Architecture should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. Zaha Hadid Born in 1950.
Nationality Iraqi-British. Graduated in 1977. Became partner at OMA in 1977. First architectural Project 1994. "Vitra Fire Station" Started her own practice in 1980. (age : 30) Won Pritzker Prize in 2004. (age : 54) First woman to ever win this award. Won Stirling Prize in 2011 & 2012. (age : 61-62). Won RIBA Gold Medal in 2015. (age : 65). Her architecture was unique and revolutionary, and she definitely was a great contributor in defining the future of architecture. Her built projects will forever be sparkling jewels in the history of architecture. Read more & for a List of her Projects Click Here.
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Award: AIA Gold Medal. Sponsor: American Institute of Architects. Goal: A work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. 2016 Recipients: Denise Scott Brow & Robert Venturi. Award: Alvar Aalto Medal. Sponsor: Finnish Association of Architects. Goal: Significant Contribution to creative architecture. 2015 Recipients: Fuensanta Nieto & Enrique Sobejano. |
It's been a couple of days and all I'm reading is "this architect won this award" and "that building won that award", So I guess it's Architecture Awards Season!
With Wikipedia help, Design Reader magazine have prepared a list of all the Global Architectural Awards their sponsor, goals and the latest winners recipients to date.
List of Global Architecture Awards
With Wikipedia help, Design Reader magazine have prepared a list of all the Global Architectural Awards their sponsor, goals and the latest winners recipients to date.
List of Global Architecture Awards
Award: Pritzker Prize. Sponsor: Pritzker Family & Hyatt Foundation. 2015 Recipients: Frei Otto. Goal: 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. Award: Royal Gold Medal. Sponsor: Royal Institute of British Architects. Recipients: Zaha Hadid (2016). Goal: an individual's or group's substantial contribution to international architecture. Award: Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture. Sponsor: Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Goal: A notable achievement in design or for distinguished contributions to the field of architecture. Recipients: Herman Hertzberger. Award: UIA Gold Medal. Sponsor: The International Union of Architects. Goal: an architect (or group of architects) having distinguished themselves through their work and professional practice by the quality of services rendered to man and society. 2015 Recipients: Ieoh Ming Pei. Award: Venice Biennale of Architecture Sponsor: Venice Biennale Goal: Lifetime Achievement 2015 Recipients: Golden Lion: Phyllis Lambert Award: Wolf Prize in Arts Sponsor: Wolf Foundation 2013 Recipients: Eduardo Souto de Moura (2013) Award: Louis I. Kahn Memorial Award. Sponsor: Philadelphia Center for Architecture. Goal: Excellence in architecture. 2015 Recipients: Norman Foster. Award: Moriyama RAIC International Prize Sponsor: Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 2015 Recipients: Li Xiaodong (2014) Award: Praemium Imperiale. Sponsor: Japan Art Association. Goal: Outstanding contributions to the development, promotion and progress of the arts. 2015 Recipients: Dominique Perrault. Award: World Architecture Festival Sponsor: EMAP Goal: Architectural excellence from across the globe 2013 Recipients: World Building of the Year: The Interlace, by Office for Metropolitan Architecture Future Project of the Year: Vancouver House, by Bjarke Ingels Group Landscape of the Year: Yanweizhou Park Small Project Prize: Lidingövallen AkzoNobel's Prize for Colour in Exterior Architecture: ONS INCEK Showroom & Sales Office Student Charrette Winner: School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal |