2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: Riken Yamamoto, Jian Wai SOHO, 2004, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Courtesy of Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
ARCHITECTURE
Riken Yamamoto
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, is the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yamamoto, architect and social advocate, establishes kinship between public and private realms, inspiring harmonious societies despite a diversity of identities, economies, politics, infrastructures and housing systems. Deeply committed to the preservation of community life, he asserts that the value of privacy has become an urban sensibility, when in fact members of a community should support each other. He defines community as a "sense of sharing one space," deconstructing traditional notions of freedom and privacy while rejecting longstanding conditions that have reduced housing to a commodity with no relationship to neighbors.
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Jane Drew Prize 2024
Image: Atelier Iwona Buczkowska, "Pièce pointue" – Cité Pierre Semard, Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France. Photo: Nolwenn Auneau / Topophile
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Iwona Buczkowska
Jane Drew Prize
Polish-French architect Iwona Buczkowska has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2024, recognising an architectural designer who has raised the profile of women in architecture. Founding her practice Atelier Iwona Buczkowska in 1980, Buczkowska has completed several radical social housing and public building projects in France. She designed the largest timber housing complex in France, the Cité Pierre Sémard, a 225-unit social housing project completed in the early 1990s in Seine-Saint-Denis. Rejecting standardisation, she favours arches and oblique planes to create bright, intimate homes.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
Image: Mæ Architects, John Morden Centre, London, United Kingdom, 2021. © Jim Stephenson
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John Morden Centre by Mæ
RIBA Stirling Prize
The John Morden Centre by Mæ has been named winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, awarded to the UK's best new building. An inspiring example of architecture enabling elderly living without isolation, the John Morden Centre has been designed to encourage connection and movement among residents, supporting healthier and longer lives. This 300-year-old residential and nursing facility has been given a new lease of life with treatment rooms, a hair salon, nail bar, events space and wellbeing facilities in a beautiful setting in Blackheath, London.
RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2024
Image: Counteract, Kéré Architecture. Photo © Matteo de Mayda / Courtesy of 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The laboratory of the Future
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Lesley Lokko
RIBA Royal Gold Medal
Professor Lesley Lokko, acclaimed Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, author and curator, is the RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2024 recipient. Lesley Lokko has devoted her career to amplifying under-represented voices and examining the complex relationship between architecture, identity and race, profoundly impacting architectural education, dialogue and discourse. In 2021, she founded the African Futures Institute (AFI) in Accra, Ghana, aiming to be a new model of education, research and public dialogue that unites the arts, humanities and sciences. In 2023, she was awarded an OBE for services to architecture and education and was appointed curator of the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
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2024 Charlotte Perriand Award
Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2018, designed by Frida Escobedo. Serpentine Gallery, London. © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Photography © 2018 Rafael Gamo
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Frida Escobedo
Charlotte Perriand Award
The Créateurs Design Association & Awards has named Mexican architect Frida Escobedo winner of the 2024 Charlotte Perriand Award. In 2006, Frida Escobedo set up her eponymous Mexico City-based studio, where she developed the varied body of work for which she is now known. Among the 44-year-old architect's standout achievements is becoming the youngest Serpentine Pavilion architect in 2018. Other key projects by Escobedo include the conversion of the former home of painter David Alfaro Siqueiros into a public gallery, low-cost housing in Hidalgo and an Aztec-inspired installation for the V&A.
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Grand Prix d’Architecture 2024
Académie des beaux-arts
Image: Bernard Tschumi Architects, MuséoParc Alésia, Alise-Sainte-Reine, France, 2012. Photo: Christian Richters
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Bernard Tschumi
Grand Prix d’Architecture
Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi was awarded the Grand Prix d’Architecture de l'Académie des beaux-arts 2024. One of the most significant architects of his generation, his atypical career as an architect is rooted in both teaching and theoretical research. His work, both theoretical and built, emphasises the relationship between concept and context and between space and event. In 1982, he won the project for the Parc de la Villette in Paris, his first competition.
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2024 AIA Gold Medal
Image: Lake Flato Architects, Confluence Park, Pavilion, San Antonio, United States, 2018. Photo by Casey Dunn
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David Lake and Ted Flato
AIA Gold Medal
David Lake and Ted Flato of Texas studio Lake Flato Architects are the 2024 winners of the AIA Gold Medal for their engagement with "controversial environmental and socio-political issues". The two architects, who cofounded their studio, Lake Flato Architects, in San Antonio, Texas in 1984, were cited by the eight-person jury for their ability to make "sustainability exciting in a way few other architects have accomplished".
