Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha is to be awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale latest this month. Mendes da Rocha – known for projects including the Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of São Paulo and the Brazilian Sculpture Museum was selected by this year's Biennale curator Alejandro Aravena for the prestigious architecture award. A citation from Aravena and the board of Biennale directors praised the architect for the timelessness of his designs. Many decades after being built, each of his projects have resisted the test of time, both stylistically and physically," they said. "This astonishing consistency may be the consequence of his ideological integrity and his structural genius. He is a nonconformist challenger and simultaneously a passionate realist. His fields of interest are beyond architecture, in political, social, geographical, historical and technical realms."
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