{
  "name": "Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates 1979–2026",
  "description": "Source: Fax Office 1987 reference archive. https://www.faxoffice1987.com/reference/pritzker-prize-winners",
  "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
  "source": "https://www.faxoffice1987.com/reference/pritzker-prize-winners",
  "records": [
    { "year": 1979, "name": "Philip Johnson", "country": "United States", "note": "Inaugural prize; postmodernism's American architect-curator." },
    { "year": 1980, "name": "Luis Barragán", "country": "Mexico", "note": "Pink walls, water, light. Color as architectural material." },
    { "year": 1981, "name": "James Stirling", "country": "United Kingdom", "note": "Stuttgart Staatsgalerie; postmodern bricolage with civic weight." },
    { "year": 1982, "name": "Kevin Roche", "country": "Ireland / United States", "note": "Eero Saarinen successor; corporate modernism after the master." },
    { "year": 1983, "name": "I.M. Pei", "country": "United States", "note": "Louvre Pyramid, National Gallery East Wing. Geometric modernism." },
    { "year": 1984, "name": "Richard Meier", "country": "United States", "note": "White-on-white modernist. Getty Center programme." },
    { "year": 1985, "name": "Hans Hollein", "country": "Austria", "note": "Postmodern jeweller of small objects and museum interiors." },
    { "year": 1986, "name": "Gottfried Böhm", "country": "Germany", "note": "Expressionist concrete; the Neviges pilgrimage church." },
    { "year": 1987, "name": "Kenzo Tange", "country": "Japan", "note": "Metabolist movement's elder; Tokyo Olympic stadia 1964." },
    { "year": 1988, "name": "Gordon Bunshaft & Oscar Niemeyer", "country": "United States / Brazil", "note": "Two-laureate edition. Lever House (Bunshaft) + Brasília (Niemeyer).", "shared": true },
    { "year": 1989, "name": "Frank Gehry", "country": "Canada / United States", "note": "Pre-Bilbao breakthrough year. Deconstructivism on the brink." },
    { "year": 1990, "name": "Aldo Rossi", "country": "Italy", "note": "Italian rationalism; the autobiographical typology argument." },
    { "year": 1991, "name": "Robert Venturi", "country": "United States", "note": "\"Less is a bore.\" Learning from Las Vegas as architectural theory." },
    { "year": 1992, "name": "Alvaro Siza", "country": "Portugal", "note": "Quiet Iberian modernism; ocean swimming pools at Leça." },
    { "year": 1993, "name": "Fumihiko Maki", "country": "Japan", "note": "Lightweight metabolism; Spiral Building in Tokyo as the type." },
    { "year": 1994, "name": "Christian de Portzamparc", "country": "France", "note": "Open-block urban planning; the Cité de la Musique." },
    { "year": 1995, "name": "Tadao Ando", "country": "Japan", "note": "Self-taught. Concrete and light. The Church of the Light." },
    { "year": 1996, "name": "Rafael Moneo", "country": "Spain", "note": "Roman archaeology museum, Mérida. Material as historical argument." },
    { "year": 1997, "name": "Sverre Fehn", "country": "Norway", "note": "Nordic vernacular distilled. The Hedmark Museum." },
    { "year": 1998, "name": "Renzo Piano", "country": "Italy", "note": "Post-Pompidou museum architect. Beyeler Foundation, The Shard." },
    { "year": 1999, "name": "Norman Foster", "country": "United Kingdom", "note": "High-tech corporate; Hong Kong HSBC building, Apple Park." },
    { "year": 2000, "name": "Rem Koolhaas", "country": "Netherlands", "note": "OMA founder. Programmatic excess. Delirious New York as method." },
    { "year": 2001, "name": "Jacques Herzog & Pierre de Meuron", "country": "Switzerland", "note": "Tate Modern, Bird's Nest stadium. Surface materiality as program.", "shared": true },
    { "year": 2002, "name": "Glenn Murcutt", "country": "Australia", "note": "Single-architect practice; vernacular environmental restraint." },
    { "year": 2003, "name": "Jørn Utzon", "country": "Denmark", "note": "Sydney Opera House. The first proper Pritzker for an icon." },
    { "year": 2004, "name": "Zaha Hadid", "country": "United Kingdom / Iraq", "note": "First woman to win. Deconstructivist forms, parametric futurism." },
    { "year": 2005, "name": "Thom Mayne", "country": "United States", "note": "Morphosis founder. Layered fragmentation as institutional language." },
    { "year": 2006, "name": "Paulo Mendes da Rocha", "country": "Brazil", "note": "São Paulo brutalist; concrete civic restraint, MuBE museum." },
    { "year": 2007, "name": "Richard Rogers", "country": "United Kingdom", "note": "Centre Pompidou (with Piano); high-tech inside-out architecture." },
    { "year": 2008, "name": "Jean Nouvel", "country": "France", "note": "Institut du Monde Arabe, Louvre Abu Dhabi. Light as facade material." },
    { "year": 2009, "name": "Peter Zumthor", "country": "Switzerland", "note": "Therme Vals. Atmospheric architecture; site-specific materiality." },
    { "year": 2010, "name": "Kazuyo Sejima & Ryue Nishizawa", "country": "Japan", "note": "SANAA founders. White minimalism, transparency, light.", "shared": true },
    { "year": 2011, "name": "Eduardo Souto de Moura", "country": "Portugal", "note": "Stone simplicity in northern Portugal; the Braga Stadium." },
    { "year": 2012, "name": "Wang Shu", "country": "China", "note": "First Chinese laureate. Reclaimed tile in Ningbo, vernacular modernity." },
    { "year": 2013, "name": "Toyo Ito", "country": "Japan", "note": "Sendai Mediatheque. Algorithmic curves; the fluid library." },
    { "year": 2014, "name": "Shigeru Ban", "country": "Japan", "note": "Paper tube humanitarian shelters; post-disaster architecture as discipline." },
    { "year": 2015, "name": "Frei Otto", "country": "Germany", "note": "Tensile structures pioneer. Munich Olympic roof. Awarded posthumously." },
    { "year": 2016, "name": "Alejandro Aravena", "country": "Chile", "note": "ELEMENTAL's half-built social housing; the participatory turn." },
    { "year": 2017, "name": "Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem & Ramon Vilalta", "country": "Spain", "note": "RCR Arquitectes (Catalonia). The first three-person laureate cohort.", "shared": true },
    { "year": 2018, "name": "Balkrishna Doshi", "country": "India", "note": "First Indian laureate. Ahmedabad-based; Aranya housing as model." },
    { "year": 2019, "name": "Arata Isozaki", "country": "Japan", "note": "Postmodern globalist; Palau Sant Jordi, MoCA Los Angeles." },
    { "year": 2020, "name": "Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara", "country": "Ireland", "note": "Grafton Architects. Civic-weight institutional buildings.", "shared": true },
    { "year": 2021, "name": "Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal", "country": "France", "note": "\"Never demolish.\" Preservation through transformation, Bordeaux 530.", "shared": true },
    { "year": 2022, "name": "Diébédo Francis Kéré", "country": "Burkina Faso / Germany", "note": "First African laureate. Clay vernacular, schools in Gando." },
    { "year": 2023, "name": "Sir David Chipperfield", "country": "United Kingdom", "note": "Restraint as method; Neues Museum Berlin reconstruction." },
    { "year": 2024, "name": "Riken Yamamoto", "country": "Japan", "note": "Communal threshold architecture; Saitama Prefectural University." },
    { "year": 2025, "name": "Liu Jiakun", "country": "China", "note": "Chengdu-based practice. Re-bricks of earthquake rubble. Second Chinese laureate." },
    { "year": 2026, "name": "Smiljan Radić Clarke", "country": "Chile", "note": "Stone, texture, narrative weight; the Mestizo restaurant, Serpentine 2014 pavilion." }
  ]
}