So a change of direction for a major architectural award which over recent years has tended to favour the celebrities – usually big practices with effective PR – which crowd the journals. Instead this year honesty, elegance and a professional integrity is rewarded, in an architect who set out in the footsteps of Mies and who was defined by the jury as “an innovative architectural technician who is capable of turning his sensitivity to the environment and to locality into forthright, totally honest, non-showy works of art”.
Murcutt, the first Australian to be awarded the Pritzker prize will collect the award – which totals 100 000 dollars – in Rome in the Campidoglio on 29 May.




Technology meets aesthetics, with Cordivari
With their rhythmically textured external surfaces, the Run and Seven Lines fan coils become natural elements in the landscape of contemporary interiors.