“The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. (Luis Barragán, 1980)”

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“I believe that the time has come for us to take back our closeness to nature, to open our humdrum city grids to nature’s abundance, and to rebuild a more vibrant and human environment. I urge all of us architects to work together to send out a new message to the next century, one that is as bright and full of hope as the one transmitted by our predecessors a century ago. In order for this to happen, we architects must transform ourselves. Let us not fixate on minor differences, but rather work together to find a message for the next generation that we can all share.”

—Toyo Ito - Prtizker Prize Acceptance Speech, May 29th, 2013

No Retroactive Prize for Denise Scott Brown, Pritzker Jury Says, but She Remains Eligible for the Award in the Future - News - Architectural Record

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Denise Scott Brown will not receive a retroactive Pritzker Prize, said the chair of the award jury, Lord Peter Palumbo, in a letter to the two Harvard Graduate students behind a petition to have her honored alongside her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, who won the prize in 1991.

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