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Laureates

Year	Laureate	Country
1979	Philip Johnson Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect. With his thick, round-framed glasses, Johnson was the most recognizable figure in American architecture for decades....  (1906–2005)
1980	Luis Barragán Luis Barragán Luis Barrag?n Morfin is considered the most important Mexico list of architects of the 20th century.Educated as an engineer, he graduated from the Escuela Libre de Ingenieros in 1923 and was self-trained as an architect....  (1902–1988)
1981	Sir James Stirling James Stirling (architect) Sir James Frazer Stirling Royal Institute of British Architects was a Pritzker Prize winning Scottish Architect and among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century....  (1924–1992)
1982	Kevin Roche Kevin Roche Kevin Roche is an award-winning twentieth century Irish-born American architect. He is famous for his creative work with glass.Born in Dublin, Roche graduated from University College Dublin in 1945....	/
1983	Ieoh Ming Pei I. M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei , commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese American American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture....	/
1984	Richard Meier Richard Meier Richard Meier is a United States architect known for his rationalist designs and the use of the color white....
1985	Hans Hollein Hans Hollein Hans Hollein, is an Austrian architect and designer.Hollein achieved a diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Vienna in 1956, then attended the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1959 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1960....
1986	Gottfried Böhm Gottfried Böhm Gottfried B?hm is a contemporary Germany architect.B?hm was born into a family of architects in Offenbach, Hessen. His father, Dominikus B?hm, is renowned for having built several churches throughout Germany....
1987	Kenzo Tange Kenzo Tange was a Japanese people architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with Modern Architecture, and designed major buildings on five continents....  (1913–2005)
1988	Gordon Bunshaft Gordon Bunshaft Gordon Bunshaft was a 20th century architect educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Born in Buffalo, New York where he attended Lafayette High School , an architecturally significant building, Bunshaft was a modern architecture whose early influences included Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier....  (1909–1990) Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Niemeyer Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho is a Brazilian architect who is considered one of the most important names in international modern architecture....
1989	Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, Order of Canada is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions....	/
1990	Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in three distinct areas: theory, drawing, and architecture....  (1931–1997)
1991	Robert Venturi Robert Venturi Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an award-winning American architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Robert Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, are regarded among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical w...
1992	Álvaro Siza Álvaro Siza Vieira ?lvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, Order of St. James of the Sword, Order of Infante D. Henrique, , who signs as ?lvaro Siza Vieira and is sometimes known as ?lvaro Siza, is a contemporary Portugal architect....
1993	Fumihiko Maki Fumihiko Maki Fumihiko Maki is a Japanese architect. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design....
1994	Christian de Portzamparc Christian de Portzamparc Christian de Portzamparc is a France architect and urbanist. He graduated from the ?cole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1970 and has since been noted for his bold designs and artistic touch; his projects reflect a sensibility to their environment and the town is a founding principal of his work....
1995	Tadao Ando Tadao Ando is a Japanese people architect whose approach to architecture was once categorised as critical regionalism. Ando has led a storied life, working as a truck driver and boxer prior to settling on the profession of architecture, despite never having taken formal training in the field....
1996	Rafael Moneo Rafael Moneo Jos? Rafael Moneo Vall?s is a Spain architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid from which he received his architectural degree in 1961....
1997	Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn Sverre Fehn was a Norway architect.Fehn was born in Kongsberg, Buskerud. He received his architectural education shortly after World War II in Oslo, and quickly became the leading Norwegian architect of his generation....
1998	Renzo Piano Renzo Piano Renzo Piano is a world renowned Italy architect and recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, AIA Gold Medal, Kyoto Prize and the Sonning Prize....
1999	Lord Norman Foster Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Order of Merit, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, Royal Designers for Industry, is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice....
2000	Rem Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas, , is a Dutch architect, architectural theory, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA....
2001	Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog , and Pierre de Meuron , closely paralleled one another, with both attending the ETH Z?rich in Z?rich....
2002	Glenn Murcutt Glenn Murcutt Glenn Murcutt . He is probably Australia's most famous architect. He was presented with the Order of Australia in 1996. Prestigious awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1992, the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1992, the Richard Neutra Award for Teaching in 1998, the 'Green Pin' Award from the Royal Danish...
2003	Jørn Utzon Jørn Utzon J?rn Oberg Utzon, Order of Australia was a Danish architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia....  (1918-2008)
2004	Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid , Order of British Empire is a notable Iraqis in the United Kingdom deconstructivism architect....
2005	Thom Mayne
2006	Paulo Mendes da Rocha Paulo Mendes da Rocha Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a Brazilian architect. He was recently honored with the 2006 Pritzker Prize, and in 2000 with the Mies van der Rohe Prize....
2007	Lord Richard Rogers Richard Rogers Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
2008	Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel Jean Nouvel is a French architect. Nouvel studied at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was a founding member of Mars 1976 and Syndicat de l'Architecture....

See also

• List of architecture prizes
  List of architecture prizes
  
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