tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post9152185913772783062..comments2024-02-15T06:40:00.335+01:00Comments on NOTES ON BECOMING A FAMOUS ARCHITECT: 81. The little Pritzker Committee that Almost CouldConrad Newelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13361919565513238957noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-3612575947264220742013-03-01T04:02:35.028+01:002013-03-01T04:02:35.028+01:00You cannot blame this entirely on the Pritzker fou...You cannot blame this entirely on the Pritzker foundation. Wang Shu has been promoting himself for many years now as "Wang Shu", not as "Wang Shu-one half of Amateur Architecture Studio along with Lu Wenyu". I do not even know what Lu Wenyu looks like. She is never in any publicity photos or videos with him. He promotes himself as "Wang Shu-the leader of Amateur Architecture Studio". Who knows why? Maybe Wang Shu really is responsible for more of the work produced by their office, therefore more worthy of the prize. Or maybe Lu Wenyu is just shy and doesn't want to deal with the publicity the way Wang has to, so she stays out of it and lets him get all the glory. Of course Wang is going to get the prize as a solo entity; prior to winning the prize he was known internationally simply as Wang Shu with little to no mention of his wife. SANAA has always promoted themselves as a team. They show up together for publicity and lectures. They have separate offices but the work produced by Sejima's or Ryue's solo offices is not nearly as influential as the work produced by SANAA. Give me a break. Yes the Pritzker Jury is biased but the architects themselves are promoting themselves in a certain way as well and you do not even touch upon this fact in your article. You write well and you give very useful facts, but you yourself are biased a well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-59975496653145398672012-05-29T05:42:18.768+02:002012-05-29T05:42:18.768+02:00Why doesn't the Nobel Prize organization final...Why doesn't the Nobel Prize organization finally grant a prize for architects so we can stop calling the pritzker the "Nobel of Architecture" already?! Never in my life will I be able to understand how Philip Johnson got any award for architecture, non the less the "Nobel" of architecture. The people who grant the Pritzker can just suck it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-68233213752831679182012-03-09T00:05:54.193+01:002012-03-09T00:05:54.193+01:00Excellent! I´m an architect, my husband too, we´ve...Excellent! I´m an architect, my husband too, we´ve been working together since 1987 :) Thank you!Myriam B. Mahiqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04877775531588362818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-22462954865864275852012-02-29T18:29:58.326+01:002012-02-29T18:29:58.326+01:00I would like you to tell us who are those women yo...I would like you to tell us who are those women you would give the Pritzker Prize to. I am very curious. By the way, i read some stuff about "famous women" around the world or "women with power" and most of the analysis was: "we, women, we do what we think is right, we care about what our job is about (politics, architecture, art...) and we are always criticizing ourselves and in permanent doubt, and find our lives quite fulfilling this way. While men care more about all the fuss, the spotlights, the richness and the pretty cars." That is very "cliché", yup I agree, but I definitely think there is some truth in it and the answer maybe is: their women works as architects are maybe worth the Pritzker, but maybe they do not care :)Gudulehttp://gudule-a-shanghai.over-blog.com/noreply@blogger.com