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Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
The decision to give architecture’s biggest prize to the French duo, who founded Lacaton & Vassal in 1987, was announced by Tom Pritzker, chair of sponsor the Hyatt Foundation, this afternoon.
Source: Laurent Chalet
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
The pair are best known for their large-scale housing and cultural projects which always focus on reuse and other principles of sustainability.
“By prioritising the enrichment of human life through a lens of generosity and freedom of use, they are able to benefit the individual socially, ecologically and economically, aiding the evolution of a city,” said today’s statement.