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20/05/2009
Norman Foster Awarded With €50,000 Spanish Prize
The architect Norman Foster (Manchester, 1935) has been awarded today with the Spanish Prize Príncipe de Asturias, in the Arts category.
The annual reward, worth €50,000, will be handed over by the Spanish Prince Felipe de Borbón in a ceremony that will take place at the end of October, at the Campoamor theatre in Oviedo (Spain).
Foster - also awarded with the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999 and the European Mies van der Rohe Award in 1990 - is the founder and chairman of the firm Foster and Partners. It involves more than 1,000 professionals and has created almost 300 works across the world.
Among the candidates proposed this year for the award there was the London actress Vanessa Redgrave and the north American sculptor Richard Serra.
Other worldwide known artists whose work was awarded with this prize were Bob Dylan (2007) and Woody Allen (2003).
(AC/JM)
The annual reward, worth €50,000, will be handed over by the Spanish Prince Felipe de Borbón in a ceremony that will take place at the end of October, at the Campoamor theatre in Oviedo (Spain).
Foster - also awarded with the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999 and the European Mies van der Rohe Award in 1990 - is the founder and chairman of the firm Foster and Partners. It involves more than 1,000 professionals and has created almost 300 works across the world.
Among the candidates proposed this year for the award there was the London actress Vanessa Redgrave and the north American sculptor Richard Serra.
Other worldwide known artists whose work was awarded with this prize were Bob Dylan (2007) and Woody Allen (2003).
(AC/JM)
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