GLASS HOUSE

The Glass House is a renowned architectural landmark

designed by Philip Johnson, located in New Canaan,
Connecticut. It is considered a masterpiece of the International
Style. Its innovative use of glass and seamless integration into
the landscape has made it one of the most iconic buildings in
American residential architecture. The house, measuring 55 feet
PHILIP JOHNSON by 33 feet and covering 1,815 square feet, sits on a promontory
overlooking a pond and the woods beyond, invisible from the
road.
1979 LAUREATE

CASA ESTUDIO LUIS

BARRAGAN
Built in 1948, this Mexican
modern house, designed by Luis
Barragán, is recognized for its
international significance. The
house-studio, inhabited by the
architect himself until 1988,
incorporates principles of the
vernacular architecture of the
region in its design, including the
use of striking colors. Barragán has
been one of the most influential
Mexican architects, and his house
is one of the most visited places in
LUIS BARRAGÁN Mexico City.

1980 LAUREATE
 SEELEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY
The Seeley Library is Grade II* listed and lies within the West
Cambridge conservation area. The Library was commissioned
through an invited architectural competition during March
1963 and for which the design by James Stirling (and his then
partner James Gowan) was considered to respond perfectly to
the brief. Construction of the Seeley Library commenced in
October 1964 and the building was occupied towards the end
JAMES STIRLING of 1968.

1981 LAUREATE

THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HEADQUARTERS

a remarkable architectural feat designed by the renowned
architect Kevin Roche, was completed in 1969. This iconic
building is distinguished by its four emblematic corner towers,
representing a symbolic gateway to New Haven. The
innovative design highlights the philanthropic organization’s
KEVIN ROCHE commitment to the community and showcases Roche’s ability
to blend form and function seamlessly. With its impressive
vertical statement, the headquarters serves as a beacon of the
organization’s values and an integral part of the city’s visual
identity.
1982 LAUREATE
 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ARTS
Opened in 1978, the I. M. Pei-designed East Building houses the
National Gallery of Art’s collection of modern and contemporary
art. Pei’s masterpiece has provided an eloquent setting for the
display of great works of modern art from the permanent
collection, some 300 temporary exhibitions, a library and rare
book collection, administrative offices, and the Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, which fosters international
I.M. PEI understanding of art and culture.

1983 LAUREATE

THE HIGH MUSEUM OF ART

Is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United
States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, the High is 312,000 square
feet (28,985 m2) and a division of the Woodruff Arts Center. The
High organizes and presents exhibitions of international and
national significance alongside its comprehensive collection of
more than 18,000 works of art, and is especially known for its
19th- and 20th-century American decorative arts, folk and self-
RICHARD MEIER taught art, modern and contemporary art, and photography.

1984 LAUREATE
 MUSEUM ABTEIBERG
The Museum Abteiberg is a municipal museum for
contemporary art in the German city Monchengladbach. The
museum became famous for its avant-garde exhibitions curated
by director Johannes Cladders and its museum architecture,
HANS HOLLEIN designed by Austrian architect Hans Hollein, as a highpoint of
postmodern design.

1985 LAUREATE

CHRISTI AUFERSTEHUNG
a Catholic church in the district of
Lindenthal in Cologne. It was built
between 1968-1970 by architect
Gottfried Bohm and later
consecrated in 1971. The plan for
the new church designed by Bohm
has an irregular polygonal shape.
While the laterally projecting
parish is made completely of
reddish brick, which alternates in
the actual church building from
brick and concrete, which is a
contrast continued through the
interior.

GOTTFRIED BÖHM

1986 LAUREATE
 ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL
The St. Mary’s Cathedral, located in Tokyo, Japan, was
designed by the renowned architect Kenzo Tange and built in
1964. This building was constructed to replace the old wooden
cathedral, which was burnt down during wartime. The new
KENZO TANGE cathedral departed from the traditional gothic style, reflecting
Tange’s unique approach to architecture that combined
Modernist and Metabolist styles.
1987 LAUREATE

OSCAR NIEMEYER THE CATHEDRAL OF BRASILA

A marvel of modernist architecture, the Cathedral of Brasilia,
which stands at the center of the Monumental Axis, is a defining
1988 LAUREATE symbol of the nation's capital city.
 BEINECKE RARE BOOK
AND MANUSCRIPT
LIBRARY
is one of the world’s foremost
collections of rare manuscripts.
Opened in 1963, the library is
renowned for its translucent
marble façade and the world-
renowned glass book tower
sheltered within – a dramatic
arrangement resulting from the
particular requirements of a
repository for literary artifacts.

GORDON BUNSHAFT

1988 LAUREATE
 GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILDAO
The museum complex, designed by Frank O. Gehry, consists of
interconnected buildings whose extraordinary free-form
titanium-sheathed mass suggests a gigantic work of abstract
FRANK GEHRY sculpture. The interior space, organized around a large atrium,
is mainly devoted to modern and contemporary art, particularly
massive sculptures.

1989 LAUREATE

BONNEFANTEN MUSEUM
ALDO ROSSI The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and
archaeological museum of the Dutch province of Limburg. The
name Bonnefanten Museum is derived from the French 'bons
enfants' ('good children'), the popular name of a former convent
that housed the museum from 1951 until 1978.
1990 LAUREATE
 NATIONAL GALLERY, SAINSBURY WING
One of the most recognized expansions, the Sainsbury Wing by
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Edward Middleton
Barry from 1989-1991, has been adding 11.148m2 on the west
side to the existing surface, going to be 46,396 m2 gallery built.
ROBERT VENTURI This expansion complements the work of Wilkins
communicates with nineteenth century gallery on the first floor.
1991 LAUREATE

BONJOUR TRISTESSE
Bonjour Tristesse is a social housing project designed by
Portuguese Architect Álvaro Siza Vieira. Located in Berlin, the
project was Siza’s first built work outside of his native country.
ALVARO SIZA Siza’s design offers a meaningful precedent in urban
densification, demonstrating a delicate balance between
1992 LAUREATE contextual awareness, creative freedom, and progressive vision.
 TOKYO METROPOLITAN GYMNASIUM
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium was originally built in 1954
for the World Wrestling Championship, it was also used as the
venue for gymnastics events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. It
FUMIHIKO MAKI was was rebuilt to a futuristic design created by Pritzker Prize
winner Fumihiko Maki and completed in 1991.
1993 LAUREATE

PHILHARMONIE LUXEMBOURG
The Philharmonie Luxembourg, also known officially as the
CHRISTIAN DE Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte Concert Hall, is a concert
hall located in the European district in the Luxembourg City
PORTZAMPARC quarter of Kirchberg. Opened in 2005, it now plays host to 400
performances each year.
1994 LAUREATE
 CHURCH OF THE LIGHT
Church of the Light was completed in 1989 as an annex to an
existing wooden church and ministers’ house. This church is
seen as a place of retreat where the outside world is forgotten
and the natural world is emphasized in a rather abstract manner
vis-à-vis Ando’s control of the light. This church beckons the
fundamental simplicity of Christianity with its low-tech, yet
TADAO ANDO powerful design.

1995 LAUREATE

PRADO MUSUEM
Prado Museum, Spanish Museo del Prado, art museum in Madrid,
housing the world's richest and most comprehensive collection of
RAFAEL MONEO Spanish painting, as well as masterpieces of other schools of
European painting, especially Italian and Flemish art
1996 LAUREATE
 NORWEGIAN GLACIER MUSEUM
Norwegian Glacier Museum is a museum in Fjaerland, Sogn og
Fjordane, Norway. Its purpose is to "collect, create and
disseminate knowledge about glaciers and climate". The
Museum's Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn gave it sharp,
angular shapes to suggest the jagged forms of the surrounding
SVERRE FEHN mountains and glaciers in Fjaerland. He selected the rugged
gray concrete to harmonize with the Fjaerland mountains and
glaciers.
1997 LAUREATE

CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU

The Center George Pompidou is classified as structural
expressionism. Structural expressionism, also known as high-tech
or late modernism, is mostly associated with structures designed
by Richard Rogers, Renzo Piano, or Norman Foster. This style
RENZO PIANO first emerged in the 1970’s and has remained popular to the
present day.

1998 LAUREATE
 MILLENNIUM BRIDGE
The Millennium Bridge springs from a creative
collaboration between architecture, art and
engineering. Developed with sculptor Anthony Caro
and engineers Arup, the commission resulted from
an international competition. London's only
pedestrian bridge and the first new crossing on this
part of the Thames in more than a century, it links
NORMAN FOSTER the City and St Paul's Cathedral to the north with
the Globe Theatre and Tate Modern on Bankside.
1999 LAUREATE

CASA DA MUSICA
The Casa da Musica, the new home of the National Orchestra of
Porto, stands on a new public square in the historic Rotunda da
Boavista. It has a distinctive faceted form, made of white
concrete, which remains solid and believable in an age of too
many icons. Inside, the elevated 1,300-seat (shoe box-shaped)
REM KOOLHAS Grand Auditorium has corrugated glass facades at either end that
open the hall to the city and offer Porto itself as a dramatic
2000 LAUREATE backdrop for performances.
 TATE MODERN
is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United
Kingdom's national collection of international modern and
JACQUES HERZOG & PIERRE
contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together
DE MEURON with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives.[2] It is
located in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside
area of the London Borough of Southwark.
2001 LAUREATE

BEROWRA WATERS INN

is a restaurant, owned and run by Head Chef Brian Geraghty,
located at Berowra Waters along Berowra Creek (a tributary of
the Hawkesbury River), near Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park,
50 minutes from downtown Sydney, Australia. It is unique due to
its being accessed only by private ferry or airplane, as well as
GLENN MURCUTT being one of Pritzker Prize winning Australian architect Glenn
Murcutt's only venues regularly open to the public.
2002 LAUREATE
 SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
The Sydney Opera House is a masterpiece of late modern
architecture by Jørn Utzon that pushed architecture and
engineering to new limits, and which has had an enduring
influence on late 20th century architecture and beyond. The
JØRN UTZON design represents an extraordinary interpretation and response
to the setting in Sydney Harbour.

2003 LAUREATE

CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER

The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a contemporary art
ZAHA HADID museum in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first contemporary art
institutions in the United States. The CAC is a non-collecting
museum that focuses on new developments in painting, sculpture,
2004 LAUREATE photography, architecture, performance art and new media.
 SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL BUILDING
The San Francisco Federal Building is a building designed by
the architectural firm Morphosis. It is located at 90 7th Street
on the corner of Mission and 7th Streets in South of Market,
THOM MAYNE San Francisco. Thom Mayne of Morphosis designed the
building using a concept of "resistance," juxtaposing gray
concrete walls with custom, zig-zagged 9Wood wood ceilings.
2005 LAUREATE

CHAPEL OF SAINT PETER

The Chapel of Saint Peter (or Capela São Pedro Apóstolo) is a
concrete chapel flanked in glass and stone located near Boa Vista
Palace—which was once the winter residence of the governor of
São Paulo. The interior spaces are focused around a single,
PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA concrete column that anchors the center. The two-story glass
façade and takes advantage of the views provided by the highest
city in Brazil.

2006 LAUREATE
 LLOYD’S BUILDING
The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution
Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India
House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the
City of London. The building is a leading example of radical
Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building,
RICHARD ROGERS such as ducts and elevators, are located on the exterior to
maximize space in the interior.

2007 LAUREATE

AGBAR TOWER
The tower is a ‘small
skyscraper’ and has a distinct
shape which evokes an
incredible fountain with a
constant, stable water
pressure. The building does
not sit at ground level but
rather emerges from a water-
filled crater. The building
features a glass dome at the
top, multi-colored walls and
4,500 different-sized
windows, to the LED
illuminated “breathing” glass
shell.
JEAN NOUVEL

2008 LAUREATE
 THERME VALS
7132 Thermal Baths is a hotel/spa complex in Vals, built over
the only thermal springs in the Graubünden canton in
Switzerland. The concept of the building is based on an
architectural interpretation of a stone quarry. [6]: 200 Very
PETER ZUMTHOR characteristic for the movement in the building is constant
change between the very small intimate spaces and the large
2009 LAUREATE meandering bath.

21ST CENTURY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART,

KANAZAWA
The Museum is located in the center of Kanazawa, near Kenroku-
en garden and the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art. The
building has a circular form, with a diameter of 112.5 metres. This
KAZUYO SEJIMA AND RYUE shape aims to keep the appearance of the overall building volume
low, to mitigate the scale of the project and allows access from
NISHIZAWA multiple points of entry.

2010 LAUREATE
 ESTADO MUNICIPAL DE BARGA
Estádio Municipal de Braga was designed by Portuguese
architect Eduardo Souto de Moura and has received many
plaudits for its daring design. It has been carved out of a rock at
the site of a former quarry and only consists of two lateral
stands, which are connected to each other by a number of steel
EDUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA strings.

2011 LAUREATE

NINGBO MUSEUM
The Ningbo Museum, was raised in an isolated plain, in the city
of the same name, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, east of
China. The main screen of Ningbo Museum refers to traditional
WANG SHU historical customs in Ningbo area. The Museum is the symbol of
the culture of Ningbo. It is a comprehensive museum with
geographic, showing the history and the arts.
2012 LAUREATE
 SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE
The Sendai Mediatheque is a mixed-program public facility
which combines library and art gallery functions located in the
city of Sendai, Japan. The Mediatheque's seven levels of
facilities offer a range of services including a conventional
book-lending library, an extensive collection of film and audio
recordings with stations for both viewing and editing, a theater,
to a cafe and bookstore, all housed in a nearly cubic glass
TOYO ITO enclosure.

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2013 LAUREATE

CENTRE POMPIDOU-METZ
The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and
contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France.[1] It
is a branch of Pompidou arts centre of Paris, and features semi-
permanent and temporary exhibitions from the large collection of
SHIGERU BAN the French National Museum of Modern Art, the largest European
collection of 20th and 21st century arts.
2014 LAUREATE
 OLYMPARK MUNCHEN
The olympic park was designed along the the theme of "Green
Olympic Games", a concept chosen by the organizing comittee
to promote an optimistic outlook, setting aside memories of the
FREI OTTO past, such as the Olympic Games of 1936 in Berlin.

2015 LAUREATE

SIAMESE TOWERS
The Siamese Towers were designed by the Chilean architect
ALEJANDRO ARAVENA
Alejandro Aravena Mori and his team for the Catholic University
of Chile. The commission consisted of a glass tower to house the
2016 LAUREATE Center for Technological Innovation at the University.

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 SANT ANTONI LIBRARY
RAFAEL ARANDA, CARME
The library, as a door and chill-out space for reading, retirement
PIGEM & RAMON VILALTA home, as a facade of public space, and the interior of the block
as playground for children with spatial and relationship
richness for a socially dynamic urban project.
2017 LAUREATE

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT

Doshi imagined the IIM campus as a distinctive traditional Indian
architecture that would effortlessly adapt to the local environment
and circumstances. The idea was to represent the ethos, green and
BALKRISHNA DOSHI alive, of the town. By connecting a network of corridors,
courtyards, and external spaces, the renowned architect modeled
it on the medieval Mogul city of Fatehpur Sikri.
2018 LAUREATE
 ART TOWER MITO
Art Tower Mito is an arts complex in Mito, Ibaraki, Japan. It
opened in 1990 as part of the centennial celebrations of the
municipality of Mito. There is a concert hall that seats 680, a
theater for up to 636, a contemporary art gallery, and a
landmark tower. Arata Isozaki was the architect, with
ARATA ISOZAKI acoustical design by Nagata Acoustics. The design is based on
the Boerdijk–Coxeter helix.

2019 LAUREATE

GRAFTON BUILDING
An ideal place for banquets, expos, dog shows, meetings or
company parties, the Grafton Building is the Rolls-Royce of event
YVONNE FARRELL AND planning. Its spacious 80′ x 225′ —18,000 square feet— can
SHELLEY MCNAMARA expand with a drop down screen in the center that makes an 80′ x
100′ room with 8,000 square feet of available space.
2020 LAUREATE
 TRANSFORMATION OF G, H, I BUILDINGS
The project consists of the transformation of 3 inhabited social
buildings, first phasis of a renovation program of the 'Cité du
Grand Parc' in Bordeaux. Built in the early 60's, this urban
housing counts more than 4000 dwellings. The 3 buildings G,
H and I, 10 to 15 floors high gather 530 dwellings and give a
capacity of transforming into beautiful dwellings with
ANNE LACATON AND JEAN- redefined qualities and comfort.
PHILIPPE VASSAL

2021 LAUREATE

LÉO SURGICAL CLINIC AND HEALTH CENTER

The Surgical Clinic and Health Centre in Léo was built to ease
pressure on the existing district hospital and serve the local
population's medical needs. The centre is equipped with surgical
facilities, an in-patient ward and a maternity unit. In a later phase
the project was complemented with the addition of the Léo
Doctors’ Housing on an adjacent site.
Diébédo Francis Kéré

2022 LAUREATE
 BBC SCOTLAND HEADQUARTERS
Located alongside Glasgow’s former docks, the BBC Scotland
headquarters sits on an exposed plot of land adjacent to the River
Clyde. Faced with this open landscape, the building needed to
assert its own sense of place and satisfy the brief that called for an
enclosed yet publicly accessible building which would allow
SIR DAVID ALAN visibility of the BBC at work while maintaining tight security.
CHIPPPERFIELD CH

2023 LAUREATE