About Time: Pritzker Prize to Arata Isozaki
The Pritzker Prize, initiated as an annual award in 1979, has long been recognized as the world’s highest honor for architecture. The Pritzker’s international juries have an impressive record of identifying designers whose work would be admired and treasured for decades ā possibly centuries. As a veteran design journalist, I’ve been involved in press coverage of the Pritzker for all but a few of its 41 years. Over these decades, the Pritzker honorees have varied widely in age, from winners in their mid-40s on ā the majority in the 50s and early 60s that are the high points of architectural careers. This year’s choice, Arata IsozakiĀ of Japan, is in the much older “it’s about time” category. Isozaki was born in 1931, and by the mid-1960s he had produced works in Japan that gained worldwide attention. By the 1980s, he was winning design commissions in other countries, eventually completing prominent works …
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