Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta on Thursday became the first team of three to be selected for the prize.
Four others -- two architects, a structural technician and a designer -- were also sent to prison over the collapse of the apartment complex, which crumbled when a 6.4 magnitude quake struck. (Photo: AP)
In perhaps the clearest signal yet that the era of the solo celebrity architect is behind us, three friends who hung out a shingle in their Catalonian hometown, Olot, Spain, 30 years ago and never left or parted ways have won their profession’s highest honor: the Pritzker Prize, The New York Times reported.
Rafael Aranda, Carme Pigem and Ramon Vilalta on Thursday became the first team of three to be selected for the prize, which will be awarded in Tokyo on May 20. The architects are not widely known; they have not designed major public projects or worked much outside Spain.
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