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Pritzker Architecture Prize
April 2, 2001 -- From a new Gallery of Modern Art for London's Tate Museum to a Napa Valley winery, from apartment buildings to a throat lozenge factory, architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron take familiar themes and make them fresh again.
The boyhood friends from Basel, Switzerland, are the recipients of the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
 Listen as NPR's Lynn Neary reports for Morning Edition.
Herzog and de Meuron began their partnership in 1978. They have designed dozens of projects in the United States and Europe, giving new treatments to modernist themes, often with what one Pritzker judge called a "capacity to astonish."
"Andy Warhol is an artist we would most like to have known," Herzog has said. "He used common Pop images to say something new. That is exactly what we are interested in: to use well known forms and materials in a new way so that they become alive again."
The Pritzker, announced Monday, will be awarded May 7 at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home near Charlottesville, Va.
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