1979 - PHILIP JOHNSON

 1906-2005
 Cleveland, Ohio
 First building at the age of 36
 Museum of Modern Art's first director
 Designed a residence for himself in New Canaan, Connecticut Glass House
 Coined the term "International School of Architecture"
 One of the most controversial AT&T headquarters or "Chippendale" top.
 AWARDED FOR HIS talent, vision and commitment
 Championed the cause of modern architecture (50 YEARS)

SELECTED WORKS
 GLASS HOUSE
 AT&T BUILDING HEADQUARTERS
 CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL
 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON
 AMON CARTER MUSEUM

1980 - LUIS BARRAGAN

 1902-1988
 Guadalajara, Mexico
 Engineering @23, self-taught
 Escuela Tapatía or Guadalajara School- REGIONAL TRADITIONS MOVEMENT
 called himself a landscape architect (architects should design gardens)
 Wrote the book, Contemporary Architects, (Muriel Emanuel (ed.) published by St. Martins
Press, 1980)
 his work have been described as "mystical" as well as serene.
 for his commitment to architecture as a sublime act of the poetic imagination

SELECTED WORKS
 CUADRA SAN CRISTOBAL
 BARRAGAN HOUSE
 Capuchinas Sacramentarias del Purismo Corazon de Maria
 LAS ARBOLEDAS
 FUENTE DE LOS AMANTES

1981 - JAMES STIRLING

 1926-1992
 Glasgow
 University of Liverpool School of Architecture
 “I believe that the shapes of a building should indicate—perhaps display—the usage and
way of life of its occupants.”
 a prodigy for so many years
 a leader of the great transition from the Modern Movement to the architecture of the New
 old "modern times," 45 degree angles in plan and section

SELECTED WORKS
 ENGINEERING BLDG., UNIV OF LEICESTER
 HISTORY FACULTY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE UNIV
 ST. ANDREWS UNIV
 NEUE STAATSGALERIE
 ARTHUR M. SACKLER MUSEUM, HARVARD UNIV
 CLORE GALLERY, TATE GALLERY

1982 - KEVIN ROCHE

 1922-2019
 Dublin, Ireland
 with Mies van der Rohe at Illinois Institute of Technology
 design after Saarinen's death was the Oakland Museum
 distinct individuality and stylistic variety from project to project
 One of his early honors was the California Governor's Award for Excellence in Design
 intersects fashion

SELECTED WORKS
 FORD FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS
 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBA HQ
 COLLEGE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY HQ
 CENTER FOR THE ARTS, WESLEYAN UNIV
 FINE ARTS CENTER, UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTSTS
 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, LEHMAN PAVILION
 UNITED NATIONS PLAZA, UNICEF HQ
 CUMMINS ENGINE COMPANY HQ
1983 - I.M PEI
 1917
 Canton China
 designed over fifty projects
 East Building of the National Gallery of Art & extension of the Louvre in Paris, France
 beautiful interior spaces and exterior forms

SELECTED WORKS
 NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH
 EVERSON MUSEUM OF ART
 PAUL MELLON ARTS CENTER
 HERBERT JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART
 OCBC CENTER
 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

1984 - RICHARD MEIER

 At 49, Richard Meier was the youngest architect to receive
 design of The Getty Center
 single-minded pursuit of the essence of modern architecture
 balancing light and space

SELECTED WORKS
 SMITH HOUSE
 DOUGLAS HOUSE
 THE ATHENEUM
 HARTFORD SEMINARY
 HIGH MUSEUM OF ART
 MUSEUM OF DECORATIVE ARTS

1985 - HANS HOLLEIN

 1934
 VIENNA, AUSTRIA
 Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
 awarded a Harkness Fellowship
 Richard Feigen Gallery- HIS FIRST COMMISSION
 "an architect's sense of space with a goldsmith's sense of craft to produce an exquisite
ambiance for art."
 master of his profession
 good fortune to design museums

SELECTED WORKS
 RETTI CANDLESHOP
 JEWELLERY STORE
 AUSTRIAN TRAVEL AGENCY, MAIN OFFICE
 Museum Abteiberg Moenchengladbach
 THE GYMNASTIC LESSON

1986 - HANS HOLLEIN

 1920–2021
 simple to the complex
 Expressionist
 creating "connections"
 Against "the exaggerations of the historicizing movement, and mindless imitation of earlier
eras."
 insisted on "spiritually enriching human values in architecture,"
 nourishment that traditional ways
 design of churches, town halls, public housing, or office buildings

SELECTED WORKS
 DWELLING HOUSE
 NEVIGES PILGRIMAGE CHURCH
 CITY HALL GERMANY
 MUSEUM OF DIOCESE
1987 - KENZO TANGE
 1913-2005
 one of Japan’s most honored architects
 was in charge of the reconstruction of Hiroshima after World War II
 made the city symbolic of the human longing for peace
 "Spatial Structure in a Large City,"
 Given talent, energy, and a sufficiently long career

SELECTED WORKS
 Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
 St Mary’s Cathedral
 Yoyogi National Gymnasium for the 1964 Summer Olympics
 Tokyo City Hall Complex

1988 - OSCAR NIEMEYER

 1907-2012
 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 conceived as lyrical sculpture
 designed the Brazilian Pavilion
 It is sometimes in music, painting, sculpture, or literature
 His building designs are the distillation of colors, light and sensual imagery of his native land.

SELECTED WORKS
 Congress (Chamber of Deputies and Congress Office Towers)
 Metropolitan Cathedral of Brasilia
 Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

GORDON BUNSHAFT
 1909-1990
 skyscraper design
 International Style as corporate America's standard in architecture
 an architect of modest claims and significant deeds
 he prefers that his buildings speak for him, he has chosen eloquent spokesmen

SELECTED WORKS
 Albright Knox Art Gallery
 Lever House
 Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

1989 - FRANK GEHRY

 recently commissioned Walt Disney Concert Hall
 Born in Canada in 1929
 "architecture is art"
 where retrospectives are more prevalent than risk-taking
 Gehry's work is a highly refined, sophisticated and adventurous aesthetic that emphasizes
the art of architecture.
 Always open to experimentation, he has as well a sureness and maturity that resists, in the
same way that Picasso did, being bound either by critical acceptance or his successes.

SELECTED WORKS
 Pritzker Pavilion
 Gehry Residence
 California Aerospace Museum
 Guggenheim Museum
 DZ Bank

1990 - ALDO ROSSI

 1931-1997
 Ada Louise Huxtable, architectural critic and Pritzker juror has described Rossi as "a poet
who happens to be an architect."
 A Scientific Autobiography, he describes an auto accident that occurred in 1971 as being a
turning point in his life, ending his youth, and inspiring a project for the cemetery at Modena.
 An architect who would be the best he can be must serve a lifetime apprenticeship, well
beyond that required for official licensing.
 He must know human behavior, understand structures and materials, and how to
shape forms and spaces to serve intended purposes in inspired and original ways.
 His book, Architecture and the City, published in 1966, is a text of significance in the study
of urban design and thinking. Out of this theoretical base came designs that seem always to
be a part of the city fabric, rather than an intrusion.
 office complex, hotel, cemetery, a floating theatre, an exquisite coffee pot, or even toys,
captures the essence of purpose.

SELECTED WORKS
 San Cataldo Cemetery
 “La Conica” Espresso Coffee Maker
 Quartier Schützenstrasse

1991 - ROBERT VENTURI

 1925-2018
 one of the most original talents in contemporary architecture
 saving modern architecture from itself
 graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947
 In his first book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published in 1966 by the
Museum of Modern Art, Venturi posed the question, "Is not Main Street almost all right?" He
was arguing for what he called "the messy vitality" of the built environment

SELECTED WORKS
 Vanna Venturi House
 Fire Station #4
 Coxe-Hayden House and Studio
 Gordon Wu Hall (interior)
 Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery (interior)

1992 - ALVARO SIZA

 "Every design," says Siza, "is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a
transitory image in all its nuances.
 June 25, 1933 in the small coastal town of Matosinhos, just north of Porto, Portugal
 Siza's work ranges from swimming pools to mass housing developments, with
residences for individuals, banks, office buildings, restaurants, art galleries, shops,
virtually every other kind of structure in between.
 Precisely for this reason his architecture can communicate to us an extraordinary sense of
freedom and freshness; in it one clearly reads the unfolding of an authentic design adventure
 joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit. Each line and curve is placed with skill and
sureness.
 Post Modernism

SELECTED WORKS
 Restaurante da Boa Nova
 Piscina Leca
 Bouça Housing Complex
 Servei de Meteorologica
 Centro de Art Gallego
 Facultad de Arquitectura, University of Porto
 Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art

1993 - FUMIHIKO MAKI

 calls himself a modernist, unequivocally.
 His buildings tend to be direct, at times understated, and made of metal, concrete and glass
 maintained a consistent interest in new technology
 born in Tokyo on September 6, 1928,
 studied with Kenzo Tange at the University of Tokyo where he
 received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1952
 Fumihiko Maki of Japan is an architect whose work is intelligent and artistic in concept and
expression, meticulously achieved.
 fused the best of both eastern and western cultures to create an architecture representing
the age-old qualities of his native country
 expressed his constant concern for the "parts" and the "whole”—describing one of his
goals as achieving a dynamic equilibrium that includes sometimes conflicting masses,
volumes, and materials.

SELECTED WORKS
 YKK Guest House
 Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium
 SPIRAL
 National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto
 Iwasaki Art Museum Annex
 Makuhari Messe I
 TEPIA
 Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
 Hillside Terrace Complex
 Tokyo Church of Christ
1994 - Christian de PORTZAMPARC
 May 5 (1994) (HE WON THE SAME YEAR AS HIS BDAY)
 seventeenth person and the sixth European to be so honored
 a designer who painted before he decided to study architecture
 CITY OF MUSIC, FRANCE
 classicism nor modernism
 gifted composer using space, structure, texture, form, light and color all shaped by his
personal vision.
 first French architect to be awarded the Pritzker Prize

SELECTED WORKS
 Cité de la Musique