PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE
Establish: 1979.
Awarded for: A
career of achievement in the art of architecture
Sponsor: Hyatt
Foundation.
Prize: $100,000,
a citation and a bronze medallion.
The Japanese
architecture, Mr. Shigeru Ban (56)
won the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014 for his unique approach in using
materials viz. paper tubes, bamboo and shipping containers. Mr. Ban would be
the seventh Japanese architect to receive the prize when it is given away on June 13, 2014 in Amsterdam.
Pritzker Architecture Academy Award for 2009 was given to Swiss
architect Peter Zumthor. It is also
called the Nobel Prize of Architecture.
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