Tag: Pritzker Prize

  • Grafton Architects: ‘A building is a collection of experiences. It’s not an abstract thing’

    Designing a new building for the LSE, Grafton’s founders, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, were inspired by Georgian architect John Soane’s mastery of light in the building opposite. They talk about this and a shared social and spatial sensibility, revealed…

  • Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People

    This comprehensive exhibition guides us through the creative world of this Pritzker Prize-winning architect, whose vision and inventiveness have empowered the people who use his buildings

  • Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel

    Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy

  • Ando’s progress

    A recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1995 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal 2002, Tadao Ando’s works have been lauded by the architectural world. Yet he himself is entirely self-taught, with no architectural…