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...because so much of it has been both small scale and high end: jewelry stores, a travel agency, an art gallery. The quirky architect will not have to worry about professional stature any longer. Last week, a few days after his 51st birthday, Hollein was awarded the seventh annual Pritzker Architecture Prize, the closest thing in the field to a Nobel. The prize, established and underwritten by Chicago Multimillionaire Jay Pritzker, comes with a tax-free gift...
Hollein can use the money. He is not widely known. Relatively few of his designs have been built, and most of those were reconstructions and renovations. Some Pritzker jurors were concerned about his comparatively skimpy oeuvre. In the end, however, he was allowed a European handicap: on the Continent, there are not many opportunities for the expansive architectural gesture, and fewer buildings are being built than...
Like most postmodernists, Hollein says he is not a postmodernist. But as the Pritzker citation declared, he is "one who with wit and eclectic gusto draws upon the traditions of the New World as readily as upon those of the Old." Says Hollein: "I was never afraid to use materials in new contexts--plastics or alu- minum or marble, and all this together." Nowhere does he put more forms and materials together better than in his museum of contemporary art in Monchengladbach, West Germany. The Pritzker ostensibly honors a lifetime of work, but surely it is Monchengladbach that...
Team owner John Mecom Jr. of Houston and the wealthy. Pritzker family of Chicago have been trying to make a multi-million deal for weeks...
...mentally retarded (1976); and the Atheneum, a visitors' center at the restored Utopian community of New Harmony, Ind. (1979). Meier has also designed museums that are under construction in Frankfurt, West Germany, and Des Moines. In recognition of his body of work, Meier was awarded the 1984 Pritzker Prize last April. The honor, architecture's equivalent of the Nobel, confirms his place in the forefront of contemporary architects...