Rafael Moneo awarded Venice Architecture Biennale Golden Lion award
Spanish architect, educator, critic and theoretician Rafael Moneo has been revealed as the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Moneo, 83, will receive the prize during the 17th edition of the event, also known as Biennale Architettura, which opens to the public on May 22 2021.
The Golden Lion is awarded to architects to celebrate their lifetime achievements. Previous recipients include Canadian architect and philanthropist Phyllis Lambert and Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Moneo was nominated by Hashim Sarkis, the curator of the 2021 festival, for being "one of the most transformative architects of his generation".
"Moneo has maintained a poetic prowess" "As a practitioner, and through his broad array of buildings, he has highlighted the ability of every architectural project to respond to contingencies of site and program while transcending them," Sarkis said.
"As an educator, he has rigorously guided several generations of architects towards architecture as a vocation," he added. "As a scholar, he has combined his visual prowess and analytic rigours to help reinterpret some of the most canonical historic buildings with fresh eyes."
Rafael Moneo designed the National Museum of Roman Art in Merida. Photo is by Michael Moran
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