| 2001 Laureate Announcement (3130 words) |
 | The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect (or architects) whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. |
| The field of architecture was chosen by the Pritzker family because of their keen interest in building due to their involvement with developing the Hyatt Hotels around the world; also because architecture was a creative endeavor not included in the Nobel Prizes. |
| The 2001 presentation on May 7 of the $100,000 Pritzker Architecture Prize to Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron was held at Jefferson's architectural masterpiece, Monticello, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. |
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