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Pritzker Prize: French duo wins top architecture honour
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Pritzker Prize: French duo wins top architecture honour
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal receive prestigious award for their radical work and sustainable approach towards architecture.
16 Mar 2021
Undeterred even by the most urban of settings, French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize – architecture’s highest honour – for their designs transforming urban housing into uplifting and sustainable spaces, particularly in the context of public housing. ... Tom Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prestigious award, announced the duo’s win on Tuesday.
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“Through their design of private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions, public spaces, and urban developments, Lacaton and Vassal re-examine sustainability in their reverence for pre-existing structures, conceiving projects by first taking inventory of what already exists,” the organisers said in a statement. ... “By prioritizing the enrichment of human life … they are able to benefit the individual socially, ecologically and economically, aiding the evolution of a city.”
In her own remarks, Lacaton, 65, noted that “good architecture is open – open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do. It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it”.
Vassal, 67, said: “Our work is about solving constraints and problems, and finding spaces that can create uses, emotions and feelings. ... “At the end of this process and all of this effort, there must be lightness and simplicity, when all that has been before was so complex.”
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The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established in 1979 by the late entrepreneur Jay A Pritzker and his wife, Cindy. Winners receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.
Site for Contemporary Creation, Phase 2, Palais de Tokyo [Courtesy of Philippe Ruault]
SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
Pritzker Prize: French duo wins top architecture honour
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal receive prestigious award for their radical work and sustainable approach towards architecture.
16 Mar 2021
Undeterred even by the most urban of settings, French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal have been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize – architecture’s highest honour – for their designs transforming urban housing into uplifting and sustainable spaces, particularly in the context of public housing. ... Tom Pritzker, chairman of The Hyatt Foundation, which sponsors the prestigious award, announced the duo’s win on Tuesday.
{snip}
“Through their design of private and social housing, cultural and academic institutions, public spaces, and urban developments, Lacaton and Vassal re-examine sustainability in their reverence for pre-existing structures, conceiving projects by first taking inventory of what already exists,” the organisers said in a statement. ... “By prioritizing the enrichment of human life … they are able to benefit the individual socially, ecologically and economically, aiding the evolution of a city.”
In her own remarks, Lacaton, 65, noted that “good architecture is open – open to life, open to enhance the freedom of anyone, where anyone can do what they need to do. It should not be demonstrative or imposing, but it must be something familiar, useful and beautiful, with the ability to quietly support the life that will take place within it”.
Vassal, 67, said: “Our work is about solving constraints and problems, and finding spaces that can create uses, emotions and feelings. ... “At the end of this process and all of this effort, there must be lightness and simplicity, when all that has been before was so complex.”
{snip}
The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established in 1979 by the late entrepreneur Jay A Pritzker and his wife, Cindy. Winners receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion.
Site for Contemporary Creation, Phase 2, Palais de Tokyo [Courtesy of Philippe Ruault]
SOURCE : AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES
