"Fueled More by Public Service Than by Aesthetic Design"

Robin Pogrebin at The New York Times reports (back in January) that Alejandro Aravena has won the 2016 Pritzker Prize for architecture.

"Drifting In and Out of Focus Like a Dream"

Robin Pogrebin in The New York Times reports that Toyo Ito has won the 2013 Pritzker Prize for architecture.

"Timeless, Deeply Rooted in Its Context and Yet Universal"

Robin Pogrebin in The New York Times reports that Wang Shu has won the 2012 Pritzker Prize for architecture.

Architecture in Portugal

Kate Taylor at The New York Times reports that Eduardo Souto de Moura has won the 2011 Pritzker Prize for architecture.

And Slate reposts Witold Rybczynski's 2008 criticism of the Pritzker.

Prize Round-Up

In March, Columbia University awarded the Bancroft Prize to historians Allan M. Brandt, Charles Postel, and Peter Silver, and Jean Nouvel won architecture's Pritzker Prize.

Inside Out

Artdaily.com reports as architect Richard Rogers, a designer of the Pompidou Centre, receives the 2007 Pritzker Prize.

Understanding the Poetics of Space

"'It suggests that the compass has rotated somewhere' away from Western Europe and the U.S., he said. 'Here's this old-fashioned model of someone like Gaudí, who barely set foot outside Barcelona. It stretches the world's frame of reference: He hasn't had to move physically to move the world internationally.'"

Scott Timberg in the Los Angeles Times profiles Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of the 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

An Award-Winning Caltrans Building

The New York Times reports that UCLA's Thom Mayne has won the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize.