Editing Pritzker Architecture Prize (section)

== Criticism ==
In 2013, the student organization "Women in Design" at the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design]] started a petition arguing [[Denise Scott Brown]] should receive joint recognition with her partner, [[Robert Venturi]], who won the award in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-09-18|title=Student Activism: Women in Design|url=https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2013/09/student-activism-women-in-design-wid/|access-date=2021-03-18|website=Harvard Graduate School of Design|language=en-US}}</ref> The petition, according to ''[[The New York Times]]'', "reignited long-simmering tensions in the architectural world over whether women have been consistently denied the standing they deserve in a field whose most prestigious award was not given to a woman until 2004, when [[Zaha Hadid]] won".<ref>{{Cite news| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/arts/design/bid-for-pritzker-prize-to-acknowledge-denise-scott-brown.html?ref=design| work = The New York Times| title = Partner Without the Prize| date = April 17, 2013| access-date = April 18, 2013| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130418113111/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/18/arts/design/bid-for-pritzker-prize-to-acknowledge-denise-scott-brown.html?ref=design| archive-date = April 18, 2013| last1 = Pogrebin| first1 = Robin}}</ref> Scott Brown told [[CNN]] that "as a woman, she had felt excluded by the elite of architecture throughout her career," and that "the Pritzker Prize was based on the fallacy that great architecture was the work of a 'single lone male genius' at the expense of collaborative work."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/01/business/denise-scott-brown-pritzker-prize |title=Denise Scott Brown: Architecture favors 'lone male genius' over women |publisher=CNN |author=Catriona Davies |date=May 29, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619201238/http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/01/business/denise-scott-brown-pritzker-prize |archive-date=June 19, 2013 }}</ref> Responding to the petition, the 2013 prize jury said that it cannot revisit the decisions of past juries, either in the case of Scott Brown or that of [[Lu Wenyu]], whose husband [[Wang Shu]] won in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/pritzker-architecture-prize-committee-refuses-to-honor-denise-scott-brown.aspx | publisher = architectmagazine.com | title = Pritzker Architecture Prize Committee Denies Honors for Denise Scott Brown | date = June 14, 2013 | access-date = June 18, 2013 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130618105930/http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/pritzker-architecture-prize-committee-refuses-to-honor-denise-scott-brown.aspx | archive-date = June 18, 2013 }}</ref> The 2020 Pritzker jury said in its citation awarding the prize to [[Yvonne Farrell]] and [[Shelley McNamara]] – making them the fourth and fifth women to ever be awarded the prize – that they were, "pioneers in a field that has traditionally been and still is a male-dominated profession [and] beacons to others as they forge their exemplary professional path."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Noveck |first=Jocelyn |url=https://apnews.com/e4f2f7f6867aed5302bea629e28522fc |title=Irish architects Farrell, McNamara win Pritzker Prize |date=March 3, 2020 |work=Associated Press |access-date=March 4, 2020}}</ref>