 Zaha Hadid, Little Gods Portrait Series by Design Reader 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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 Frank Gehry Architect, LittleGods Portrait Series by Design Reader | Thank you for breaking the rules in Architecture!Born in 1929. Nationality Canadian. Graduated in 1954. First Project 1958. "the David Cabin" Started his practice in 1962. (age : 33) Won Pritzker Prize in 1989. (age : 60) |
 Alvar Aalto Architect - Little Gods Portrait Series by Design Reader | I do not write, I build. Alvar Aalto Born in 1898. Nationality Finnish Graduated in 1921. Started his practice in 1923. (age : 25) Founded Furniture Company ARTEK in 1935. Won RIBA Gold Medal in 1957. (age : 59) Won AIA Gold Medal in 1963. (age : 65) |
2016 Pritzker Prize awarded to Chilean Architect Alejandro Aravena.
 Alejandro Aravena Portrait Series by Design Reader | If we believe we're good designers, why not try to apply our skills to issues that matter? Alejandro Aravena. Born in 1967. Graduated in 1992. Started his practice in 1994. Won Pritcker Prize in 2016. (age : 48) |
Mr. Aravena's work is fueled by the community and the public's participation in the design process. His work focuses on trying to use architecture as a solution to some of the biggest problems facing the world today such as migration, climate change and the lack of resources.
  | 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: International Architecture Awards. Sponsor: Chicago Athenaeum, ECAADUC, Metropolitan Arts Press. Goal: the most outstanding architecture designed and built or unbuilt throughout the world. 2015 Recipients: Winners can be found here https://chi-athenaeum.org/the-2015-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 |
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