With the common purpose of acknowledging excellence in the field and promoting quality in the built environment, architectural prizes are having a heyday. In the decade of spectacle culture, architects have had an ever-growing mediatic presence, and

Adela García-Herrera   Parish Church, Marco de Canavezes Winners of the Pritzker Prize in 1989 and 1992 respectively, the American Frank Gehry and the Portuguese Álvaro Siza represent two forms of contemporary practice, diametrically opposed but with equal influence. Alth