At New York University, Davis Brody Bond and KieranTimberlake enclose a complex and varied program within a highly tuned building skin.
This month's contest features a memorial and center for civil rights activism that honors a figure who towers over modern American history.
Heralded for his “subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant” work, the 52nd Pritzker laureate is the first British architect to be awarded the prize since Richard Rogers in 2007.
Blair Kamin chronicles a recent urban history of Chicago architecture.