Question

Glenn Murcutt of Australia was the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient. He was the first Australian to win the prize and one of many winners from an English-speaking country since the first prize was awarded to Philip Johnson in 1979. Twice the award has gone to native Spanish speakers (in 1980 and 1996) and twice to native Portuguese speakers (1988 and 1992). Who were these four architects?

Answer

Luis Barragan of Mexico (1980) and Rafael Moneo of Spain (1996) are the Spanish-speaking winners of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil (1988 co-recipient with Gordon Bunshaft of the United States) and Alvaro Siza of Portugal (1992) are the Portuguese-speaking winners. (In winning in 2002, Glenn Murcutt was credited with developing an identifiable modern residential vernacular for Australia. He also played a major role in advocating and developing environmentally conscious design in his home country.)