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Pritzker Architecture Prize Established
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In 1979 the Pritzker family of Chicago, through the Hyatt Foundation, established an annual international prize for a living architect whose built work shows talent, vision and commitment. Philip Johnson was the first laureate, and the prize quickly became the profession's highest honor, spoken of as architecture's Nobel.
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Philip Johnson was the Pritzker Architecture Prize's first laureate in 1979.
In 2004 she became the prize's first woman laureate.
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