Complete List

of
Pritzker Architecture
Prize Laureates
(1979-2004)
1979 Philip Johnson of the United States 
presented at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
1980 Luis Barragan of Mexico 
presented at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC 
1981 James Stirling of Great Britain 
presented at the National Building Museum,
Washington, D.C.
1982 Kevin Roche of the United States 
presented at The Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1983 Ieoh Ming Pei of the United States 
presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, New York
1984 Richard Meier of the United States 
presented at the National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
1985 Hans Hollein of Austria presented at the
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical
Gardens, San Marino, California
1986 Gottfried Boehm of Germany presented at
Goldsmiths' Hall, London, England
1987 Kenzo Tange of Japan 
presented at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth,
Texas
1988 Gordon Bunshaft of the United States and 
Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil presented at The Art
Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1989 Frank O. Gehry of the United States 
presented at Todaiji Buddhist Temple, Nara, Japan
1990 Aldo Rossi of Italy presented at Palazzo Grassi,
Venice, Italy
1991 Robert Venturi of the United States 
presented at Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, Mexico
1992 Alvaro Siza of Portugal 
presented at the Harold Washington Library Center,
Chicago, Illinois
1993 Fumihiko Maki of Japan presented at Prague
Castle, Czech Republic
1994 Christian de Portzamparc of France presented at
The Commons, Columbus, lndiana
1995 Tadao Ando of Japan presented at the Grand
Trianon and Chateau of Versailles, France
1996 Rafael Moneo of Spainpresented at the
construction site of The Getty Center, Los Angeles,
California
1997 Sverre Fehn of Norwaypresented at the
construction site of The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao,
Spain
1999 Sir Norman Foster of the United Kingdom
presented at the Altus Museum, Berlin, Germany
2000 Rem Koolhaas of The Netherlands
presented at the Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel
2001 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
of Switzerland
presented at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Virginia
2002 Glenn Murcutt of Australia
presented at Michelangelo's Campidoglio, Rome, Italy
2003Jørn Utzon of Denmark
presented at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San
Fernando
Zaha Hadid Becomes the First  Woman to
Receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize
Los Angeles, CA— Zaha Hadid, an
Iraqi born British citizen has been chosen
as the 2004 Laureate of the Pritzker
Architecture Prize marking the first time
a woman has been named for this 26 year
old award. Hadid, who is 53, has
completed one project in the United
States, the Richard and Lois Rosenthal
Center for Contemporary Art in
Cincinnati, Ohio; and is currently
developing another to co-exist with a
Frank Lloyd Wright structure, the Price
Tower Arts Center in Bartlesville,
Oklahoma.
 Her other completed projects in Europe include a fire station for the Vitra
Furniture Company in Weil am Rhein, Germany; LFone/Landesgartenschau,
an exhibition building to mark the 1999 garden festival in that same city; a car
park and terminus Hoenheim North, a “park and ride” and tramway on the
outskirts of Strasbourg, France; and a ski jump situated on the Bergisel
Mountain overlooking Innsbruck, Austria.
She has numerous other projects in various stages of development including a
building for BMW in Leipzig, and a Science Center in Wolfsburg, both in
Germany; a National Center of Contemporary Arts in Rome; a Master Plan for
Bilbao, Spain; a Guggenheim Museum for Taichung, Taiwan; and a high speed
train station outside Naples; and a new public archive, library and sport center
in Montpellier, France.
In announcing the jury’s choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt
Foundation, said, “It is gratifying to us as sponsors of the prize to see our very
independent jury honor a woman for the first time. Although her body of work
is relatively small, she has achieved great acclaim and her energy and ideas
show even greater promise for the future.”
Zaha Hadid – Biography in
Brief
 Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural
Association in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977. She
then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA
with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own
studio at the AA until 1987.
More recently, she held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design,
Harvard University; the Sullivan Chair at the University of Illinois, School of
Architecture in Chicago; and has held guest professorships at the Hochschule für
Bildende Künste in Hamburg, the Knolton School of Architecture, Ohio and the
Masters Studio at Columbia University, New York. In addition, she was made an
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fellow of the
American Institute of Architecture and a Commander of the British Empire, 2002. She
is currently Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria and is the
Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor of Architectural Design for the Spring Semester 2004
at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Hadid has become known as an architect who consistently pushes the boundaries of
architecture and urban design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts
intensifying existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that
encompasses all fields of design, ranging from urban scale through to products,
interiors and furniture. Best known for her seminal built works, her central concerns
involve a simultaneous engagement in practice, teaching and research.
Built Projects:
Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein,
Germany
LFone Landesgartenschau, Weil am
Rhein, Germany
Car Park and Terminus, Strasbourg,
France
Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck,Austria
The Richard and Lois Rosenthal
Center for Contemporary Art,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Unbuilt Projects:
Cardiff Opera House, Cardiff, Wales,
UK
The Peak, Kowloon, Hong Kong
KMR, Art and Media Centre,
Dusseldorf, Germany
Malevich’s Tektonik, London, UK
Current Projects:
BMW Central Building, Leipzig,
Germany
Maxxi: National Centre of
Contemporary Arts, Rome, Italy
Phaeno Science Center Wolfsburg,
Wolfsburg, Germany
Guggenheim Museum, Taichung,
Taiwan
High Speed Train Station Napoli
Afragola, Naples, Italy
Herault Culture Sport, Montpellier,
France
Zorrozaurre Master Plan, Bilbao,
Spain
Price Tower Arts Centre, Batlesville,
Oklahoma, USA
 2004 Pritzker Prize –
presented at the State
Hermitage Museum in St.
Petersburg