Why Did Pritzker Take So Long For Rogers?

Richard Rogers finally wins architecture’s top prize. But why’d it take so long? “It may be because Rogers, unlike many of his high-profile colleagues, has generally avoided playing the star. While his colleagues Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid have attempted to build what are, in effect, works of art, Rogers has been content to practice the art of building. Not at all the same thing, and a curiously traditional attitude for such a resolute iconoclast.”