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U.S. architect Peter Eisenman wins Venice Biennale career prize
Updated at 19:54 on September 10, 2004, EST.
VENICE, Italy (AP) - The Venice Biennale architecture exhibition awarded its Golden Lion for lifetime achievement Friday to American Peter Eisenman, whose many works include Germany's national Holocaust memorial.
Eisenman, who also teaches at Yale and Princeton universities, is now building the City of Culture of Galicia in Spain's Santiago de Compostela, which includes an opera house, libraries and museums. He's also working on a new stadium for the Arizona Cardinals, an American football team.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin features concrete slabs over a vast area to memorialize the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. The work - long mired in debates about financing, artistic vision, and Nazi-era guilt - is set to open May 5, the 60th anniversary of Germany's defeat.
The Biennale cited Eisenman's "accomplishments as a thinker and teacher, a mentor to many minds, an architect of singular capacity and inventiveness, a master designer for the new millennium and a leading light in the profession worldwide."
The Golden Lion for best installation at the exhibition went to Belgium's pavilion for Kinshasa, The Imaginary City. The exhibition organizers said in a statement that the work "argues that the questions of identity, community and infrastructure are undergoing such heavy metamorphosis that new definitions and solutions are to be developed."
The Golden Lion for most remarkable work in the Metamorph exhibition went to Japanese company SANAA for the Twenty-First Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, Japan, and for the extension of the Ivam modern art museum in Valencia, Spain, the Biennale said.
Among numerous smaller prizes was a photography award given for the pictures of Mars taken by NASA, with the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cornell University in New York.
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U.S. architect Peter Eisenman wins Venice Biennale career prize
Updated at 19:54 on September 10, 2004, EST.
VENICE, Italy (AP) - The Venice Biennale architecture exhibition awarded its Golden Lion for lifetime achievement Friday to American Peter Eisenman, whose many works include Germany's national Holocaust memorial.
Eisenman, who also teaches at Yale and Princeton universities, is now building the City of Culture of Galicia in Spain's Santiago de Compostela, which includes an opera house, libraries and museums. He's also working on a new stadium for the Arizona Cardinals, an American football team.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin features concrete slabs over a vast area to memorialize the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. The work - long mired in debates about financing, artistic vision, and Nazi-era guilt - is set to open May 5, the 60th anniversary of Germany's defeat.
The Biennale cited Eisenman's "accomplishments as a thinker and teacher, a mentor to many minds, an architect of singular capacity and inventiveness, a master designer for the new millennium and a leading light in the profession worldwide."
The Golden Lion for best installation at the exhibition went to Belgium's pavilion for Kinshasa, The Imaginary City. The exhibition organizers said in a statement that the work "argues that the questions of identity, community and infrastructure are undergoing such heavy metamorphosis that new definitions and solutions are to be developed."
The Golden Lion for most remarkable work in the Metamorph exhibition went to Japanese company SANAA for the Twenty-First Century Museum of Contemporary Art, in Kanazawa, Japan, and for the extension of the Ivam modern art museum in Valencia, Spain, the Biennale said.
Among numerous smaller prizes was a photography award given for the pictures of Mars taken by NASA, with the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cornell University in New York.
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