Many illustrious architects have over the years exhibited their works at the famous Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza and many of them have also been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize.
These exhibitions, which started in 1995, are part of Omaggio Palladiano, an event renowned throughout the world and which has always attracted the attention of important publications such as Casabella 642 (February 1997) and Abitare 401 (December 2000) that devoted several sections to it.
The works are usually displayed in an aluminium frame that Steven Holl created in 2002 when he had his own exhibition.
This year the catalogue published by Electra ( Mondadori) will feature a foreword by Francesco Dal Co and essays by Sergio Polano and Donata Battilotti.
Here’s list of all the exhibitioners from 1995 onwards: Mario Botta (Switzerland), Renzo Piano (Italy), Gino Valle (Italy),Gianugo Polesello (Italy), Tadao Ando (Japan), Gabetti & Isola (Italy), Sverre Fehn (Norway), Oswald Mathias Ungers (Germany), Alvaro Siza (Portugal), Franco Purini (Italy), Toyo Ito (Japan), Steven Holl (U.
S.
A.
), Alberto Campo Baeza (Spain), Kazuyo Sejima e Ryue Nishizawa (Japan); plus Frank O.
Gehry (U.
S.
A.
), Francesco Venezia (Italy) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal) who, alas, never completed their projects.