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2003

The Pritzker Architecture Prize was established by The Hyatt

Foundation in 1979 to honor annually a living architect whose built

work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision

and commitment which has produced consistent and significant

contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art

of architecture.

An international panel of jurors reviews nominations from all

nations, selecting one living architect each year. Seven Laureates

have been chosen from the United States, and the year 2003 marked

the twentieth to be chosen from other countries around the world.

The bronze medallion presented to each Laureate is based on designs of Louis Sullivan, famed Chicago

architect generally acknowledged as the father of the skyscraper. Shown on the cover is one side with the name

of the prize and space in the center for the Laureate's name. On the reverse, shown above, three words are

inscribed, “firmness, commodity and delight,” The Latin words, “firmitas, utilitas, venustas” were originally

set down nearly 2000 years ago by Marcus Vitruvius in his Ten Books on Architecture dedicated to the Roman

Emperor Augustus. In 1624, when Henry Wotton was England's first Ambassador to Venice, he translated

the words for his work, The Elements of Architecture, to read: “The end is to build well. Well building hath three

conditions: commodity, firmness and delight.”

THE

PRITZKER

ARCHITECTURE PRIZE

2003

PRESENTED TO

JØRN UTZON

SPONSORED BY

THE HYATT FOUNDATION

T HE J URY

C HAIRMAN

The Lord Rothschild

Former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, National Gallery

Former Chairman, National Heritage Memorial Fund

London, England

Giovanni Agnelli*

Chairman Emeritus, Fiat

Torino, Italy

Frank O. Gehry

Architect and Pritzker Laureate 1989

Los Angeles, Califrornia

Ada Louise Huxtable

Author and Architectural Critic

New York, New York

Carlos Jimenez

Professor, Rice University School of Architecture

Principal, Carlos Jimenez Studio

Houston, Texas

Jorge Silvetti

Professor, Department of Architecture

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Cambridge, Massachusetts

E XECUTIVE D IRECTOR

Bill Lacy, FAIA

Architect and Professional Consultant

*DECEASED

J URY C ITATION

Jørn Utzon is an architect whose roots extend back into

history touching on the Mayan, Chinese, Japanese and Islamic

cultures, and many others, including his own Scandinavian

legacies. He combines these more ancient heritages with his own

balanced discipline, a sense of architecture as art, and natural

instinct for organic structures related to site conditions.

The range of his projects is vast, from the sculptural

abstraction of the Sydney Opera House to handsome, humane

housing; a church that remains a masterwork with its remarkably

lyrical ceilings; as well as monumental public buildings for

government and commerce.

His housing is designed to provide not only privacy for its

inhabitants, but pleasant views of the landscape, and flexibility

for individual pursuits — in short, designed with people in mind.

There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his

masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th

century, an image of great beauty that has become known

throughout the world — a symbol for not only a city, but a whole

country and continent.

“I like to be on the edge of the possible,” is something Jørn

Utzon has said. His work shows the world that he has been there

and beyond — he proves that the marvelous and seemingly

impossible in architecture can be achieved. He has always been

ahead of his time. He rightly joins the handful of Modernists who

have shaped the past century with buildings of timeless and

enduring quality.

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