The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honor a living architect by the Hyatt Foundation, run by the Pritzker family. It is considered the world's premier architecture prize. The honor was created in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker . Largely modeled after the Nobel Prize, the Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel of architecture".

A complete list of winners:

• 1979 Philip Johnson of the United States
• 1980 Luis Barragán of Mexico
• 1981 James Stirling of the United Kingdom
• 1982 Kevin Roche of the United States
• 1983 Ieoh Ming Pei of the United States
• 1984 Richard Meier of the United States
• 1985 Hans Hollein of Austria
• 1986 Gottfried Boehm of Germany
• 1987 Kenzo Tange of Japan
• 1988 Gordon Bunshaft of the United States and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil
• 1989 Frank Gehry of the United States
• 1990 Aldo Rossi of Italy
• 1991 Robert Venturi of the United States
• 1992 Alvaro Siza of Portugal
• 1993 Fumihiko Maki of Japan
• 1994 Christian de Portzamparc of France
• 1995 Tadao Ando of Japan
• 1996 Rafael Moneo of Spain
• 1997 Sverre Fehn of Norway
• 1998 Renzo Piano of Italy
• 1999 Sir Norman Foster of the United Kingdom
• 2000 Rem Koolhaas of The Netherlands
• 2001 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Switzerland
• 2002 Glenn Murcutt of Australia
• 2003 Jørn Utzon of Denmark
• 2004 Zaha Hadid of Iraq and the United Kingdom
• 2005 Thom Mayne of the United States

External links

• Pritzker Prize Official Site