page_title: Pritzker Architecture Prize
section_title: List of prize winners
hierarchical_section_title: Pritzker Architecture Prize / List of prize winners
caption_attribution_description: Български: Ричард Майер на празненството на списание Vanity Fair по случай деветата годишнина на филмовия фестивал Трайбека, Ню Йорк. English: Richard Meier at the Vanity Fair celebration for the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Français&#160;: Richard Meier à la soirée Vanity Fair célébrant le Festival du Film de Tribeca 2009.
context_page_description: The Pritzker Architecture Prize is given each year by the Hyatt Foundation. It is for talented and significant architect who has created great projects throughout his or her life. Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy began the award in 1979. The Pritzker family pays for the prize. It is the top prize in architecture, and it is often called the Nobel Prize of architecture. The country, race, religion or political ideas of the architect are not important. Winners get US$100,000 and a certificate. Winners receive a medal. The back of the medal has these words in Latin—firmitas, utilitas, venustas. The idea comes from the Roman architect Vitruvius. Before 1987, a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture came with the prize money.
caption: 1984 laureate Richard Meier
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