A bed named after an Olympic Games city and two world famous architects are all somehow related. Of the two, who is the Pritzker laureate and what is his special distinction as it relates to those awards?

zbeckabee

Well -- The 1992 games were held in Barcelona, Spain. There is a Barcelona Bed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1930) Barcelona: Hesperia Tower by the British architect Richard Rogers, who was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, in 2007. Three decades after his Pompidou Center in Paris turned the architecture world upside down and brought him global fame, the British architect Richard Rogers has been named the 2007 winner of the Pritzker Prize, the profession's highest honor. (Renzo Piano, his co-architect on the Pompidou Center, received the Pritzker in 1998.) Initially, Rogers partnered with Norman Foster. Foster was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/travel/08check.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritzker_Architecture_Prize#Laureates http://www.pritzkerprize.com/full_new_site/Laureates.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympics#Olympic_Games_host_cities http://www.steelform.com/barcbed.html http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/28/news/prize.php All this -- And I'm still not sure I've got it. First cup of coffee -- Feel like I'm missing something. Sep 13 08, 8:08 AM

edmund80

Yes..... partly ! Right city, right bed. Now....for whom was that bed designed ? Sep 13 08, 12:03 PM

zbeckabee

FROM Qp (queproblema) -- "In 1928 Johnson met the Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was at the time designing the German Pavilion for the Barcelona exhibition of 1929. The meeting was a revelation for Johnson and formed the basis for a lifelong relationship of both collaboration and competition." (The German Pavilion is the Barcelona Pavilion.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson http://pinkappledesigns.co.uk/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe/designer-lounge--soft-seating/barcelona-day-bed-authentic-knoll-studio-.142.htm Sep 13 08, 2:02 PM

edmund80

Yes....very close, but a bit off tangent ! Great job on the links zb, and in fact the answer is already in one of those. Barcelona, 1992 Olympics. Barcelona bed, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1930 for..... Philip Johnson's New York apartment ( your sixth link mentions this ). The same design was later licensed to Knoll furniture for reproduction. It is a misconception that Mies designed it for the Spanish royals. Mies designed the German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exposition which included chairs similar in design to the bed that he created a year later for Johnson. So, Barcelona bed by Mies van der Rohe for Philip Johnson, both of whom are renowned architects, but Johnson has the special distinction of winning the very first Pritzker prize. Great job both of you ! http://www.gomodern.co.uk/store/product.php?productid=16171 http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/GermanPavilion/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe Sep 13 08, 2:36 PM