2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: David Chipperfield Architects, Amorepacific Headquarters, Seoul, Korea, 2010-2017.
Photo courtesy of Noshe and the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
ARCHITECTURE
Sir David Alan Chipperfield
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has been awarded the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his profession’s highest honor. "Subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant, he is a prolific architect who is radical in his restraint," the jury said in a statement. With a career spanning over four decades, Chipperfield has worked across various typologies, geographies and scales. From his initial projects in England such as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames or fashion designer Issey Miyake's London store to the current restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice, there remains a consistent thread, his reverence for history and culture. David Chipperfield Architects' works constantly stitch contemporary architecture into the fabric of both pre-existing built and natural environments.
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2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Image: Zero Carbon Cultural Centre (ZC3), Makli, Sindh–2017 © Heritage Foundation of Pakistan
ARCHITECTURE
Yasmeen Lari
RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has been awarded this year's 2023 RIBA Royal Gold Medal. Yasmeen is known as an 'Architect for the Poorest of the Poor', a champion of women's rights and a proponent of zero carbon footprint. She is Pakistan's first female architect and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan. Her namesake architectural firm designed some of the most iconic projects in the country until Lari retired in 2000 to focus on heritage conservation and humanitarian architecture.
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2023 Charlotte Perriand Award
Image: Studio Gang, Aqua Tower Chicago, IL, 2010. Photo: Steve Hall © Hedrich Blessing
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Jeanne Gang
Charlotte Perriand Award
American architect, sustainability advocate and educator Jeanne Gang is the recipient of the 2023 Charlotte Perriand Award. Founder of Chicago-based architecture and urban design firm Studio Gang, she was chosen in recognition of her design of the Aqua Tower, the tallest building designed by a woman in the world at the time of its completion in 2010, as well as her pioneering spirit and contribution to the field of architecture and design. Recognised for challenging the aesthetical and technical possibilities, Gang’s works span a spectrum of typologies, particularly high rise residential developments, cultural and institutional centres, higher education spaces and government and civic buildings.
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Biennale Architettura 2023
Image: Demas Nwoko, Dominican Chapel, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1977. (Image credit: Andrew Esiebo)
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Demas Nwoko
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Architettura 2023. Demas Nwoko was at the forefront of Nigeria’s Modern Art movement. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate African subject matter in most of his works. "The profound desire to blend and synthesise, rather than sweep away, has characterised Nwoko's work for over five decades. He was one of the first Nigerian makers of space and form to critique Nigeria’s reliance on the West for imported materials and goods, as well as ideas, and has remained committed to using local resources.", said Lesley Lokko in a statement.
Image: Pavilion of Brazil: Terra [Earth]/ Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares. © Matteo de Mayda
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Brazil Pavilion
Golden Lion for Best National Participation
The Brazilian Pavilion titled Terra [Earth], commissioned by José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Biennale Architettura 2023. The winning intervention was awarded for "a research exhibition and architectural intervention that center the philosophies and imaginaries of indigenous and black population towards modes of reparation.", said the jury.
Image: DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. © Andrea Avezz
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DAAR
Golden Lion for the best participant in the 18th Exhibition The Laboratory of the Future
The Golden Lion for the best participant in the 18th ExhibitionThe Laboratory of the Future was awarded to DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research) led by architects Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal (Stockholm; Bethlehem). The duo were awarded by the jury for "their long-standing commitment to deep political engagement with architectural and learning practices of decolonization in Palestine and Europe."
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2023 Jane Drew Prize
Image: SANAA, Louvre-Lens, Lens, France, 2006. © Julien Lanoo
ARCHITECTURE
Kazuyo Sejima
Jane Drew Prize
Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2023. Sejima is co-founder of Pritzker-winning SANAA, which she established with Ryue Nishizawa in Tokyo in 1995, having started her career in the office of Toyo Ito and founding her own office, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates, in 1987. The Sydney Modern, designed by SANAA, opened at the end of last year and is the practice’s first project in Australia. SANAA is also known for designing art galleries such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and Louvre-Lens in France.
2023 AIA Gold Medal
Image: Ross Barney Architects, Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,
completed 2005. © Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing Photographers
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Carol Ross Barney
AIA Gold Medal
Chicago-based architect, Carol Ross Barney, has been awarded the 2023 AIA Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architecture, for her achievements as a designer and an educator. Educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Barney joined the Peace Corps where she helped to build up the Costa Rica National Park Service before returning to Chicago in 1981 to found her studio – Ross Barney Architects. An early major commission included the redesign of the Oklahoma City Federal Building after the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, creating a U-shaped building that indicated "hope in the face of overwhelming tragedy". Barney is also known for her extensive work rejuvenating the Chicago River waterfront.
