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Los Angeles-Rem Koolhaas, a 56-year old architect from the Netherlands has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate for the year 2000.
"It seems fitting that as we begin a new millennium, the jury should choose an architect that seems so in tune with the future, [as] Koolhaas has been called a prophet of a new modern architecture," said Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, sponsors of this annual event in its 23rd year.
The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor a living architect who has demonstrated talent, vision, and commitment in his/her built work and had produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...