VALLADOLID, SPAIN.- Architect Peter Eisenman has won the Gabarrón Foundation’s International Award for Visual Arts 2003. Peter Eisenman was very happy when he received the news of the award at this New York studio. The award was given to him for “his wide vocation to the service of architecture related with other areas such as philosophy and visual arts,” stated Catalina Luca de Tena, who presided the jury. She further stated that he was given the award for “his universal thinking and work projected in Japan, Europe and the United States as well as the Spanish project of the Culture City in Santiago de Compostela.”

The jury had to decide among 155 proposals that came from 12 countries, according to the president of the foundation, Cris Gabarrón. Other members of the jury were Salvador Andrés Ordax, Art History professor; art critic and writer Carlos García Osuna; the director of the Museo Art Nouveau, Pedro Pérez Castro, and architect Antón García-Abril.

Eisenman confessed he loves Spain. He said, “I have kept a long and deep relationship with the country, mainly through my friendship with many architects and my participation in the activities of universities.” Eisenman refered to his friends Luis Fernández Galiano, Oriol Bohígas and Rafael Moneo.