{"id":15487,"date":"2020-06-12T20:35:24","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T00:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2020-06-20T15:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T19:34:17","slug":"frank-gehry-is-on-of-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaearts.org\/US\/frank-gehry-is-on-of-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANK GEHRY is one of the two recipient of VAEA\u2019s Paez Medal of Art 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 13th 2020<\/div>\n
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Ali Cordero Casal<\/div>\n
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Today we celebrate VAEA’s 30th anniversary\u00a0and the 230th\u00a0 birth anniversary of\u00a0\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Antonio P\u00e1ez<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0with this important announcement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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FRANK GEHRY<\/strong><\/div><\/h1>
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Frank Gehry by Alexandra Cabri<\/p>\n<\/div>

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About\u00a0Frank Gehry<\/h2>\n
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Frank Gehry was born in 1929 in Toronto, Canada. His family moved to Los Angeles in 1947, where at age 18 he began his architecture studies, obtaining a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in 1954.<\/p>\n

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Upon graduation, he enlisted in the US Army, and with the help of the GI Bill program, studied Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design until 1957. Since then, Gehry has pursued an architectural career that has spanned more than six decades. The distinctive characteristics of Mr. Gehry’s work stem from his exploration of the expressive\u00a0possibilities of sculptural forms of architecture, linked to the concern with the functioning and articulation of the spaces created, insisting that his buildings confront the context and culturally enrich the site.<\/div>\n
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Mr. Gehry’s contribution to the field of architecture has earned him significant honors and honorary doctorates from his country and internationally, such as Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1987); elected member of the National Academy of Design (1988); Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of Architecture of Canada (1998); Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects AIA (1999); the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989); the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1977), the Wolf Foundation Prize for Art (Architecture) (1992), he was the first recipient of the Friedrich Kiesler Prize (1998), and the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 at the Venice Biennale and the Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts in 2014. Among the honorary doctorates, he was distinguished by the University of Toronto (1998); Yale University (2000); Princeton University (2013); the University of Technology of Sydney (2015), and in 2017 that of the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Gehry’s contributions to the arts have been recognized with the 1992 Praemium Imperiale Award from the Japan Art Association for “honoring outstanding contributions to the development, popularization, and progress of the arts.” He received the Cooper Union Prize for the Advancement of Science and Art (2010) and the Getty Prize 2015 for his contributions and support to the arts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The governments of Canada and France have honored him by appointing him in 2003, as Companion to the Order of Canada, in 2006 Knight (Chevalier) and in 2014, Commander of the National Order of the Legion of Honor. In 2003, he was inducted into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts by the European Union, and in 2006, the Governor of California honored him as one of the first to be inducted into the California Hall of Fame. In 2016, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career, Mr. Gehry has been committed to philanthropic work both locally and internationally. In Los Angeles, he participates in pro bono design projects, including the headquarters of Children’s Institute Inc. as well as a new center for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Youth Orchestra in Inglewood. For the past few years, Mr. Gehry has also been working with the nonprofit organization River LA to coordinate policy and develop a master plan that will revitalize 51 miles of the Los Angeles River, creating an open park space that supports the biodiversity of the region, implementing the infrastructure that connects the neighborhoods and increase access to recreational and cultural programming in the communities. As part of his extensive outreach and public participation during the master plan design process, Mr. Gehry has personally met with principals from various schools that span the length of the river and has since made plans to include ten of these schools into Turnaround Arts California, a program he has co-founded, in association with the National Endowment for the Arts, which strives to build arts education in all schools. Internationally, Mr. Gehry contributed to the design of the Pierre Boulez Concert Hall in Berlin, a performance space for the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth orchestra that unites musicians with\u00a0diverse backgrounds from across the Middle East. He is also a founding member of the Hereditary Diseases Foundation, which funds innovative research to cure Huntington’s disease.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gehry’s notable architectural projects include Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Nationale-Nederlanden Building in Prague, Czech Republic; the DZ Bank Building in Berlin, Germany; Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Maggie\u2019s Center, a center for cancer patients in Dundee, Scotland; Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California; Jay Pritzker Pavilion and BP Bridge at Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois; Marqu\u00e9s de Riscal Hotel in El Ciego, Spain; Ontario Art Gallery in Toronto, Ontario; Peter B. Lewis Science Library in Princeton, New Jersey; Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada; New Campus for New World Symphony in Miami, Florida; Eight Spruce Street Residential Tower in New York City; Opus Residential Tower in Hong Kong; Signature Theater in New York City; House for the Make it Right Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana; Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, France; Biomuseo in Panama City, Panama; the Dr. Chau Chak building for the Sydney University of Technology, Australia; the West Campus for Facebook in Menlo Park, California; the Boulez Hall in Berlin, Germany; and the Louis Vuitton flagship store in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n

Current projects include the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates; King Street Development in Toronto, Ontario; 8150 Sunset in Los Angeles, California; the Ocean Avenue Project in Santa Monica, California; the World Jewish Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel; the Los Angeles River Revitalization Project in Los Angeles, California, and single-family residential projects in Atherton and Los Angeles, California, and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Projects under construction include the LUMA \/ Parc des Ateliers in Arles, France; Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Facebook Campus in Menlo Park, California; the Grand Avenue Project in Los Angeles, California; a new center for the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra (YOLA) in Inglewood, California; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington D.C .; The Maison LVMH \u2013 Art, Talents, Heritage in Paris, France, and the development of the Battersea Power Station in London, England.<\/p>\n

His work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, such as\u00a0 Leo Castelli Gallery – 1983,\u00a0 Walker Art Center -1986, MoMA – 1988,\u00a0 Whitney Museum of American Art – 1988, Guggenheim Museum, NY – 2001, Center Pompidou – 2014, Los Angeles County Museum of Art LACMA – 2015 and\u00a0 21_21 Design Sight Museum, Tokyo – 2015, among others.<\/p>\n

Gehry has been a professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California and, in addition to his position at USC, Gehry has held teaching positions at Harvard University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Toronto, Columbia University, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, and at Yale University.<\/p>\n

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About Alcock and Gehry<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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This year VAEA is honoring with the 2020 Paez Medal for the Arts two prestigious architects recognized worldwide: Walter James Alcock and Frank Gehry.<\/p>\n

They, as sensitive and talented artists, have used architecture as their means of expression. Both are and will be recognized as excellent creators of remarkable works of unquestionable beauty and technological contributions, icons of their time. Let’s honor who honor deserves.<\/p>\n

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Sobre Frank Gehry<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Frank Gehry naci\u00f3 en 1929 en Toronto, Canad\u00e1. Su familia se mud\u00f3 a Los \u00c1ngeles en 1947, donde a los 18 a\u00f1os comenz\u00f3 sus estudios de arquitectura, obteniendo una licenciatura de la Universidad del Sur de California en 1954.<\/p>\n

Al graduarse, se alist\u00f3 en el Ej\u00e9rcito de los EE. UU. Y, con la ayuda del programa GI Bill, estudi\u00f3 Planificaci\u00f3n Urbana en la Escuela de Dise\u00f1o de la Universidad de Harvard hasta 1957. Desde entonces, Gehry ha desarrollado una carrera arquitect\u00f3nica que ha abarcado m\u00e1s de seis d\u00e9cadas. Las caracter\u00edsticas distintivas del trabajo del Sr. Gehry provienen de su exploraci\u00f3n de las posibilidades expresivas de las formas escult\u00f3ricas de la arquitectura, vinculadas a la preocupaci\u00f3n por el funcionamiento y la articulaci\u00f3n de los espacios creados, insistiendo en que sus edificios confronten el contexto y enriquezcan culturalmente el sitio.<\/p>\n

La contribuci\u00f3n del Sr. Gehry al campo de la arquitectura le ha valido importantes honores y doctorados honorarios de su pa\u00eds e internacionalmente, como Miembro de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Letras (1987); miembro electo de la Academia Nacional de Dise\u00f1o (1988); Medalla de oro del Instituto\u00a0 Real de Arquitectura de Canad\u00e1 (1998); Medalla de oro del Instituto Americano de Arquitectos AIA (1999); Premio de Arquitectura Pritzker (1989); el Premio Arnold W. Brunner Memorial de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras (1977), el Premio Wolf de Arte (Arquitectura) (1992), fue el primer ganador del Premio Friedrich Kiesler (1998) y el Le\u00f3n de Oro Lifetime Achievement Award 2008 en la Bienal de Venecia y el Premio Pr\u00edncipe de Asturias de las Artes en 2014. Entre los doctorados honorarios, fue distinguido por la Universidad de Toronto (1998); Universidad de Yale (2000); Universidad de Princeton (2013); Universidad de Tecnolog\u00eda de Sydney (2015), y en 2017 la de la Universidad de Oxford.<\/p>\n

Las contribuciones del Sr. Gehry a las artes han sido reconocidas con el Premio Praemium Imperiale de 1992 de la Asociaci\u00f3n de Arte de Jap\u00f3n por “honrar las contribuciones sobresalientes al desarrollo, la popularizaci\u00f3n y el progreso de las artes”. Recibi\u00f3 el Premio Cooper Union para el Avance de la Ciencia y el Arte (2010) y el Premio Getty 2015 por sus contribuciones y apoyo a las artes.<\/p>\n

Los gobiernos de Canad\u00e1 y Francia lo han honrado al nombrarlo en 2003, como Compa\u00f1ero de la Orden de Canad\u00e1, en 2006 Knight (Chevalier) y en 2014, Comandante de la Orden Nacional de la Legi\u00f3n de Honor. En 2003, fue incluido en la Academia Europea de Ciencias y Artes por la Uni\u00f3n Europea, y en 2006, el Gobernador de California lo honr\u00f3 como uno de los primeros en ingresar al Sal\u00f3n de la Fama de California. En 2016, el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, le otorg\u00f3 la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad.<\/p>\n

A lo largo de su carrera, el Sr. Gehry se ha comprometido con el trabajo filantr\u00f3pico tanto a nivel local como internacional. En Los \u00c1ngeles, participa en proyectos de dise\u00f1o pro bono, incluida la sede de Children’s Institute Inc., as\u00ed como un nuevo centro para la Orquesta Filarm\u00f3nica Juvenil de Los \u00c1ngeles en Inglewood. Durante los \u00faltimos a\u00f1os, el Sr. Gehry tambi\u00e9n ha estado trabajando con la organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro River LA para coordinar pol\u00edticas y desarrollar un plan maestro que revitalizar\u00e1 51 millas del r\u00edo Los \u00c1ngeles, creando un espacio de parque abierto que respalde la biodiversidad de la regi\u00f3n, implementando la infraestructura que conecta los vecindarios y aumenta el acceso a la programaci\u00f3n recreativa y cultural en las comunidades. Como parte de su gran alcance y participaci\u00f3n p\u00fablica durante el proceso de dise\u00f1o del plan maestro, el Sr. Gehry se ha reunido personalmente con directores de varias escuelas que se encuentran a lo largo de todo el r\u00edo y desde entonces ha planeado incluir diez de estas escuelas en Turnaround Arts California, un programa que \u00e9l cofund\u00f3, en asociaci\u00f3n con National Endowment for the Arts, que se esfuerza por desarrollar la educaci\u00f3n art\u00edstica en todas las escuelas. A nivel internacional, el Sr. Gehry contribuy\u00f3 al dise\u00f1o de la Sala de Conciertos Pierre Boulez en Berl\u00edn, un espacio de actuaci\u00f3n para la Orquesta West-Eastern Divan, una orquesta juvenil que une a m\u00fasicos con diversos or\u00edgenes de todo el Medio Oriente. Tambi\u00e9n es miembro fundador de la Fundaci\u00f3n de Enfermedades Hereditarias, que financia investigaciones innovadoras para curar la enfermedad de Huntington.<\/p>\n

Los proyectos arquitect\u00f3nicos notables del Sr. Gehry incluyen el Museo Guggenheim en Bilbao, Espa\u00f1a; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum en la Universidad de Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Edificio Nationale-Nederlanden en Praga, Rep\u00fablica Checa; el DZ Bank Building en Berl\u00edn, Alemania; Centro Richard B. Fisher para las Artes Esc\u00e9nicas en Bard College en Annandale-on-Hudson, Nueva York; Maggie\u2019s Center, un centro para pacientes con c\u00e1ncer en Dundee, Escocia; Walt Disney Concert Hall en Los \u00c1ngeles, California; Jay Pritzker Pavilion y BP Bridge en Millennium Park en Chicago, Illinois; Hotel Marqu\u00e9s de Riscal en El Ciego, Espa\u00f1a; Ontario Art Gallery en Toronto, Ontario; Biblioteca de Ciencias Peter B. Lewis en Princeton, Nueva Jersey; Lou Ruvo Brain Institute en Las Vegas, Nevada; Nuevo campus para New World Symphony en Miami, Florida; Torre residencial de ocho calles Spruce en la ciudad de Nueva York; Torre Residencial Opus en Hong Kong; Signature Theatre en la ciudad de Nueva York; Casa para la Fundaci\u00f3n Make it Right en Nueva Orleans, Louisiana; Fundaci\u00f3n Louis Vuitton en Par\u00eds, Francia; Biomuseo en la ciudad de Panam\u00e1, Panam\u00e1; el edificio del Dr. Chau Chak para la Universidad Tecnol\u00f3gica de Sydney, Australia; West Campus para Facebook en Menlo Park, California; el Sal\u00f3n Boulez en Berl\u00edn, Alemania; y la tienda insignia Louis Vuitton en Se\u00fal, Corea del Sur.<\/p>\n

Los proyectos actuales incluyen el Guggenheim Abu Dhabi en los Emiratos \u00c1rabes Unidos; King Street Development en Toronto, Ontario; 8150 Puesta de sol en Los \u00c1ngeles, California; el Proyecto Ocean Avenue en Santa M\u00f3nica, California; el Museo Jud\u00edo Mundial en Tel Aviv, Israel; el Proyecto de revitalizaci\u00f3n del r\u00edo Los \u00c1ngeles en Los \u00c1ngeles, California, y proyectos residenciales unifamiliares en Atherton y Los \u00c1ngeles, California, y Cabo San Lucas, M\u00e9xico.<\/p>\n

Los proyectos en construcci\u00f3n incluyen el LUMA \/ Parc des Ateliers en Arles, Francia; Museo de Arte de Filadelfia en Filadelfia, Pensilvania; el campus de Facebook en Menlo Park, California; el Proyecto Grand Avenue en Los \u00c1ngeles, California; un nuevo centro para la Orquesta Juvenil de Los \u00c1ngeles (YOLA) en Inglewood, California; el Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial en Washington D.C .; La Maison LVMH – Arte, talentos, patrimonio en Par\u00eds, Francia, y el desarrollo de la central el\u00e9ctrica de Battersea en Londres, Inglaterra.<\/p>\n

Su obra ha sido expuesta en numerosos museos y galer\u00edas, como la Galer\u00eda Leo Castelli – 1983, Walker Art Center -1986, MoMA – 1988, Whitney Museum of American Art – 1988, Guggenheim Museum, NY – 2001, Centre Pompidou – 2014, Los Museo de Arte del Condado de \u00c1ngeles LACMA – 2015 y 21_21 Design Sight Museum, Tokio – 2015, entre otros.<\/p>\n

Gehry ha sido profesor de Arquitectura en la Universidad del Sur de California y, adem\u00e1s de su puesto en la USC, Gehry ha ocupado puestos docentes en la Universidad de Harvard, la Universidad de California en Los \u00c1ngeles, la Universidad de Toronto, la Universidad de Columbia, el Federal Instituto de Tecnolog\u00eda en Zurich y en la Universidad de Yale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sobre Alcock y Gehry<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Este a\u00f1o, VAEA honra con la Medalla Paez 2020 para las Artes a dos prestigiosos arquitectos reconocidos en todo el mundo: Walter James Alcock y Frank Gehry.<\/p>\n

Ellos, como artistas sensibles y talentosos, han utilizado la arquitectura como medio de expresi\u00f3n. Ambos son y ser\u00e1n reconocidos como excelentes creadores de obras notables de indudable belleza y contribuciones tecnol\u00f3gicas, \u00edconos de su tiempo. Honremos a quien honor merece.<\/p>\n

Texts by:<\/p>\n

Henrique Vera
\nArchitectural Design Professor
\nFaculty of Architecture and Urbanism UCV
\nBetty Richards (VAEA)
\nProfessor – Research Methodology
\nReferences taken from content written by Jos\u00e9 Luis Colmenares, Alejandro Ram\u00edrez Mor\u00f3n @aleramirezve and journalist Karina Lyn.<\/p>\n

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About the P\u00e1ez Medal<\/h3>\n

The P\u00e1ez Medal of Art is awarded once a year to an individual or group that has had an impact and contributed to the excellence, growth, support and proliferation of the arts in Venezuela and the United States; Previous recipients include: Margot Benacerraf in 2019,\u00a0 Julian Schnabel in 2019, Gustavo Dudamel in 2018, Bob Colacello in 2017, Marisol Escobar in 2016; Annie Leibovitz in 2015; Sof\u00eda Imber in 2014, Robert Wilson in 2013 and Carlos Cruz-Diez in 2012.<\/p>\n

Press information available in Spanish & English by request at\u00a0contact@vaearts.org<\/a><\/div>\n
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About VAEA<\/h3>\n
The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA) is a New York based 501 (c)3 public\u00a0charity, founded on June 13, 1990\u00a0\u00a0with the mission of promoting the best of Venezuelan and American cultures through bi-national cultural and social programs.<\/div>\n
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