So why is the Pritzker Prize awarded to just one person?  In this piece from Slate online, Witold Rybczynski discusses the phenomenon behind the so-called “Nobel Prize” for architecture and how it differs from the hard sciences and literature awards in that a successful architecture project is a team effort and not solely the work of one single architectural mind.  It is a very interesting way to look at these awards and how they fit into this business of many different parts all working to one common goal.

This entry was posted on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 10:41 am and is filed under Applied Sciences.