![(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 29, 2014 Japanese architect Arata Isozaki poses before a press conference at the "City Life office Tower", a skyscraper that was under construction in Milan. Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has been awarded the Pritzker Prize, considered architecture's highest honor, for a lifetime of work that found global resonance while mining local traditions. "Isozaki is a pioneer in understanding that the need for architecture is both global and local -- that those two forces are part of a single challenge," the chair of the jury, US Justice Stephen Breyer, said as the prize was announced on March 5, 2019.
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Japanese architect Arata Isozaki been awarded the Pritzker for work that found global resonance while mining local traditions. AFP
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki been awarded the Pritzker for work that found global resonance while mining local traditions. AFP
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