Jean Nouvel, Office Building; Competition Entry, Berlin Centre of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1990, photomontage with computer print on photographic paper, Carnegie Museum of Art, 1997.47. Gift of the Drue Heinz Trust. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
Founded in 1979, the international Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to a living architect or architects for significant contribution to the art of architecture. This exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is on view through October 20, 2019, contains the work of more than half of the architects who have won this prize.
Influencers: The Prizker Architecture Prize presents works spanning decades of architectural innovation and creativity, offering visitors the compelling opportunity to trace changing architecture trends over the past half-century. The exhibition features models, drawings and photographs from the museum’s substantial architecture collection, in addition to other works from the Decorative Arts and Design and Photography collections.
Organized by Raymund Ryan, curator of the Heinz Architectural Center, the architects in the exhibition are: Philip Johnson, Luis Barragán, James Stirling, Kevin Roche, Richard Meier, Hans Hollein, Gordon Bunshaft, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Fumihiko Maki, Tadao Ando, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Thom Mayne, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Richard Rogers, Jean Nouvel, Peter Zumthor, Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa, Wang Shu, Shigeru Ban and 2019 recipient Arata Isozaki
To learn more, call 412.622.3131 or see: www.cmoa.org.
