The Jury of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia comprised of Wiel Arets (President, Netherlands), Kristin Feireiss (Germany), Robert A.M. Stern (USA), Benedetta Tagliabue (Italy) and Alan Yentob (Great Britain) has decided to confer the awards as follows:
Golden Lion for Best National Participation to Japan
Architecture possible here? Home-for-All
Naoya Hatakeyama; Kumiko Inui; Sou Fujimoto; Akihisa Hirata
(Pavilion at Giardini)
Commissioner: Toyo Ito Deputy Commissioners: Atsuko Sato, Tae Mori
Golden Lion for the Best Project of the Common Ground Exhibition to
Urban Think Tank (Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner) and Justin McGuirk
(Great Britain and Venezuela exhibit at Corderie, Arsenale)
Silver Lion for a promising practice of the International Exhibition Common Ground
to Grafton Architects (Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara)
(Irland, exhibit at Central Pavilion, Giardini)
The Jury has also decided to assign four Special Mentions:
- Poland
Polish Pavilion - Making the walls quake as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers
(Pavilion at Giardini)
Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska. Curator: Michał Libera
- United States of America
USA Pavilion - Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good
(Pavilion at Giardini)
Commissioner/Curator: Cathy Lang Ho. Curators: Ned Cramer, David van der Leer.
Deputy Curators: Paola Antonelli, Anne Guiney, Zoe Ryan, Michael Sorkin
- Russia
AREP; SPEECH; David Chipperfield Architects; Valode& Pistre; Mohsen Mostafavi; OMA; SANAA; Herzog& de Meuron; Stefano Boeri architetti; Project MEGANOM; MDP/Michel Desvigne paysagiste; BERNASKONI architecture bureau
(Pavilion at Giardini)
Commissioner: Grigory Revzin. Curator: Sergei Tchoban. Deputy Curators: Sergey Kuznetsov, Valeria Kashirina
(Milan, Italy, exhibit at Corderie, Arsenale)
Copycat. Empatia e invidia come generatori di forma
Photo Credits: Giorgio Zucchiatti, Francesco Galli
Sources: www.labiennale.org
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