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Lacaton and Vassal win 2021 Pritzker Prize

By 2021-03-16T14:00:00

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal_Photo courtesy of Laurent Chalet

Source: Laurent Chalet

French architects have built a reputation for imaginative reuse

Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal are the winners of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize.

The decision to give architecture’s biggest prize to the French duo, who founded Lacaton & Vassal in 1987, was announced by Tom Pritzker, chair of sponsor the Hyatt Foundation, this afternoon.

The pair are best known for their large-scale housing and cultural projects which always focus on reuse and other principles of sustainability.

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