Pritzker Prize

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Context: British architect David Chipperfield received the Pritzker prize.

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David Alan Chipperfield, a British architect and urban planner, has received the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
He is a London-based architect with offices in four other nations and has worked in cities across Asia and Europe as well as in the United States, including Davenport, Iowa, and Anchorage, Alaska.
Chipperfield's work spanned more than 100 projects over four decades and included residences, civic, academic, and urban planning buildings as well as a recent addition to Berlin's prestigious Museum Island complex.
In 1985, he established David Chipperfield Architects in London. The company later added locations in Berlin, Shanghai, Milan, and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
In 1985, he established David Chipperfield Architects in London. The company later added locations in Berlin, Shanghai, Milan, and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Chipperfield, the 52nd recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, was also given a bronze medallion in addition to a $100,000 grant.

About The Pritzker Prize

It is an international architecture award presented annually "to honour a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
It was founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation.
It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for architecture.
The Prize is said to be awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology".
The recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and, since 1987, a bronze medallion.