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As prizes in all realms proliferate, the outcomes -- who wins an Oscar or a Pulitzer -- seem evermore capricious and sentimental. Not, however, in the case of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's Nobel equivalent. The Pritzker, awarded since 1979, has earned an unsurpassed reputation for rigor, good sense and...
Like Philip Johnson, the first Pritzker winner, Rossi was born into a well- to-do family and spent a decade as an architectural chronicler before beginning to build in earnest. For most of his career, Rossi's international cult status derived mainly from his writing (The Architecture of the City...
The years between those two very different projects saw Rossi's transformation from cult hero to blue-chip eminence grise. His floating 250- seat Teatro del Mondo, for the 1980 Venice Biennale, captured the imagination of architects around the world. In 1982 The Architecture of the City finally came out...
Over the past decade, Rossi has roamed the U.S. several times. He says he relishes "the richness of the countryside and the materials." His first U.S. buildings, finished last year, are two developer-constructed houses in, of all places, the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. The clapboard houses, unmistakably American, prove...
DESIGN: A cult hero wins the top architecture award