Sou Fujimoto Receives Marcus Prize

John Hill
8. July 2013
Photo: David Vintiner, courtesy of Serpentine Gallery

It's looking like 2013 is a very good year for Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. His Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is on display in London's Kensington Gardens until mid-October. Exhibitions in Japan, Switzerland, and elsewhere are documenting his growing and increasingly recognizable body of work. And it has been announced the he is the recipient of the 2013 Marcus Prize, given every two years to an emerging architect by Milwaukee's Marcus Corporation Foundation. The prize may not be as well known as the Pritzker Prize, but it carries the same purse: $100,000. As part of his prize, he will travel to Milwaukee a handful times over the course of a semester to work with graduate students in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Photo: Iwan Baan
Fujimoto joins the small but illustrious group of former Marcus Prize winners:

2011 – Diébédo Francis Kéré
2010 - Alejandro Aravena
2007 - Frank Barkow, Barkow Leibinger
2005 - Winy Maas, MVRDV

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