Architecture
- 2008 — Richard Meier
- 2002 — Frank O. Gehry
- 1996 — Philip Johnson
- 1990 — Kevin Roche
- 1984 — Gordon Bunshaft
- 1979 — I. M. Pei
- 1973 — Louis I. Kahn
- 1968 — R. Buckminster Fuller
- 1963 — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- 1958 — Henry R. Shepley
- 1953 — Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1949 — Frederick Law Olmsted
- 1940 — William Adams Delano
- 1930 — Charles Adams Platt
- 1921 — Cass Gilbert
- 1912 — William Rutherford Mead
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Famous quotes containing the word architecture:
“Polarized light showed the secret architecture of bodies; and when the second-sight of the mind is opened, now one color or form or gesture, and now another, has a pungency, as if a more interior ray had been emitted, disclosing its deep holdings in the frame of things.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)
“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)