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The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia was awarded to Spanish architect, educator, critic, and theoretician Rafael Moneo. Selected by the Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, upon recommendation of the Curator of the Biennale Architettura 2021, Hashim Sarkis, the acknowledgment will be awarded to the architect on Saturday, May 22nd, 2021 together with the Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
in memoriam to Lina Bo Bardi.
The first-ever Spanish architect to receive the Pritzker Prize, Rafael Moneo (Tudela, Spain,1937) is famous for his contextual buildings and commitment to modernist stylings. Attracted initially to philosophy and painting rather than architecture, he was influenced by his father - an industrial designer – to pursue a career in architecture. Graduated in 1961 from the Escuela Técnica Superior of Madrid, the architect worked during his early years with the ar
The first and only building in the United States designed by the 20th Century architect Le Corbusier sits among some of the oldest buildings that date back to before the United States was organized. Completed in 1963, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is located on Harvard University s campus. Designed in conjunction with Chilean architect Guillermo Jullian de la Fuentes and Josep Lluis Sert - dean of Harvard s GSD at the time, the Carpenter Center stands out among the traditional architectural styles of Harvard Yard as a combination of Le Corbusier s earlier modernist works.
In 2018, Pompeu Fabra University launched its Planetary Wellbeing initiative, a long-term institutional strategy spurred by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and based on the Planetary Health project promoted by the Rockefeller Foundation and The Lancet.
Harvard Graduate School of Design Announces Wheelwright Prize Finalists
April 7, 2021
Wheelwright Prize finalists from left: Germane Barnes, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Iulia Statica, Catty Dan Zhang.
The Harvard Graduate School of Design today announced four finalists for the 2021 Wheelwright Prize, which recognizes early-career architects fostering new forms of research in the field. This year, judges paid particular attention to work addressing issues of race, climate change, migration, and the global pandemic.
The four finalists include Germane Barnes, whose work Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture investigates how Roman and Italian architecture may be understood through the lens of non-white constructors while taking into account contributions of the African Diaspora; Luis Berríos-Negrón, who is investigating the impact of colonialism on present day climate change through his project, “Remediating the Specularium: a deposition of colonial memory
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Over the years, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) has educated countless celebrated architects and urban planners. Now, the school is introducing an endeavor that could make thought-provoking teachings on design more accessible to the wider world.
This week, Harvard GSD announced the launch of Harvard Design Press, a book publisher organized under the greater auspices of Harvard University Press. According to the announcement, the imprint “challenges, broadens, and advances the design disciplines and advocates for the value and power of design in making a more resilient, just, and beautiful world.”
Doing so will involve publishing new ideas about how the graduate program’s disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design are researched and practiced. In the process, Harvard Design Press hopes to connect both established and emerging thinkers and practitioners with avenues and opportunities to share their work that migh