ArchDaily readers choose who should win the 2024 Pritzker Prize

As part of our annual tradition, we asked our readers Who Are They? Should Winning the 2024 Pritzker Prize, the most distinguished award in architecture.

The Pritzker Prize, established by Jay Pritzker and administered by the Hyatt Foundation in the United States, honors living architects, regardless of their nationality, whose architectural contribution has produced “consistent and significant contributions to humanity through the art of architecture.”

The first winner of the Pritzker Prize was American architect Philip Johnson in 1979. Since then, architects from 20 countries have received the prize, including only six female architects: the late Zaha Hadid (2004), Kazuyo Sejima (2010, with Ryo Nishizawa), Carme Pigem (2017, with Ramon Villalta and Rafael Aranda), Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara (2020), and Anne Lacaton (2021, with Jean-Philippe Vassal).

According to our readers who chose from more than 50 options, Alberto Campo Baeza Should Winning the 2024 Pritzker Prize:

1. Alberto Campo Baeza (7.7%)

2.Kengo Kuma (7.3%)

3. Steven Holl (6.6%)

4. Bjarke Engels (5.6%)

5. Solano Benitez (5.2%)

6. Marina Tabassum (4.9%)

7. MVRDV (4.3%)

8. Smiljan Radic (4.2%)

9. Santiago Calatrava (4.2%)

10. Tatiana Bilbao (3.6%)

In addition, architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Manuel Aires Mateus + Francisco Aires Mateos, Su Fujimoto, Jin Zhang, Frida Escobedo, and Moshe Safdie received more than 2% of the votes.

Find out who our readers predicted would be the winners of previous editions of the Pritzker Prize poll in 2023, 2022 and 2021.

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