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Pritzker Prize-winning Architects

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Of all the awards related to architecture, the most prestigious is the Pritzker Prize. Established in 1979 by Jay and Cindy Pritzker, the cash ($100,000) prize is funded by the Pritzkers’ Hyatt Hotel Foundation and given annually to honor a body of work by a living architect. Candidates are selected through a process modeled after the Nobel Prize, with secret voting by an international panel of judges. The awards ceremony is held at architecturally significant sites around the world. Following is the list of the Pritzker Prize winners:

1979: Philip Johnson, United States	1990: Aldo Rossi, Italy	2001: Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron, Switzerland
1980: Luis Barragan, Mexico	1991: Robert Venturi, United States	2002: Glenn Murcutt, Australia
1981: James Stirling, Great Britain	1992: Alvaro Siza, Portugal	2003: Jern Utzon, Denmark
1982: Kevin Roche, United States	1993: Fumihiko Maki, Japan	2004: Zaha Hadid, Iraq / Great Britain
1983: I.M. Pei, United States	1994: Christian de Portzamparc, France	2005: Thom Mayne, United States
1984: Richard Meier, United States	1995: Tadao Ando, Japan	2006: Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazil
1985: Hans Hollein, Austria	1996: Rafael Moneo, Spain	2007: Richard Rogers, United Kingdom
1986: Gottfried Boehm, Germany	1997: Sverre Fehn, Norway	2008: Jean Nouvel, France
1987: Kenzo Tange, Japan	1998: Renzo Piano, Italy	2009: Peter Zumthor, Switzerland
1988: Gordon Bunshaft, United States, and Oscar Neimeyer, Brazil	1999: Norman Foster, Great Britain	2010: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Japan
1989: Frank Gehry, United States	2000: Rem Koolhaas, Netherlands

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