2010 Pritzker Winner: SANAA
The 2010 Pritzker Laureate has been named – with this year’s prestigious architecture award going to Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Japanese duo that form SANAA.
Now I’d like ask you readers a question that was posed to me earlier today: should they have ‘won’? Arch Daily conducted a reader poll, ad SANAA came in second to Steven Holl – so maybe this choice reflects the popularity of SANAA. But check out the list of previous laureates and then consider some names that are missing – Holl, Chipperfield, Toyo Ito… I’m not saying that I feel either way about it, I simply thought it was an interesting question when I heard it earlier today.
Drop a comment and let me know what you think.
Posted: March 28th, 2010
at 7:57pm by orangemenace
Categories: architecture,competitions,starchitects
Comments: 4 comments
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I reckon Holl, Ito and Chipperfield will all have their time none of them is too old yet by architect standards. After Zumthor last year its a bit of a step down but it’s a reminder that for all the really great architects who’ve won this there’s plenty of just decent architects who were quite hot at the time.
Zhu
29 Mar 10 at 6:01 pm
Here we go again: http://klaustoon.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/pritzker-prize-2010-nopassanaa/
Klaus
8 Apr 10 at 3:18 am
very funny article on the pair:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TsE8UiBLeyg/S74UHqQDgPI/AAAAAAAAFPE/jIO0ZFus3MQ/s1600/sexist+pritzker.jpg
chad
9 Apr 10 at 8:22 pm
I saw SANAA presentation at UIA Congress in Tokyo last September 2011. Superb.Weird. My 20 years experience in architecture seems useless to understand their works. I visit Dior by them at Omotesando. Sureal. I decided to relearn architecure….
yudha
6 Nov 11 at 2:21 am