TWO ARCHITECTS WIN ISRAEL’S WOLF PRIZE
Yesterday, the Wolf Foundation announced that British architect David Chipperfield and American architect Peter Eisenman have won this year’s Wolf Prize.
Chipperfield is being recognized for overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin’s Neues Museum in a building that had been abandoned since World War II, notes the Associated Press. His new building incorporated bricks, stairs, and bullet holes from the original museum, which opened in 1855.
American architect Peter Eisenman designed the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, inaugurated in 2005. The foundation says Eisenman’s work “provides a new paradigm for memorialization.”
The winners will share the one-hundred-thousand-dollar award.
On Monday, the Wolf Foundation announced prizes in medicine, agriculture, physics, and mathematics.
