Friday 9 March 2018

who won Pritzker prize?

who won Pritzker prize?


Options

1) Balkrishna Doshi,

2)Balkrishna sen,

3)Balkrishna das,

4)Balkrishna De,


answer

1) Balkrishna Doshi,


Other details

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi is an Indian architect. He is considered to be an important figure of South Asian architecture and noted for his contributions to the evolution of architectural discourse in India.


He is the 45th Pritzker laureate and the first from India.

The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture."

Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored by the Hyatt Foundation.

It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes,and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture

The prize is said to be awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology."


the recipients receive US$100,000, a citation certificate, and since 1987, a bronze medallion

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