We caught up with the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2023 at the Biennale Architettura, Nigerian artist-designer Demas Nwoko
and following the approval of La Biennale’s board of directors chaired by Roberto Cicutto.
Demas Nwoko photographed in July 2022 at a hand-built drawing table in his home and studio in Idumuje-Ugboko for a profile in Wallpaper*The 88-year-old Nwoko said that he 'hoped his body of work helps build a foundation for the future' for young architects today practising in Nigeria, and beyond.
Daytime image of Nwoko’s first commission, in 1970, a chapel for the Dominican Institute in the Nigerian city of Ibadan, green hedges and shrubs, trees, stone steps up to the chapel, surrounding landscape and buildings, cloudy sky Lokko said at the award's announcement recently: 'One of the central themes of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition is an approach to architecture as an “expanded” field of endeavours, encompassing both the material and immaterial worlds; a space in which ideas are as important as artefacts, particularly in the service of what is yet to come.
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