Pritzker pwms Breyer
Stephen Breyer’s surprising side hustle? Judging the world’s best architects
The retiring Supreme Court justice is also one of the jurors of thePritzker Architecture Prize. It makes sense when you talk to his colleagues.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer may be leaving the nation’s top court, but his days of making high-profile decisions are not over yet. Breyer will reportedly remain one of the jurors of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, regarded as the highest honor in the field.
Breyer has served on the Pritzker jury since 2011. Eunice Kim, a spokesperson for the Pritzker Prize, said in an email that Breyer will remain “an active and valued member of the Pritzker Prize jury.”
As part of a jury that can range in number from five to nine members, Breyer has helped select more than a dozen architects and teams to receive the $100,000 prize, including Shigeru Ban, Balkrishna Doshi, and 2021 laureates Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal.
Breyer, who has no training in architecture, may seem an unlikely arbiter of architectural prowess. But according to one fellow juror, Breyer’s experience as a Supreme Court justice makes him an ideal juror of the slightly less significant question of deciding who qualifies as the world’s best architect.
yes, anon supposes it does
https://www.fastcompany.com/90717044/stephen-breyers-surprising-side-hustle-judging-the-worlds-best-architects