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Pritzker

Architecture

Prize

2002

G LENN M URCUTT

The

The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established by The Hyatt

Foundation in 1979 to honor annually a living architect 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

An international panel of jurors reviews nominations from all

nations, selecting one living architect each year. Seven Laureates

have been chosen from the United States, and the year 2002 marked

the nineteenth to be chosen from other countries around the world.

The bronze medallion presented to each Laureate is based on designes of Louis Sullivan, famed Chicago

architect generally acknowledged as the father of the skyscraper. Shown on the cover is one side with the name

of theprize and space in the center for the Laureate’s name. On the reverse, shown above, three words are

inscribed, “firmness, commodity and delight.” The Latin words, “firmitas, utilitas, venustas” were originally

set down nearly 2000 years ago by Marcus Vitruvius in his Ten Books on Architecture dedicated to the Roman

Emperor Augustus. In 1624, when Henry Wotton was England’s first Ambassador to Venice, he translated

the words for his work, The Elements of Architecture, to read: “The end is to build well. Well building hath three

conditions: commodity, firmness and delight.”

THE

PRITZKER

ARCHITECTURE PRIZE

2002

PRESENTED TO

GLENN MARCUS MURCUTT

SPONSORED BY

THE HYATT FOUNDATION

T HE J URY

C HAIRMAN

J. Carter Brown

Director Emeritus, National Gallery of Art

Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts

Washington, D.C.

Giovanni Agnelli

Chairman, Fiat

Torino, Italy

Ada Louise Huxtable

Author and Architectural Critic

New York, New York

Carlos Jimenez

Professor, Rice University School of Architecture

Principal, Carlos Jimenez Studio

Houston, Texas

The Lord Rothschild

Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery

Former Chairman, National Heritage Memorial Fund

London, England

Jorge Silvetti

Chairman, Department of Architecture

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Cambridge, Massachusetts

E XECUTIVE D IRECTOR

Bill Lacy

Professor, State University of New York at Purchase

Purchase, New York

J URY C ITATION

Glenn Murcutt is a modernist, a naturalist, an environmentalist,

a humanist, an economist and ecologist encompassing all of these

distinguished qualities in his practice as a dedicated architect who

works alone from concept to realization of his projects in his

native Australia. Although his works have sometimes been

described as a synthesis of Mies van der Rohe and the native

Australian wool shed, his many satisfied clients and the scores

more who are waiting in line for his services are endorsement

enough that his houses are unique, satisfying solutions.

Generally, he eschews large projects which would require him

to expand his practice, and give up the personal attention to

detail that he can now give to each and every project. His is an

architecture of place, architecture that responds to the landscape

and to the climate.

His houses are fine tuned to the land and the weather. He uses

a variety of materials, from metal to wood to glass, stone, brick and

concrete — always selected with a consciousness of the amount of

energy it took to produce the materials in the first place. He uses

light, water, wind, the sun, the moon in working out the details of

how a house will work — how it will respond to its environment.

His structures are said to float above the landscape, or in the

words of the Aboriginal people of Western Australia that he is

fond of quoting, they “touch the earth lightly.” Glenn Murcutt’s

structures augment their significance at each stage of inquiry.

One of Murcutt’s favorite quotations from Henry David

Thoreau, who was also a favorite of his father, “Since most of us

spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is

to carry them out extraordinarily well.” With the awarding of the

2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the jury finds that Glenn Murcutt

is more than living up to that adage.

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