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Some fans drove overnight from Ottawa to hear her talk. Nicole Riess, Terra Kitzul and Lynn Kasinska, all architecture students at the Canadian Carleton University, wanted to see her in person before studying in London--Hadid's home city--next year.
Jorge Silvetti, chair of the architecture department at the GSD, introduced Hadid's work to the crowd of 450 at Piper Auditorium as "suspicious, disturbing, but also alluring."
"It proves that architecture as a fine art has not run out of steam," he said.
Chair of the Architecture Department Jorge M. Silvetti, who was also a member of the prize jury, organized a reception today honoring Koolhaas.
Koolhaas is the 23rd Pritzker Prize laureate and the first from the Netherlands. Past Harvard affiliates who have also won the award are Sert Professor in Architecture Jose R. Moneo, who was the 1996 laureate, and Christian de Portzamparc, a lecturer who won the prize in 1994.