The Pritzkers were renowned in Chicago for their philanthropy and the celebrated Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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Lord Foster may have won the prestigious Pritzker architecture prize but he is not a Muslim.

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C. by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize.

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Born in Baghdad and the first woman to achieve the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture (awarded to her in 2004 on a stage built for Catherine the Great), Hadid is accustomed to bucking the status quo.

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Mr Moneo, who has already built some notable museums in Madrid, Merida and Stockholm, was last year awarded the Pritzker award, architecture's Nobel prize.

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Many winners of the Pritzker Prize the most prestigious award in architecture have designed a number of these new theaters, receiving accolades for their work.

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She said the Pritzker Prize was based on the fallacy that great architecture was the work of a "single lone male genius" at the expense of collaborative work.

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Zaha Hadid, the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize, has been called the Lady Gaga of architecture, a wild woman who makes wild things.

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