Architecture Biennale, Lifetime Achievement Lion to Demas Nwoko

(ANSA) - VENICE, MARCH 23 - The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, entitled The Laboratory of the Future, has been awarded to Demas Nwoko, a Nigerian artist, designer and architect.

    The decision was approved by the Board of Directors of the Biennale chaired by Roberto Cicutto, on the proposal of the Curator Lesley Lokko.

The award ceremony and inauguration of the Biennale Architettura 2023 will be held on Saturday 20 May at Ca' Giustinian in Venice.

    For Lesley Lokko "one of the central themes of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition is an approach to architecture as an expanded field of activity, encompassing both the material and immaterial world. It seems entirely appropriate that the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement should be awarded to has to its credit a production of material works that cover the last seventy years, but whose immaterial legacy - approach, ideas, ethics - is still being evaluated, understood, celebrated".

    "Baba" (prince) Demas Nwoko is an architect, sculptor, designer, writer, set designer, critic and historian.

When asked about it, he refers to himself as an "artist-designer".

(HANDLE).