Pritzker Prize: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to honor a living architect by the Hyatt Foundation, run by the Pritzker family. It is the world's premier architecture prize. The honor was created in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker. Largely modeled after the Nobel Prize, the Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel of architecture".

A complete list of winners:

• 1979 Philip Johnson of the United States
• 1980 Luis Barragan of Mexico
• 1981 James Stirling of the United Kingdom
• 1982 Kevin Roche of the United States
• 1983 Ieoh Ming Pei of the United States
• 1984 Richard Meier of the United States
• 1985 Hans Hollein of Austria
• 1986 Gottfried Boehm of Germany
• 1987 Kenzo Tange of Japan
• 1988 Gordon Bunshaft of the United States and Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil
• 1989 Frank Gehry of the United States
• 1990 Aldo Rossi of Italy
• 1991 Robert Venturi of the United States
• 1992 Alvaro Siza of Portugal
• 1993 Fumihiko Maki of Japan
• 1994 Christian de Portzamparc of France
• 1995 Tadao Ando of Japan
• 1996 Rafael Moneo of Spain
• 1997 Sverre Fehn of Norway
• 1998 Renzo Piano of Italy
• 1999 Sir Norman Foster of the United Kingdom
• 2000 Rem Koolhaas of The Netherlands
• 2001 Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron of Switzerland
• 2002 Glenn Murcutt of Australia
• 2003 Jørn Utzon of Denmark
• 2004 Zaha Hadid of Iraq and the United Kingdom