prize Acceptance Speech Citations 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Architects of Note (excludes recipient's partners, employers, and employees)

Le Corbusier 5 Luis Barragan 2 5 Filippo Brunelleschi 2 Mies van der Rohe 4 2 3 Frank Gehry 2 Jörn Utzon 3 Edwin Lutyens 2 1 1 Robert Adam 1 Andrea Palladio 1 Leon Battista Alberti 1 Sir Joseph Paxton 1 Christopher Alexander 1 I.M. Pei 1 1 Renzo Piano 1 Edward Larrabee Barnes 1 Jean Prouvé 1 Bernard Bijouet 1 H.H. Richardson 1 Francesco Borromini 1 1 Armando Brasini 1 Aldo Rossi 1 Burnham & Root 1 Paul Rudolph 1 Pierre Chareau 1 Eero Saarinen 1 Serge Chermayeff 1 Rudolph Schindler 1 José Coderch 1 Harry Seidler 1 Peter Eisenman 1 Peter Smithson 1 Buckminster Fuller 1 Sir John Soane 1 Frank Furness 1 Louis Sullivan 1 Greene & Greene 1 Fernando Tavora 1 Walter Gropius 1 Alexander "Greek" Thompson 1 Harwell Hamilton Harris 1 John Vanbrugh 1 Nicholas Hawksmoor 1 Robert Venturi 1 John Hejduk 1 Marcus Vitruvius 1 Philip Johnson 1 Philip Webb 1 Jean Labatut 1 Christopher Wren 1 Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1

Visual Artists

Otl Aicher 1 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy 1 Joseph Beuys 1 Claes Oldenberg 1 Jesus Reyes Ferreira 1 Robert Rauschenberg 1 Jasper Johns 1 RemyZaugg 1 Ed Kienholz 1

Schools of Architecture

Harvard Graduate School of Design 3 University of Hawaii 1 Liverpool University 1 University of Manchester 1 MIT 1 University of Pennsylvania 1 University of Porto School of Architecture 1 University of Technology, 1 Princeton University 1 University of 1 Royal Academy of Fine Arts 1 Washington University 1 Swiss Federal Institute of Architecture 1 Yale School of Architecture 1 Technical School of Architecture, Madrid 1

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Ryoanji Garden, Kyoto 2 Parthenon 1 Alhambra 1 Penn Station 1 Baths of Caracalla 1 Piazza Navona 1 Chartres 1 Taj Mahal 1 Fatehpur, Sikri 1 Taliesin 1 Friday Mosque, Isfahan 1 Teotihuacan 1 Grand Central Station 1 Versailles 1 Maison de Verre 1

Big Figures and Critics

Emilio Ambasz 1 Antonio Manetti 1 Ferdinand Bac 1 Robert Maxwell 1 Charles Baudelaire 1 John Stuart Mill 1 Ludwig van Beethoven 1 Christian Norberg-Schultz 1 ; John Calvin 1 Carlos Pellicer 1 | Donald Drew Egbert 1 George Santayana 1 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1 Vincent Scully 1 Galileo Galilei 1 Bernard Shaw 1 Johannes Goethe 1 Arturo Toscanini 1 Sylvia Lavin 1

7 Of 56 architects cited as influential in acceptance addresses, only ten received multiple citations, led by Corb and Wright with five each, Mies with four, Kahn and Utzon with three, and Barragan, Brunelleschi, Leonardo, Gehry, and Lutyens with two apiece.

8 The list of citations is somewhat distorted by Robert Venturi, whose speech included 29, and Philip Johnson, who referenced 12.

9 Of these architects only two were not white or not male, I.M. Pei and Gae Aulenti.

10 All visual artists cited are contemporary, and all were mentioned in only three speeches.

11 Of the 15 schools of architecture mentioned, seven were American. Each school received a single citation with the exception of the GSD, which had three.

12 Of buildings cited as influential, none was by a living architect. Indeed, the only modern citations were Taliesin (although the location was not specified) and the Maison de Verre.

13 The relative absence of modern contemporary theorists is striking.

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