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The 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate will be announced on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
United States Architecture News - Feb 19, 2024 - 08:50 2163 views
The Hyatt Foundation has announced that the official announcement of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate, the winner of the 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize will be shared on Tuesday, March 5th, 2024 (9am EST).
The winner will be the 53rd Laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2024.
The goal of this international prize is "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."
Established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979, the Pritzker Architecture Prize is granted annually and is often referred to as "architecture’s Nobel" and “the profession’s highest honor.”
The laureate is awarded a $100,000 (US) cash prize and a bronze medallion. The award is conferred on the laureate/s at a ceremony held at an architecturally significant site throughout the world.
British architect David Chipperfield was the recipient of the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
The past laureates are Diébédo Francis Kéré (2022), Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal (2021), Irish duo Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Arata Isozaki (2019), Balkrishna Doshi (2018), RCR Arquitectes (2017), Alejandro Aravena (2016), Frei Otto (2015), Shigeru Ban (2014), Toyo Ito (2013), Wang Shu (2012), Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa (2010), Zaha Hadid (2004), Rem Koolhaas (2000), Norman Foster (1999).
The 2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize jury is composed of Manuela Lucá-Dazio, Executive Director, Alejandro Aravena (Jury Chair), 2016 Pritzker Prize Laureate, Barry Bergdoll, curator, author, and Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, Deborah Berke, architect and Dean of Yale School of Architecture, Stephen Breyer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, architectural critic, curator, and Brazilian Ambassador to India, Delhi, Kazuyo Sejima, architect, educator, and 2010 Pritzker Prize Laureate, and Wang Shu, architect, educator, and 2012 Pritzker Prize Laureate.
Top image courtesy of Pritzker Architecture Prize.