American architect Steven Holl has won the Japan Art Association’s 2014 Praemium Imperiale International Arts Award.
He joins South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose work helped bring the world’s attention to the outrage of apartheid, and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
The award, one of the most prestigious international prizes for painting, sculpture, architecture, music and theatre/film, brings with it $150,000.
Presented annually by the Japan Art Association, it recognizes lifetime achievement in the arts in categories not covered by the Nobel Prize.
Holl, who won the 2012 AIA Gold Medal, the 2010 RIBA Jencks Award and the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, works all over the world.
His New York City portfolio includes Columbia University’s Campbell Sports Center, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, the newest Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle store, Pratt Institute’s Higgins Hall (new wing), New York University’s Department of Philosophy (interior) and the Hunters Point Community Library in Long Island City (in development).
His Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Bloch Building Addition (Kansas City, MO), was named “#1 Architectural Marvel of 2007” by Time Magazine.
