The Board of the Foundation La Biennale di Venezia [...], attributed the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 11th International Architecture Exhibition to Frank Gehry. [...] "Frank Gehry has transformed modern architecture"; writes Aaron Betsky in his motivation. "He has liberated it from the confines of the 'box' and the constraints of common building practices. As experimental as the art practices that have been his inspiration, Frank Gehry’s architecture is the very modern model for an architecture beyond building"....

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