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Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas 1944-, Dutch architect, b. Rotterdam. He began his career as a journalist and screenwriter, moving to London in the late 1960s to study architecture. Koolhaas is widely viewed as the most intellectually challenging, audacious, and influential architectural thinker of his generation;... Read more |
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Christian de Portzamparc
Christian de Portzamparc In 1994, Christian de Portzamparc (born 1944) became the first French architect to receive the prestigious Pritzker Prize, architecture's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. This honor placed Portzamparc's name among the ranks of some of the world's most renowned practitioners... Read more |
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Rudolf Mossbauer
Rudolf Mössbauer Nobel Prize-winning physicist Rudolf M Read more |
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Carlos Romulo
Carlos P. Rómulo Carlos P. Romulo (1899-1985) was an author and the foremost diplomat of the Philippines. He was the only Filipino journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize and... Read more |
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Richard Willstatter
Richard Willstätter A Nobel Prize winning chemist, Richard Willst Read more |
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Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi 1925-, American architect, b. Philadelphia. In his writings, Venturi inveighed against the banality of modern architecture in the postwar period. He argued instead for a more inclusive, contextual approach to design that heralded the postmodern era in architecture. Among his early... Read more |
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Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi , 1931-97, Italian architectb. Milan; grad. Milan Polytechnic (1959). He began working for the design magazine Casabella-Continuità in 1954 and became its editor a decade later. His book The Architecture of the City (1966, tr. 1982) is a classic of modern architectural theory.... Read more |
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Sir James Frazer Stirling
Sir James Frazer Stirling 1926-92, British architect, b. Glasgow, grad. Univ. of Liverpool school of architecture (1950). Settling in London, Stirling worked in partnership (1956-63) with James Gowan, and became known for straightforward and functional modernist public buildings executed mainly in... Read more |
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen , 1908-91, American physicist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin (B.S. 1928, M.S. 1929), Ph.D. Princeton, 1936. He was a research physicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1945 to 1951. In 1951 he became professor of electrical engineering and physics at the Univ. of... Read more |
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Man Booker Prize
Man Booker Prize an annual prize of £50,000 (originally £20,000 ) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish, or Commonwealth writer. Great Britain's premier literary award, it was originally known as the Booker Prize and in 1969 was underwritten by the British... Read more |
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Profile: Rem Koolhaas wins this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize
...00-00-0000 Profile: Rem Koolhaas wins this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize Host: BOB EDWARDS Time...winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize has ... |
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Rem Koolhaas, Master Planner; Dutch Architect Wins the Pritzker Prize
Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch architect and theorist...chosen to receive the 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The $100,000 award, architecture...presented in Jerusalem on May 29. Koolhaas, 56, was praised by the ... |
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Rem Koolhaas, designer of IIT center, wins Pritzker
...Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, designer of...won the 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The 56-year...singled out by the Pritzker jury for his...configurations." Koolhaas, a Harvard University...the laureates ... |
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Hadid Is First Woman To Win Pritzker Prize
...receive the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Hadid, 53...of the Nobel Prizes. She will be...the $100,000 prize May 31 in St...seven-member Pritzker jury enthused...Dutch architect Rem ... |
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Dutch Architect Wins Pritzker
...Online 04-17-2000 Dutch Architect Wins Pritzker LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch architect known for futuristic...named this year's recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. ... |
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Pritzker preview.(The 1996 Pritzker Architecture Prize)
...annual Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest...it, and the Pritzker jury certainly...United States, Rem Koolhaas of the Netherlands...Winning the Pritzker is, of course...1986. Rem ... |
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Japanese architects win Pritzker prize
...have won the 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize's jury...join Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Renzo Piano and last...architecture." The Pritzker jury of architects...projects mentioned ... |
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Architect Joern Utzon Wins Pritzker Prize
...2003 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession...prestigious award. The Pritzker jury singled out...Architect and Pritzker juror Frank Gehry...winners of the Pritzker Prize, sponsored...Renzo Piano and ... |
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Joern Utzon, architect of Sydney Opera House, wins prestigious Pritzker Prize
...2003 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the profession...prestigious award. The Pritzker jury singled out...Architect and Pritzker juror Frank Gehry...winners of the Pritzker Prize, sponsored...Renzo Piano and ... |
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Dutch maverick wins architectural award.(Features)(Ideas)
Rem Koolhaas of the Netherlands received the Pritzker Architectural Prize, architecture's highest honor...Among his peers, Mr. Koolhaas is regarded as a visionary...contradictions." Thomas Pritzker, president ... |
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