The independent jury of experts ranges from five to nine members. Jury members serve for multiple years to assure a balance between past and new members and are entrusted with selecting the laureate each year. No members of the Pritzker family or outside observers are present during jury deliberations which usually take place during the first months of the calendar year. The jury members are recognized professionals in their own fields of architecture, business, education, publishing, and culture.
2011 Jury Members
Lord Peter Palumbo, 2005-present (Chair)
Alejandro Aravena, 2009-present
Carlos Jimenez, 2001-present
Glenn Murcutt, 2010-present
Juhani Pallasmaa, 2009-present
Renzo Piano, 2006-present
Karen Stein, 2004-present
Martha Thorne, 2005-present (Executive Director)
Past Jury Members
J. Carter Brown, 1979-2002 (Chair)
Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1979-1982
Author and Art Historian
Cesar Pelli, 1979-1982
Architect
Dean, School of Architecture, Yale University
Arata Isozaki, 1979-1984
Architect
Critic
J. Irwin Miller, 1979-1984
Chairman, Executive Committee, Cummins Engine Company, Inc.
Architectural Patron
Philip Johnson
, 1981-1985
Architect
1979 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
Thomas J. Watson Jr., 1982-1986
Chairman Emeritus, IBM Corporation
Kevin Roche
, 1983-1991
Architect
1982 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
Giovanni Agnelli, 1984-2003
Chairman, FIAT
Fumihiko Maki
, 1985-1988
Architect
Ricardo Legorreta, 1985-1993
Architect
Ada Louise Huxtable, 1987-2005
Author and Critic
Lord Rothschild, 1987-2004 (Chair, 2003-2004)
Chairman, Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Great Britain
Toshio Nakamura, 1991-1999
Editor-in-chief,
A+U
Frank O. Gehry
, 1993-1995, 2003-2006
Architect
Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate 1989
Charles Correa, 1993-1998
Architect
Jorge Silvetti, 1996-2004
Chairman, Department of Architecture,
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Balkrishna Doshi, 2005-2007
Architect and Planner
Professor of Architecture
Victoria Newhouse, 2005-2008
Architectural Historian and Author
Founder and Director of the Architectural History Foundation
Shigeru Ban, 2006-2009
Architect
Professor of Architecture
Rolf Fehlbaum, 2004-2010
Chairman, Vitra
Carleton Smith, 1979-1984 (Secretary to the Jury)
Chairman, International Awards Foundation
Arthur Drexler, 1979-1986 (Consultant to the Jury)
Director, Architecture and Design,
Museum of Modern Art New York
Brendan Gill, 1985-1987 (Secretary to the Jury)
Writer and Critic,
The New Yorker
Stuart Wrede, 1987-1988 (Acting Consultant to the Jury)
Acting Director, Architecture and Design,
Museum of Modern Art New York
Bill N. Lacy, 1988-2005 (Executive Director)
President, State University of New York at Purchase
Architect