Architect Robert Adam has been announced as the winner of the 2017 Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. The annual award is given “to honor lifetime contributions to traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism in the modern world.” Founded in 2003, the prize includes $200,000 and a bronze miniature of the of the Choregic Monument of Lysikrates.

Robert Adam, a Rome Scholar, is the founder of ADAM Architecture, as well as of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU). The organization works to connect those interested in traditional architecture and urbanism.

“Throughout his career, Robert Adam has engaged the critical issues of our time, challenging contemporary attitudes toward architecture and urban design. He has written extensively on the tensions between globalism and regionalism as we shape our built environment,” said Michael Lykoudis, Driehaus Prize jury chair and Francis and Kathleen Rooney Dean of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture. “Sustainability is at the foundation of his work, achieved through urbanism and architecture that is respectful of local climate, culture and building customs.”

Along with his design practice, Adam has written many publications on classical and historic architecture, including Classical Architecture: A Complete Handbook and Classic Columns: 40 years of writing on architecture. Adam is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an academician at the Academy of Urbanism, and a senior fellow at the Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment.

In conjunction with the Driehaus Prize, the late James S. Ackerman was announced as the recipient of the Henry Hope Reed Award. The annual Henry Hope Reed Award recognizes those working outside of the practice of architecture who have “supported the cultivation of the traditional city.”

“James Ackerman’s immense contributions to contemporary understanding of Renaissance architecture have greatly influenced not only the field of architectural history but the practice of architecture today,” said Richard H. Driehaus, founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Chicago-based Driehaus Capital Management LLC. “His work brought the past to life, allowing generations of architects to learn from the early masters of the craft.”

An additional award was also announced to recognized the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).

“We live in an age that often privileges the private realm over the public, and the Congress for the New Urbanism has worked tirelessly to promote the interests of the public realm. Initially through the design of new communities like Seaside, Florida, and later through education outreach that expanded demand for the improvement of established towns and cities,” stated Dean Lykoudis. “For over two decades, CNU has shown how it is possible to meet the needs of diverse communities with a basic set of principles that can be adapted for different cultures and traditions to create vibrant, beautiful places.”

This year’s jury included Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president emerita of the American Academy in Rome; Robert Davis, developer and founder of Seaside, Florida; Paul Goldberger, contributing editor at Vanity Fair; Léon Krier, architect and urban planner; and Demetri Porphyrios, principal of Porphyrios Associates.

The 15th Driehaus Prize will be presented at a ceremony on March 25th, in Chicago. </s> Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who grew up in a city destroyed by Allied bombs and went on to build bridges between East and West, on Tuesday was named this year’s winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field’s highest honor.

The 87-year-old Isozaki, whose more than 100 completed buildings defy easy categorization, is best known in the U.S. for two postmodern designs — the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Los Angeles, a 1986 structure sheathed in red sandstone, and the Team Disney Building in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., a whimsical office building completed in 1991. His latest projects include an ultrathin Milan office building, the Allianz Tower, whose lower floors are braced by four exterior steel buttresses that are painted gold.

Isozaki’s selection marks the fourth time that a Japanese architect, or pair of architects, have won the Pritzker Prize in the last 10 years, and the seventh time since the prize was first presented in 1979. Japan, this year’s honor confirms, is a Pritzker powerhouse. And at a time when the flow of people and capital across national borders has sparked tensions, the award sends an optimistic message about the value of international exchange.

Isozaki “has brought together East and West, not through mimicry or as a collage, but through the forging of new paths,” said the citation from the seven-member jury, which includes experts in the field and is chaired by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

Sponsored by Chicago’s billionaire Pritzker family, the award is given annually to recognize "consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." In light of Isozaki’s age, it is the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. Like previous winners, he will receive $100,000 and a bronze medallion. The award will be presented at the Chateau of Versailles, France in May.

In an email, Isozaki said that winning the prize signaled that he has reached a venerable stage of his work called “Okina.”

“The past Laureates and jurors are some of the architects that I have been paying most attention to since before their acceptance of the prize,” he wrote. “I am honored and thankful to be a recipient.”

Besides Breyer, who has long exhibited a strong interest in architecture, this year’s jury had two members from Japan, including Kazuyo Sejima, who won the prize in 2010 with her partner Ryue Nishizawa.

The other Japanese winners include Kenzo Tange (1987), Fumihiko Maki (1993), Tadao Ando (1995), Toyo Ito (2013) and Shigeru Ban (2014).

Asked Monday to explain Japan’s abundance of Pritzker success, Martha Thorne, the prize’s executive director and a former Art Institute of Chicago architecture curator, cited the nation’s support for international cultural exchange programs, its wealth of distinguished architectural publications, and the buildings of the Pritzker winners, which she said are characterized by “excellence in construction, clarity in the expression and sensitivity to the landscape around it.”

Isozaki was born in 1931 in the city of Oita, which is on the island of Kyushu, part of Japan’s chain of four main islands. Allied bombs struck the island during World War II.

“When I was old enough to begin an understanding of the world, my hometown was burned down,” Isozaki said in a news release accompanying the announcement of the prize. “Across the shore, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, so I grew up on ground zero. It was in complete ruins, and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city. Only barracks and shelters surrounded me. So, my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities.”

After graduating from the University of Tokyo in 1954 with a degree in architecture, Isozaki apprenticed under Tange. He opened his own firm, which now has offices in China, Italy and Spain as well as Japan, in 1963. Some of his significant early works, like a 1966 library in his home city, were done in the Brutalist style of sculptural exposed concrete, but Isozaki did not develop a signature style, he said, because Japan had such a broad range of rebuilding to do after World War II.

By the 1980s and 1990s, he had blossomed into an international figure, through teaching and such commissions as the Los Angeles museum, the Team Disney office building and the Palau Sant Jordi sports arena that was designed for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. He served on the Pritzker jury from 1979 to 1984. He has also taught at U.S. architecture schools, including those at Harvard and Yale.

In recent years, the jury’s citation said, Isozaki has demonstrated “extraordinary dynamism” in such projects as the Allianz Tower.

Isozaki has no buildings in Chicago. In 1982, as part of Neocon 14, the National Exposition of Interior Contract Furnishings, he designed a postmodern showroom in the Merchandise Mart for the E.F. Hauserman Co., an office wall-system and furniture company. The Art Institute of Chicago has a drawing of the showroom’s entrance in its collection: https://bit.ly/2VGtXGL

Isozaki’s favorite Chicago building, he wrote, is the Louis Sullivan-designed former Carson Pirie Scott & Co. building at 1 S. State St. The structure, built in stages starting in 1899, features a white glazed terra-cotta exterior that expresses its underlying steel frame, as well as spectacular cast-iron decoration. It is now known as the Sullivan Center.

Isozaki’s admiration of the building is appropriate. The bronze medal received by Pritzker winners is based on Sullivan’s designs. </s> Tokyo, March 6 (IANS) Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has received this year's Pritzker Prize, widely considered to be the profession's highest honour.

The jury said he pioneered the "understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local".

Isozaki said growing up not far from the bombed city of Hiroshima taught him how homes and cities could be rebuilt, the BBC reported on Tuesday.

He is the 46th Pritzker laureate and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honour.

The jury said Isozaki's architecture defied categorisation as it was always evolving.

"Possessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and theory, and embracing the avant-garde, he never merely replicated the status quo," it said.

Isozaki will be awarded the prize of $100,000 in May at a ceremony at the Château de Versailles in France.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Palau Saint Jordi indoor sporting arena in Barcelona are among more than 100 of his major projects.

"I grew up on ground zero," the 87-year-old said, referring to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which lies across the shore from his home town of Oita.

"It was in complete ruins and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city," he said.

"Only barracks and shelters surrounded me. So my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities."

Previous winners of the coveted prize include India's Balkrishna Doshi, Jorn Utzon who designed the Sydney Opera House, Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil and the British-Iraqi designer, Zaha Hadid. </s> Image copyright EPA Image caption Arata Isozaki in front of the Palahockey building he designed with another architect in Turin, Italy

Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has received this year's Pritzker Prize, widely considered to be the profession's highest honour.

The jury said he pioneered the "understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local".

Isozaki said growing up not far from the bombed city of Hiroshima taught him how homes and cities could be rebuilt.

He is the 46th Pritzker laureate and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honour.

The jury said Isozaki's architecture defied categorisation as it was always evolving.

"Possessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and theory, and embracing the avant-garde, he never merely replicated the status quo," it said.

Isozaki will be awarded the prize of $100,000 (£76,000) in May at a ceremony at the Château de Versailles in France.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Palau Saint Jordi indoor sporting arena in Barcelona are among more than 100 of his major projects.

Some of his other works include:

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The Allianz Tower in Milan, Italy

Image copyright Hisao Suzuki Image caption Qatar's National Convention Centre

Image copyright Mitsumasa Fujitsuka Image caption Kitakyushu's Central Library in Japan

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Thessaloniki concert hall's second auditorium, M2, in Greece

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Nara Centennial Hall in Japan

"I grew up on ground zero," the 87-year-old said, referring to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which lies across the shore from his home town of Oita.

"It was in complete ruins and there was no architecture, no buildings and not even a city," he is quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

"Only barracks and shelters surrounded me. So my first experience of architecture was the void of architecture, and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities."

Previous winners of the coveted prize include India's Balkrishna Doshi, Jorn Utzon who designed the Sydney Opera House, Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil and the British-Iraqi designer, Zaha Hadid.

All photographs subject to copyright as marked. </s> Japanese architect, urbanist and theorist Arata Isozaki, 87, on Tuesday was awarded the 2019 Pritzker Prize for a career during which he was "not afraid to change and try new ideas," according to the prize jury's announcement issued in Chicago.

"Clearly, he is one of the most influential figures in contemporary world architecture ... His architecture rests on profound understanding, not only of architecture but also of philosophy, history, theory and culture. He has brought together East and West, not through mimicry or as a collage, but through the forging of new paths," the panel said. </s> NEW YORK (AFP) - Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honour, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.

The 87-year-old's over 100 built works range from the Palau Saint Jordi, built in Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Olympics, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, his first international commission.

His hometown of Otai, Japan is a showcase of his early work, including a medical hall and annex, and a prefectural library.

"Isozaki is a pioneer in understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local - that those two forces are part of a single challenge," the chair of the jury, US Justice Stephen Breyer, said as the prize was announced Tuesday.

"For many years, he has been trying to make certain that areas of the world that have long traditions in architecture are not limited to that tradition, but help spread those traditions while simultaneously learning from the rest of the world," he said.

Isozaki is the 46th Pritzker laureate and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honour. </s> Eminent Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has won the Pritzker Prize, the "Nobel of architecture," it was announced Tuesday.

The prize's jury said the 87-year-old had been named 2019's Pritzker laureate, known internationally as architecture's highest honor, due to his original and "visionary" approach.

"Possessing a profound knowledge of architectural history and theory, and embracing the avant-garde, he never merely replicated the status quo," read a jury statement.

"His search for meaningful architecture was reflected in his buildings that to this day, defy stylistic categorizations, are constantly evolving, and always fresh in their approach," it added.

Isozaki's career has spanned more than six decades and over 100 completed buildings throughout Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and Australia.

His major works include Ceramic Park Mino and Art Tower Mito in Japan, Pala Alpitour and Allianz Tower in Italy, the Qatar National Convention Center and Shanghai Symphony Hall.

Among his best-known buildings is the Palau Sant Jordi sports facility in Barcelona, Spain, which was designed for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games and reflects his work's global influences.

The 17,000-person area's domed roof references Catalan vault-building techniques, while its sloped form was inspired by Buddhist temples. Local materials, including brick, tile, zinc and travertine, were used as finishes.

Elsewhere, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the architect's first international commission, drew specific praise from the Pritzker Prize's organizers.

"Though controversial and geographically challenging, the red Indian sandstone building was resolved by Isozaki's eloquent awareness of scale through an assemblage of volumes, while employing the golden ratio and yin yang theory throughout, evoking the complementary nature of Western and Eastern relationships," read a prize statement.

Isozaki's early architectural successes transpired in the era following the Allied occupation of Japan, when the country sought to rebuild itself from the ruins of World War II.

"(My) first experience of architecture was the void of architecture," he said, "and I began to consider how people might rebuild their homes and cities."

Tuesday's announcement comes as Asia consolidates its position in international architecture. While the Pritzker Prize has traditionally been seen as Western-centric, Isozaki is the seventh Asian architect to claim the award in the last 10 years.

Japan has now produced eight laureates (if counting 2010's joint winners, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, separately), including recent winners Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban.

Isozaki's achievement puts Japan on par with the United States, which -- when including the Canadian-born American Frank Gehry -- has also produced eight Pritzker winners.

The seven-member jury of the annual prize, which was founded in 1979, included US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, British architect (and 2007 laureate) Richard Rogers and Ratan Tata, former chairman of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group. </s> NEW YORK
• Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honour, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.

The 87-year-old's built works, which number more than 100, range from the Palau Sant Jordi, built in Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Olympics, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, his first international commission.

His home town of Otai in Japan is a showcase of his early work, including a medical hall and annex, and a prefectural library.

As the prize was announced on Tuesday, the chairman of the jury, United States Justice Stephen Breyer, said of the architect: "Isozaki is a pioneer in understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local - that those two forces are part of a single challenge.

"For many years, he has been trying to make certain that areas of the world that have long traditions in architecture are not limited to that tradition, but help spread those traditions while simultaneously learning from the rest of the world."

Isozaki is the 46th Pritzker laureate and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honour. Winners get a bronze medallion and US$100,000 (S$135,700). The prize ceremony is in May in Paris.

Isozaki is considered one of the first Japanese architects to have Western styles and influences in his work, and had spent much time in the West travelling and studying.

But his interest in cultural diversity was sparked by the influence of American culture in post-World War II Japan - whose cities had just been devastated by US aerial bombing - when his country was occupied by US troops.

He was intrigued by the contrasting aesthetic codes of the two countries, as he joined a new generation of Japanese architects rebuilding their flattened cities.

With his swept-back grey hair and penchant for Chairman Mao-style shirt collars, the Japanese architect has designed buildings on four continents, from sports venues to office buildings to museums.

His works have built on the philosophy of his mentor Kenzo Tange, a modernist architect whose own works are scattered around the globe and was a Pritzker winner in 1987.

Aside from his cosmopolitan outlook, Isozaki is also known for never confining himself to one set style.

The two main elements of his work - cosmopolitanism and the desire to meld with the environment - found their apotheosis in Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi.

Completed in 1990 as the stage for the Olympic Games' gymnastic events two years later, the domed venue is partially sunken into the summit of the Montjuic hill overlooking Barcelona, so that it appears to be part of the hill itself.

In Japan, his most celebrated works include the Kitakyushu municipal museum of art, built in 1974, and the Kamioka town hall from 1978, which reflect the architect's eclecticism: the former is all straight lines and sharp angles, while the latter is liquidly smooth and curvaceous. Last year, the Pritzker Prize was awarded to 90-year-old Indian Balkrishna Doshi. </s> Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions.

The 87-year-old's more than 100 built works range from the Palau Saint Jordi, built in Barcelona for the 1992 Summer Olympics, to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, his first international commission.

His hometown of Otai, Japan is a showcase of his early work, including a medical hall and annex, and a prefectural library.

"Isozaki is a pioneer in understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local -- that those two forces are part of a single challenge," the chair of the jury, U.S. Justice Stephen Breyer, said as the prize was announced Tuesday.

"For many years, he has been trying to make certain that areas of the world that have long traditions in architecture are not limited to that tradition, but help spread those traditions while simultaneously learning from the rest of the world," he said.

Isozaki is the 46th Pritzker laureate and the eighth Japanese architect to receive the honor. Winners receive a bronze medallion and $100,000.

The prize will be awarded in May at a ceremony in Paris.

His office of Arata Isozaki & Associates, in Tokyo did not have an immediate comment on the announcement.

Isozaki is considered one of the first Japanese architects to have absorbed western styles and influences into his work, and spent much time in the west traveling and studying.

But his interest in cultural diversity was sparked by the influence of American culture in post-WWII Japan -- whose cities had just been devastated by U.S. aerial bombing -- when his country was occupied by US troops.

He was intrigued at an early age by the contrasting aesthetic codes of the two countries, as he joined a new generation of Japanese architects rebuilding their flattened cities.

With his swept-back gray hair and penchant for Chairman Mao-style shirt collars, the distinguished Japanese architect has designed buildings on four continents, from sports venues to office buildings and museums.

His works have built on the philosophy of his mentor Kenzo Tange, a modernist architect whose own works are scattered around the globe and who took the Pritzker himself in 1987.

Aside from his cosmopolitan outlook, Isozaki is also known for never confining himself to one set style, showing more interest in integrating each of his constructions into their individual settings.

"My pleasure is to create different things, not the same thing," he told the website ArchDaily in 2017. "For the media or identity and so on, (it's) very confusing."

The two main elements of his work -- cosmopolitanism and the desire to meld with the environment -- found their apotheosis in Barcelona's Palau Sant Jordi.

Completed in 1990 as the stage for the Olympic Games gymnastic events two years later year, the domed venue is partially sunken into the summit of the Montjuic hill overlooking Barcelona, so that it appears to be part of the hill itself.

In Japan, his most celebrated works include the Kitakyushu municipal museum of art, built in 1974, and the Kamioka town hall from 1978, which reflect the architect's eclecticism: the former is all straight lines and sharp angles, while the latter is liquidly smooth and curvaceous.

Isozaki is also deeply attached to the Japanese concept of 'ma' which relates to the sense of space separating two objects.

Last year, the Pritzker Prize was awarded to 90-year-old Indian Balkrishna Doshi.
The Driehaus Architecture Prize for New Classical architecture is awarded to Robert Adam in Chicago.