morphius, http://www.archidose.org/Jul01/070201b.html the company that made the grad student housing on spadina in toronto---its an amazing, joyus, chaotic and alive bulding that manages to intergrate into the neighbourhood in a way most superstars refuse to---(cf normon fosters future cockwaving nearby)
http://archidose.blogspot.com/2005/03/pritzker-countdown.html
so it made me really happy that , who heads the company won it, and that a collective won--the pritzker is one of the more adventourus prizes, and tends to use its power to push or prod architechture in a certain direction--like hadid last year (archidose is usually pretty good about this, but his accusation that hadid win smells of pc rankles--i wrote his about it:

But the Pritzker Prizes tend to be a bit unpredictable - though last year's choice had a "p.c." smell to it - so it's anybody's guess who will win.

This is bullshit--it wasn't because zaha hadid was a woman--if anything it was a discussion of an artchitechts promience over the client, and the lack of adventorous clients. It was an attempt to make the theoritiical and conceptual ideas of architechture as impt as the actual buildings. It also let her build things--and consdering how brilliant she is, how well the buildings work practically, asethetically and intellecutally--it was a brave and proper choice.its disiengious to assume it was because of race and gender. )

cant spell, but you know that.