Glenn Murcutt wins 2021 Praemium Imperiale for architecture
Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has been named the Praemium Imperiale architecture laureate, an honour awarded annually by the Japan Art Association.
Murcutt, who was described in the citation as an "architect ahead of his time", became the first Australian to win the Praemium Imperiale.
Awarded annually, the global arts prize recognises laureates in "fields of achievement not covered by the Nobel Prizes", with winners chosen in architecture, painting, music and sculpture this year all r
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