Lambert to get lifetime Biennale Lion

(ANSA) - Venice, May 20 - The Venice Biennale announced Tuesday that Canadian architect and curator Phyllis Lambert will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition 'Fundamentals' this June.
    "Not as an architect, but as a client and custodian, Phyllis Lambert has made a huge contribution to architecture," said Paolo Baratta, chair of the Venice Biennale Board, and Rem Koolhaas, director of the Architecture Biennale, in a statement explaining their decision.
    The pair credited her for commissioning Mies van der Rohe to design the Seagram Building in New York, or as they called it, "perfection on earth". "Architects make architecture; Phyllis Lambert made architects," they added. The honor will be officially awarded on June 7th, the start of the festival, which runs through November 23.