the pritzker award

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The Pritzker Award

By Pritzker Family

Ahmed Omer

What is Pritzker Architecture Prize?The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually "to honor a living architect or architects sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation and is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes; it is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture.

History of PritzkerPritzker Prize founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family that way the prize named by Pritzker family, so far they give this award.

Who win the Prizker?Pritzker can be won by any architect without caring about nationality , ideology , creed, the recipients receive US $100,000 a citation certificate.

Name of winners:unfortunately there is not any Kurdish architect who has won this prize also there is no Arab and Turkish architects . Most of winner are American architects, architects got this Prize from:

Germany

Japan

France United KingdomBrazil

The winner involved 39 architects there are 37 men and 2 women , involved Zaha Hadid she won it in 2004 , her nationaltiy is Iraqi-British , she born in Bagdad, also she is the first woman that got this Prize . Also Kazuyo Sejima the second woman she won the prize in 2010.

Zaha Hadid

Kazuyo Sejima

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