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The article presents the author's views on Paulo Mendes da Rocha, an old Marxist architect from Brazil, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize of 2006. He says that the designs by the architect presents an influence of Marxism over them. He also compares his works with that of other contemporary architects of Brazil.

The article announces that Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has won the 2019 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The article discusses the selection of Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena to receive the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Topics include Aravena's focus on public service over design through building low-cost social housing and reconstructing cities after natural disasters, his status as the first Pritzker laureate from Chile, and his founding of the think tank Elemental with transport engineer Andres Iacobelli.

The article discusses the naming of architect Frei Otto as the winner of the Pritzker Prize for architecture, noting that the award was given to Otto after his death.

The article discusses the awarding of the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize to Japanese architect Shigeru Ban and focuses on Ban's socially conscious approach to architecture. Topics discussed include Ban's use of paper tubes and recycled materials in the building of temporary structures, homes he made out of shipping containers for victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, and materials he is developing for use in the building of modular houses.

The article announces that Japanese architect Shigeru Ban won the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his work designing shelters for use after natural disasters.

The article discusses efforts to recognize architect Denise Scott Brown's creative partnership with her husband, architect Robert Venturi, focusing on the possibility that Scott Brown could share in the 1991 Pritzker Prize awarded to Venturi. Topics addressed include a petition advocating for Brown's recognition, and the employment and recognition of women architects in the United States.

The article announces that the Japanese architect and iconoclast Toyo Ito won the Pritzker Architecture Prize on March 17, 2013 for his architectural designs.

The article discusses the iconoclastic architectural work of Richard Rogers and his receipt of the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in the profession. Renzo Piano, his co-architect on the Pompidou Center, won the prize in 1998. Rogers is also noted for designing a terminal at Barajas International Airport in Madrid, Spain, and the Lloyd's's office building in London, England. In 2007, Rogers had four projects underway in New York City.

The article looks at Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha and how he was awarded the 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Mendes da Rocha is best known for his Brazilian Sculpture Museum in São Paulo and is one of the leaders of the city's Brutalist movement. The Pritzker Prize is considered the highest honor for architects.

Reports that Thom Mayne, designer of architecture in Los Angeles, California, will be named as the winner of the 2005 Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered the profession's highest honor. Comments of Mayne in a telephone interview; Mayne's reputation as a maverick; Examples of his architecture; Background on Mayne's countercultural roots; Design of his Caltrans District 7 building, a headquarters of the California Transportation Department in Los Angeles; Mayne's signature style; Recurring elements which run through many Mayne buildings; How Mayne describes his style; Acknowledgement of the eclectic quality of Mayne's work by the Pritzker jury.

The article offers arts news briefs as of June 15, 2013 on topics including the drama series "Power" on Starz cable channel, the decision of the Pritzker Prize to exclude architect Denise Scott Brown from the 1991 Pritzker Prize, and the art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Corrections are presented to articles about the scheduling decisions for U.S. President Barack Obama's trip to Israel in the March 14, 2013 issue, the unrest in East Flatbush, Brooklyn in the March 15, 2013 issue and the winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in the March 18, 2013 issue.

An article on Aug. 12 about Wang Shu, the first Chinese architect to win the Pritzker Prize, misstated the time frame when China's vice prime minister, Li Keqiang, is likely to become his country's next prime minister. Mr. Li, who embraced Mr. Wang at the Pritzker award ceremony in May, is expected to assume the post in China's coming leadership changes, which will probably happen next spring, not this fall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

LOS ANGELES - The new movie museum planned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has its architects. Renzo Piano, whose work includes the recent expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Zoltan Pali, who has helped restore the Greek Theater and other buildings here, will join in building the film museum. The institution will be located in the old May Company department store next to Lacma. Under an earlier plan, the French architect Christian de Portzamparc was to have designed the museum, on Academy-owned land in Hollywood. But that plan collapsed as the economy softened in 2008 and was eventually replaced by current one, which calls for renovation of the 325,000-square-foot store space now known as Lacma West, rather than new construction. Mr. Piano, who won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1998, has designed a number of museums, including the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the building in which The New York Times is headquartered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Chinese architect Wang Shu, whose buildings in a rapidly developing China honor the past with salvaged materials even as they experiment with modern forms, has been awarded the 2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Mr. Wang is the first Chinese citizen to win the prize (I. M. Pei, an American, was the first Chinese-born architect to win, in 1983) and the fourth-youngest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and the architect Zaha Hadid will join the jury that selects the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest award, Thomas J. Pritzker, chairman of the Hyatt Foundation, the prize's sponsor, announced on Wednesday. Justice Breyer has long been interested in art and architecture and wrote the foreword to the 2006 book, ''Celebrating the Courthouse: A Guide for Architects, Their Clients, and the Public.'' Ms. Hadid, who received the Pritzker Prize in 2004, has projects in numerous countries including the United States, China, Germany, Spain and Italy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The professional portfolio of Richard Meier, 76, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, includes dozens of geometric designs spanning decades and continents. On Sundays, he contributes to another body of work, using scraps of found paper to create collages, a collection of which will eventually appear in a book. Mr. Meier lives in a duplex on East 72nd Street and owns a house in East Hampton, N.Y. ELISA MALA RISE AND SHINE, MAYBE Usually somewhere around 8 or 8:30. Well, it depends on the weather. If it's still gray and unpleasant-looking, maybe I'll stay in bed until 9. I usually have just coffee, with milk and sugar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Pritzker Prize-winning architect Jose Rafael Moneo has had to contend with difficult sites before. At the National Museum of Roman Art in Merida, Spain, for example, a project completed in 1986, he built a modern exhibition space over a still-buried portion of a largely excavated Roman town. In 2007 he finished an underground expansion of the early-19th-century main building of the Prado Museum in his hometown, Madrid. But few sites have proved as challenging as his latest, at Broadway and West 120th Street, for which he has designed a $200 million interdisciplinary science building, now under construction, for Columbia University. It's not just that this project involves inserting contemporary glass-and-aluminum architecture into a corner of Columbia's main Morningside Heights campus, a landscape dominated by the historic masonry of McKim, Mead & White. Mr. Moneo, who had never before designed a building in New York City, also had to grapple with placing a tall building on top of the existing gymnasium without crushing it or even interrupting the basketball season -- a daunting engineering task. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

He is not a celebrity architect, not one of the names that show up on shortlists for museums and concert hall projects or known beyond architecture circles. He hasn't designed many buildings; the one he is best known for is a thermal spa in an Alpine commune. And he has toiled in relative obscurity for the last 30 years in a remote village in the Swiss mountains. But on Monday the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor is to be named the winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize, the highest recognition for architects. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture's top honor, the Pritzker Prize. Mr. Nouvel, 62, is the second French citizen to take the prize, awarded annually to a living architect by a jury chosen by the Hyatt Foundation. (Christian de Portzamparc of France won in 1994.) His selection is to be announced Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born British architect who won the Pritzker Prize last year.

This article presents information on Zaha Hadid, a woman architect born in Iraq. Ms. Hadid has been awarded with the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Ms. Hadid believed that architecture has an educational role to play. The author opines that visitors to Ms. Hadid's first completed building in the U.S., the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, can see and admire her vision which is capable of changing a person's outlook. Architecture nowadays is regarded as an international language. The public attention it occupies today is largely due to the critical role it has played in the development of a new cosmopolitan awareness.

Announces that Glenn Murcutt, an architect from Australia, has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2002.

Announces that architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will receive the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Biographical information on both; How the two designed the Tate Modern museum in London, England; Reactions by both Herzog and de Meuron to winning the prize, which is considered the highest accolade in the profession.

Focuses on architect Rem Koolhaas, who has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2000. History of the award; Biographical and career-related information on Koolhaas; Description of several of his designs; Comments on modern architecture; Outlook for further designs.

Reports on the Pritzker Architecture Prize awarded to Sir Norman Foster. Views on the Pritzker Prize; Discussion on conflicts in architecture; Information on the book `The Long-Winded Lady.'

Reports that British architect Sir Norman Foster has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 1999. Buildings designed by Foster; Profile on Foster; Background on the award.

Discusses the ways that modern European architecture reflects the philosophical ideas of the 1960s. Work of French architect Christian de Portzamparc; Why he received the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 1994.

Reports the winning of Pritzker Architecture Prize by Tadeo Ando of Japan as announced on April 16, 1995. Works of Ando; Jurors for the prize.

Profiles Tadao Ando, a Japanese architect, winner of the 1995 Pritzker Architecture Prize. International reputation of the architect; Background of Ando; Career profile; Style of designing.

Reports that Norwegian architect, Sverre Fehn, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 1997, with his design for the Norwegian Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair. Description of his design; Information on buildings designed by Fehn; Background information on Fehn.

Offers information on the Pritzker Architecture Prizes. Jose Rafael Moneo as the 1996 awardee; Sponsorship by the Hyatt Foundation; Modeling after the Nobel Prize for Literature; Cancellation of plans to hold the 1996 awards ceremony in Jerusalem; Room for debate on the merits of awarding the prize to individual architects; Description of Moneo's design for the Atocha Railway Station in Madrid, Spain.

Reports that Spanish architect Rafael Maneo has been awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 1996. Maneo as the first Spanish to receive the prize; Cash prize for Maneo; Maneo's accomplishments.