Denise Scott Brown will not receive a retroactive Pritzker Prize, said the chair of the award's jury, Lord Peter Palumbo, in a letter released today. The letter is addressed to the two Harvard Graduate students behind a petition to have Scott Brown honored alongside her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, who won the prize in 1991. “A later jury cannot re-open, or second guess the work of an earlier jury, and none has ever done so,” he wrote on behalf of the nine-member body.
Palumbo’s letter left open the possibility that Scott Brown could win the prize in the future. “Let us assure you, however, that Ms. Scott Brown remains eligible for the Pritzker Award,” he wrote, adding, “Not every knowledgeable observer always agrees with the jury’s selection. But the jury will continue to do its best to select solely upon the basis of the quality of the architect’s record.” He then thanked the two students for calling attention to the problem of women receiving “a fair and equal place within the profession.”
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