Editing Pritzker Architecture Prize (section)

{{short description|International architecture prize}}
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{{Infobox award
| name = Pritzker Architecture Prize
| current_awards = Liu Jiakun
| image = Medal of Pritzker Architecture Prize (front).gif
| caption = Medal of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
| awarded_for = A career of achievement in the art of [[architecture]]
| reward = US$100,000
| sponsor = Hyatt Foundation
| presenter = 
| country = 
| year = {{Start date and age|1979}}
| website = {{URL|www.pritzkerprize.com}}
}}

The '''Pritzker Architecture Prize''' is an international award presented annually "to honor a living [[architect]] or architects 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."  Founded in 1979 by [[Jay Pritzker|Jay A. Pritzker]] and his wife Cindy, the award is funded by the [[Pritzker family]] and sponsored by the [[Hyatt]] Foundation. It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes, and is often [[List of prizes known as the Nobel or the highest honors of a field|referred to as the Nobel Prize of]] architecture.<ref name=proc/><ref name=eightyeight>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/arts/architecture-view-what-pritzker-winners-tell-us-about-the-prize.html|title=Architecture View; What Pritzker Winners Tell Us About the Prize|work=The New York Times|access-date=June 26, 2009|date=May 28, 1988|first=Paul|last=Goldberger|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531221427/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/29/arts/architecture-view-what-pritzker-winners-tell-us-about-the-prize.html|archive-date=May 31, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-13720279|title=Riverside Museum architect visits 'sophisticated shed'|last=McLean|first=Pauline|work=BBC News|date=June 9, 2011|access-date=May 19, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204205614/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-13720279|archive-date=December 4, 2011}}</ref><ref name=eighty/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7996295.stm|title=Swiss architect wins top honour|last=Pollard|first=Lawrence|work=BBC News|date=April 13, 2009|access-date=May 19, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712053710/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7996295.stm|archive-date=July 12, 2011}}</ref>