Gehry Wins Prince of Asturias Award For the Arts

In addition to his Pritzker Architecture Prize (1989), Praemium Imperiale (1992), AIA Gold Medal (1999), and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Lifetime Achievement Award (2000), among numerous other awards, Frank Gehry can now boast of receiving the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts. Founded by Spain's Prince of Asturias Foundation in 1981, the annual awards aim "to contribute to encouraging and promoting the scientific, cultural and humanistic values that form part of mankind's universal heritage." The jury granting Gehry the award (the sixth architect* to receive the Arts award) commended him "for the relevance and impact of his creations in numerous countries, via which he has defined and furthered architecture in the past half century." Gehry received the award at a ceremony on May 7, 2014.

*Previous architecture recipients:

• Rafael Moneo (2012)
• Norman Foster (2009)
• Santiago Calatrava Valls (1999)
• Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza (1993)
• Oscar Niemeyer (1989)