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Glenn Murcutt AO (b. 1936), architect, received the world's highest architectural honour when he was awarded the Pritzker Prize in April 2002. Having spent a good deal of his youth in New Guinea, where he learned to love simple shapes and materials, Murcutt only just scraped into a university architecture course at the University of New South Wales, graduating in 1961. As a student, he drew on principles he had learned while working for his father, who had a number of building businesses in Sydney after the war. Murcutt is unusual among Pritzker winners in that he works alone, mostly on residential homes; he has never made a skyscraper or a tourist attraction; and he uses mostly basic materials. By using shades, louvres, fully opening walls and carefully planned ventilation he enables his buildings to respond instantly to changing conditions and requirements. His overriding design philosophy is that dwellings should 'touch the earth lightly'.


A legendary   painter that has influenced young Indian artists of today is Jogen Chowdhury  (Born on February 16, 1939) , who received his education at the Government College of Art & Craft in Calcutta and later at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.The figures have an exuberant sensuality and are created through a combination of expressive deformation and decorative willfulness. In addition to making social and political statements, Chowdhury either sublimates or criticizes the harms to the human situation. Jogen Chowdhury's art is a mirror of both a communal and subjective awareness, as well as a means of self-expression, because of his ability to juxtaposition opposing emotions, the real and the imagined, and the known and the unknown. 

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