 Works at the Pulitzer are installed without the wall labels to encourage unmediated encounters with art.Completed in October 2001 after four years of construction and nearly ten of planning, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation was the first public building in United States to be designed by architect Tadao Ando, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1995.The building is characterized by Ando's longstanding attention to natural elements such as light and water, as well as his signature use of concrete.