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Pritzker Prize 2019
March 8 , 2019
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- Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been named 2019 laureate of the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award.
- He is the 46th recipient of the Pritzker Prize, and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honour.
- Pritzker Prize is an annual award to honour a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision, and commitment.
- The award constituted by Pritzker family of Chicago through Hyatt Foundation in 1979.
- It is often referred to as “architecture’s Nobel” and “the profession’s highest honour.”
- Earlier awardees of the coveted prize include India’s Balkrishna Doshi, Jorn Utzon who designed the Sydney Opera House.
