Of all the awards related to architecture, the most prestigious is the Pritzker Prize. Established in 1979 by Jay and Cindy Pritzker, the cash ($100,000) prize is funded by the Pritzkers’ Hyatt Hotel Foundation and given annually to honor a body of work by a living architect. Candidates are selected through a process modeled after the Nobel Prize, with secret voting by an international panel of judges. The awards ceremony is held at architecturally significant sites around the world. Following is the list of the Pritzker Prize winners:
| 1979: Philip Johnson, United States | 1990: Aldo Rossi, Italy | 2001: Jacques Herzog and Pierre De Meuron, Switzerland |
| 1980: Luis Barragan, Mexico | 1991: Robert Venturi, United States | 2002: Glenn Murcutt, Australia |
| 1981: James Stirling, Great Britain | 1992: Alvaro Siza, Portugal | 2003: Jern Utzon, Denmark |
| 1982: Kevin Roche, United States | 1993: Fumihiko Maki, Japan | 2004: Zaha Hadid, Iraq / Great Britain |
| 1983: I.M. Pei, United States | 1994: Christian de Portzamparc, France | 2005: Thom Mayne, United States |
| 1984: Richard Meier, United States | 1995: Tadao Ando, Japan | 2006: Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Brazil |
| 1985: Hans Hollein, Austria | 1996: Rafael Moneo, Spain | 2007: Richard Rogers, United Kingdom |
| 1986: Gottfried Boehm, Germany | 1997: Sverre Fehn, Norway | 2008: Jean Nouvel, France |
| 1987: Kenzo Tange, Japan | 1998: Renzo Piano, Italy | 2009: Peter Zumthor, Switzerland |
| 1988: Gordon Bunshaft, United States, and Oscar Neimeyer, Brazil | 1999: Norman Foster, Great Britain | 2010: Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Japan |
| 1989: Frank Gehry, United States | 2000: Rem Koolhaas, Netherlands |
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