Readers debate the selection of Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi for the Pritzker Prize 2018, in this weeks comments update.
Seal of approval: commenters were split by Doshi's Pritzker win, with some seeing it as a victory for region-specific architecture, and others suggesting that there were more deserving winners.
"Another solid selection to further push the idea that regional, contextual architecture is better than globalist, stylistic works," stated Archi.
But Brazilian was quite against the decision: "The prize is becoming a joke, seriously. RCR and Doshi are just choices to fulfil an agenda. At least this time they chose someone with a lifetime career."
HeywoodFloyd argued that there might have been an oversight: "I'm all for the regional/contextual thing, I just think there are one or two globalists who deserved their moment of glory before the rules changed, Steven Holl being at the top of that list." "I really like that the Pritzker has focused more recently on architects who don't fit the Frank Gehry starchitect mould, but I also can't help feeling that many of the more recently chosen architects have not actually had careers or impacts worthy of architecture's top prize," agreed Adam Cohen
"Doshi certainly has the career that deserves a Pritzker. The Pritzker prize should award excellence in architecture. Full stop," fired back a defensive Tina.
One reader thought the choice might have gone over the head...