Friedrich Kiesler Prize

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The Austrian Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art is awarded for extraordinary achievements in art and architecture . The award was launched in 1997 at the express request of Friedrich Kiesler's second wife, Lillian, and commemorates the internationally successful architect and artist who died in 1965.

Every two years this award, endowed with 55,000 euros, is presented alternately by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna . The implementation is organized by the Austrian Friedrich and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation . An international jury of experts made up of theorists, artists and architects awards the prize for "outstanding achievements in the field of architecture and the arts that correspond to the innovative conceptions of Friedrich Kiesler and his theory of 'correlated arts'."

The first prize winner was the Canadian architect Frank O. Gehry . The award was presented by the Austrian Chancellor Viktor Klima , the laudation was given by architect Hans Hollein . In 2010 the prize went to an Austrian artist for the first time, Heimo Zobernig .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Architecture filled with lust: Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Architecture and Art to Frank O. Gehry. BauNetz, May 5, 1998, accessed on March 1, 2014 .
  2. ^ Friedrich Kiesler Prize to Andrea Zittel. derStandard.at , July 12, 2012, accessed on March 1, 2014 .
  3. ^ Friedrich Kiesler Prize for Heimo Zobernig. DiePresse.com, October 19, 2010, accessed on March 1, 2014 .
  4. ^ Andrés Jaque receives the 2016 Friedrich Kiesler Prize . OTS notification dated June 17, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016.
  5. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Architect Yona Friedman receives Austrian Kiesler Prize . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on February 23, 2018]).