Explore 594 illustrated award cases: actual buildings and architectural honours, with the programme, year and official evidence stated separately.
Built-project awards and career honours recognise different subjects. Award year, building completion and photography date are distinct; a personal honour does not transfer to every building by its recipient. Photographs open at a larger size with creator and licence references.
The 1979 Pritzker Architecture Prize recipient record names Philip Johnson. Philip Johnson worked as a client, critic, author, historian and museum director before entering architectural practice. His Glass House in New Canaan was designed as his master's thesis and completed in 1949. He later collaborated with Mies van der Rohe on New York's Seagram Building and worked with John Burgee.
Philip Johnson, recipient of 1979 Pritzker Architecture Prize. This is a portrait, not a photograph of the award ceremony.
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