Biennale Architecture
11th International Architecture Exhibition
Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement to Frank O. Gehry and James S. Ackerman
The Board of the Venice Biennale, chaired by Paolo Baratta, on the proposal of the Director, Aaron Betsky, attributed the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition to Frank O. Gehry. With this award, the desire is to stress – in line with the spirit of the 11th International Architecture Exhibition – how much Gehry’s work is the significant result of years of experimentation. “Frank Gehry has transformed modern architecture”; writes Aaron Betsky in his statement. “He has liberated it from the confines of the ‘box’ and the constraints of common building practices. As experimental as the art practices that have been his inspiration, Frank Gehry’s architecture is the very modern model for an architecture beyond building”.
The Board has also underlined the important presence Gehry will have in Venice with his Venice Gateway, the water gate linking the city to the airport.
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The Board also approved the assigning of a special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to a historian of Architecture – on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio – to the American James S. Ackerman, the doyen of historians of Renaissance architecture and one of the scholars who created the modern history of architecture, as well as the author of two of the most important monographs dedicated to Michelangelo and Andrea Palladio.
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