9th international architecture exhibition in venice, italy, 2004 / kiesler prize .................................................................................
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9th international architecture exhibition in venice, italy, 2004 kiesler prize --- asymptote wins kiesler-prize. among over a dozen nominations representing highly distinctive positions from around the world, the jury unanimously chose asymptote / hani rashid and lise ann couturte as the recipients of the 4th austrian frederick kiesler prize for architecture and the arts 2004. it is precisely asymptote’s fluid approach to non- normative space, their conjunction betwen the body and the experience of a building that impressed the jury. --- see the asymptote installation for the IX architecture biennale in venice, 2004 --- frederick (john) kiesler was born 22.9.1890 in vienna, austria. he was an architect, sculptor, painter, designer, set designer and art historian. kiesler was tireless in his pursuit of a radical new concept for interior spaces; his dream was a polydimensional living space, an organic continuum in which colour, form and light - combined with magical and mythical themes - would create a unique cosmos. he died in 1965 in new york. --- see the exhibition ‘peggy and kiesler: the collector and the visionary’ --- the friedrich und lillian kiesler foundfation in vienna, holds more than 3,000 sketches, drawings, plans and paintings, in addition to over 1,000 photographs, manuscripts, letters, documents, catalogues and books related to kiesler’s projects from the 1920s to the 1960s. its mission is to disseminate the work of frederick kiesler to a greater public by means of exhibitions and symposia, while making available its holdings for scholarly studies and publications. lilian kiesler studied arts in the '30s, though she rarely exhibited, she created paintings and drawings of realistically rendered flowers. in later life she also performed in theater pieces by steve buscemi and robert wilson. when her husband died in 1965, she gave his work and papers to harvard, yale and the archives of american art. in '96, she set up the frederick and lillian kiesler foundation. with rich holdings in this foundation it has been possible to reconstruct kiesler's ideals of living and his concept of modernity. lilian kiesler died July 25, 2001 in new york. --- the friedrich kiesler-prize the austrian frederick kiesler prize is a $55,000 award given to individuals in architecture and related arts. the three previous recipients are frank o. gehry (1998), judith barry (2000) and cedric price (2002). http://www.kiesler.org --- back to the biennale index page --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------	kiesler-prize giving ceremony at the guggenheim collection’s terrace in venice. asymptote / lise anne couture and hani rashid the asymptote studio founders are receiving the prize