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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN NETWORK presents , Prizes and the Changing Face of a lecture by Martha Thorne Executive Director the Pritzker Architecture Prize, , Associate Dean for External Affairs IE School of Architecture & Design, Madrid, Spain

DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 PLACE: Arkansas Arts Center lecture hall TIME: 6:00 p.m., Preceded by a reception at 5:30 p.m.

Martha Thorne served as an Associate Curator PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE RECIPIENTS of the Department of Architecture at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1996 to 2005, the YEAR RECIPIENT(S) NATION year she left to assume the directorship of the 1979 1980 Louis Barragan Mexico Pritzker Architecure Prize, headquartered in 1981 James Stirling Great Britain Madrid, Spain. Established in 1979 by Jay 1982 United States and Cindy Pritzker and underwritten by the 1983 I. M. Pei United States 1984 United States Hyatt Foundation, the award was conceived 1985 as a meaningful prize that would stimulate 1986 Gottfried Boehm public awareness and inspire greater creativ- 1987 1988 ity within the profession of architecture. Re- and Soares United States; cipients of the annual award, often called the 1989 United States 1990 “Nobel of architecture”, are selected by an 1991 United States international jury committed to the art of ar- 1992 Alvaro Siza chitecture and its social responsibility. Each 1993 Japan 1994 year’s winner receives a $100,000 grant and 1995 Japan a bronze medallion. 1996 Spain 1997 1998 Italy Lord Peter Palumbo of , a developer 1999 Norman Foster Great Britain and art collector, is the current jury chair. 2000 Netherlands of Japan, selected (by a jury of seven 2001 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron which included Thorne) as the 2013 Pritz- 2002 ker laureate, was presented his award by Tom 2003 Jørn Utzon Denmark Pritzker, Jay Pritzker’s son. 2004 Great Britain 2005 United States 2006 Brazil Supporters of the Architecture and Design 2007 Great Britain Network include the Central Arkansas Chap- 2008 France 2009 Switzerland ter of the American Institute of , 2010 and , UA Fay Jones School of Architecture and the partners in the firm Sanaa Japan Arkansas Arts Center. ADN lectures are free 2011 Portugal 2012 China and open to the public. For additional infor- 2013 Toyo Ito Japan mation, contact [email protected]