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    To 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. The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect/s for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. It is granted annually and is often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honor.” The award consists of $100,000 (US) and a bronze medallion. The award is conferred on the laureate/s at a ceremony held at an architecturally significant site throughout the world.

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    To 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. The international prize, which is awarded each year to a living architect/s for significant achievement, was established by the Pritzker family of Chicago through their Hyatt Foundation in 1979. It is granted annually and is often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honor.” The award consists of $100,000 (US) and a bronze medallion. The award is conferred on the laureate/s at a ceremony held at an architecturally significant site throughout the world.

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    Philip Johnson

    1979 Laureate
    Biography
    Philip Johnson (1906-2005) was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906, and in the years since
    has become one of architecture's most potent forces. Before designing his first building
    at the age of 36, Johnson had been client, critic, author, historian, museum director, but
    not an architect.
    In 1949, after a number of years as the Museum of Modern Art's first director of the
    Architecture Department, Johnson designed a residence for himself in New Canaan,
    Connecticut for his master degree thesis, the now famous Glass House.
    He literally coined the term "International School of Architecture" for an exhibition at
    MOMA.
    Johnson organized Mies van der Rohe's first visit to this country as well as Le
    Corbusier's. He even commissioned Mies to design his New York apartment. Later, he
    would collaborate with Mies on what has been described as this continent's finest highrise building, the Seagram Building in New York.
    By the fifties, Johnson was revising his earlier views, culminating with a building that
    proved to be one of the most controversial of his careerthe AT&T headquarters in New
    York with its so-called "Chippendale" top.
    Joining forces with partner John Burgee from 1967 through 1987, their twenty year
    output has been nothing short of phenomenal.
    The list of projects fills a volume, but suffice it to say, ranges from numerous high-rise
    projects such as International Place in Boston; Tycon Towers in Vienna, Virginia;
    Momentum Place in Dallas; 53rd at Third in New York; NCNB Center in Houston; PPG
    in Pittsburgh; 101 California in San Francisco; United Bank Center Tower in Denver; to
    the far flung National Center for Performing Arts in Bombay, India; Century Center in
    South Bend, Indiana; a Water Garden in Fort Worth, Texas; a Civic Center in Peoria,
    Illinois; the Crystal Cathedral in California; and a Dade County Cultural Center in Miami.
    There are many, many more.
    Since 1989, Johnson, semi-retired, has devoted his time mainly to projects of his own,
    but still is a consultant to John Burgee Architects. His most recent design is for a new
    School of Fine Arts for Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

    The Hyatt Foundation


    For more information, please contact:
    Martha Thorne, Executive Director
    The Pritzker Architecture Prize
    71 South Wacker Drive
    Suite 4700
    Chicago, Illinois 60606
    email: marthathorne@pritzkerprize.com

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