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...prizes in all realms proliferate, the outcomes -- who wins an Oscar or a Pulitzer -- seem evermore capricious and sentimental. Not, however, in the case of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's Nobel equivalent. The Pritzker, awarded since 1979, has earned an unsurpassed reputation for rigor, good sense and catholic taste (the $100,000 prize is an American creation, but half of the winners have been from abroad). The 1990 Pritzker laureate, announced this week, should only redouble the prize's prestige: Italy's Aldo Rossi, 58, has inspired and influenced a generation of younger architects, despite a modest built...
Like Philip Johnson, the first Pritzker winner, Rossi was born into a well- to-do family and spent a decade as an architectural chronicler before beginning to build in earnest. For most of his career, Rossi's international cult status derived mainly from his writing (The Architecture of the City, published in Italy in 1966, is a woolly but right-minded and seminal inquiry into the nature of urban spaces) and from sketchy, evocative drawings. Like Johnson, Rossi has had to live down scandalous enthusiasms. Johnson was a fascist sympathizer in the 1930s, and Rossi, whose work is sometimes reminiscent...
This year's $100,000 Pritzker Prize goes to Italy's Aldo Rossi, 58, who has inspired a generation of architects with his urban theories as well as his bold, austere buildings...
Ueberroth's group made a $464 million offer for Eastern last week and then withdrew the bid after being told by Texas Air that it had been topped by another suitor, identified by sources close to the situation as billionaire hotel executive Jay A. Pritzker...
...began publicly brawling over a possible joint bid. Angered by the spectacle, the directors called for outside offers. KKR, headed by Kravis and his cousin George Roberts, 45, made its own bid, and so did a team composed of the First Boston investment firm and Chicago's billionaire Pritzker family. The Pritzkers topped the first round of bidding with a preliminary offer of $27 billion, or about $118 a share for RJR stock that had traded for just $56 on the eve of the battle. The Johnson group boosted its offer to $100 a share while...