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...work cannot be recognized by any personal style other than its marvelous competence and attention to detail. Roche, 59, seems above the style wars raging in the world of architecture. That lofty stance may be one reason why last week he won that world's highest honor: the Pritzker Architecture Prize...
Said Roche wryly as he received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
...British architect James Stirling, who this week unveiled his plans for the Fogg Art Museum's new building, was named on Wednesday the winner of the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The award, established in 1979 by the Pritzker family, owners of the Hvatt Hotel chain, is given annually "to honor the lifetime contributions of pre-eminent architects all over the world...
...Barragán, the drip and plash of that water in his memory's ear, has sought to re-create the serenity and beauty of the little village's patios, places of refuge for body and spirit. Last week his success was recognized with the prestigious $100,000 Inter national Pritzker Architecture Prize, created last year by the Hyatt Foundation to do for architecture what the Nobel Prize does for other disciplines. Declared the citation: "He has created some of our most unforgettable gardens, plazas and fountains, all magical places for meditation and companionship...
...action program and then sit back and drink brandy and smoke cigars. They've got to put more energy into finding people and letting them know they truly want their school or profession to reflect the population at large." Joseph Ceithaml, admissions officer and dean of students at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, thinks the "emphasis will be more on preparing minorities and building a pool of minority students to draw from. This may mean fewer accepted applicants among minorities in the next few years until the pool is built...