| # |
Year |
Director/Curator |
Exhibition |
Awards |
Ref |
|---|
| 1st |
1980 |
Paolo Portoghesi |
The presence of the Past |
|
[1] |
| 2nd |
1981-82 |
|
|
[2] |
| 3rd |
1985 |
Aldo Rossi |
Progetto Venezia |
|
[2] |
| 4th |
1986 |
Hendrik Petrus Berlage—Drawings |
|
[2] |
| 5th |
1991 |
Francesco Dal Co |
|
|
[2] |
| 6th |
1996 |
Hans Hollein |
Sensing the Future—The Architect as Seismograph |
|
[2] |
| 7th |
2000 |
Massimiliano Fuksas |
Less Aesthetics, More Ethics |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Renzo Piano, Paolo Soleri, and Jørn Utzon.
- Golden Lion for Best Interpretation of the International Exhibition: Jean Nouvel
- Special Prize for Best National Participation: Spain
- Special "Bruno Zevi" prize for best architecture professor: Joseph Rykwert
- Special Prize for Best Architectural Works Patron: Thomas Krens
- Special Prize for Best Architecture Editor: Eduardo Luis Rodriguez
- Special Prize for Best Architecture Photographer: Ilya Utkin
|
[2] |
| 8th |
2002 |
Deyan Sudjic |
NEXT |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Toyo Ito
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Iberê Camargo Foundation designed by Alvaro Siza Vieira
- Special Mention for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Mexico City for The Lakes Project
- Special Prize for Best National Participation: Netherlands
- Special Prize for Best Architectural Works Patron: Zhang Xin
- Special Prize for Best government Sponsorship: Barcelona
|
[2] |
| 9th |
2004 |
Kurt W. Forster |
METAMORPH |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Peter Eisenman
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Belgium with Kinshasa, the Imaginary City
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Studio SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa)
|
[2] |
| 10th |
2006 |
Ricky Burdett |
Cities, architecture and society |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Richard Rogers
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Denmark with CO-EVOLUTION, curated by Henrik Valeur and UiD
- Golden Lion for the City: Bogotá, Colombia
- Golden Lion for Best Urban Projects: Higuera + Sanchez for the Brazil 44 project in Mexico City
|
[3] |
| 11th |
2008 |
Aaron Betsky |
Out There: Architecture Beyond Building |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Frank Gehry
- Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to a Historian of Architecture: James S. Ackerman
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Poland with Hotel Polonia. The Afterlife of Buildings, curated by Nicolas Grospierre and Kobas Laksa
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Greg Lynn Form for Recycled Toys Furniture
- Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect in the International Exhibition: Elemental
|
[4] |
| 12th |
2010 |
Kazuyo Sejima |
People Meet in Architecture |
|
[4] |
| 13th |
2012 |
David Chipperfield |
Common Ground |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Alvaro Siza
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Japan with Architecture, possible here? Home-for-All, curated by Toyo Ito, Kumiko Inui, Sou Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Naoya Hatakeyama.
- Golden Lion for Best Interpretation of the International Exhibition: Urban-Think Tank (Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner), Justin McGuirk, and Iwan Baan
- Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect in the International Exhibition: Grafton Architects (Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara)
- Special Mentions: Poland, commissioner Hanna Wróblewska; United States of America, commissioner Cathy Lang Ho; Russia, commissioner Grigory Revzin; Cino Zucchi.
|
[4] |
| 14th |
2014 |
Rem Koolhaas |
Fundamentals |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Phyllis Lambert
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: South Korea with Crow's Eye View, curated by Minsuk Cho, Hyungmin Pai, and Changmo Ahn.
- Silver Lion for Best National Participation: Chile with Monolith Controversies, curated by Pedro Alonso and Hugo Palmarola.
- Silver Lion for Best Research Project of the Monditalia section: Andrés Jaque for Sales Oddity
- Special Mentions to National Participations: Canada, France, Russia
- Special Mentions to Research Projects of the Monditalia section: Radical Pedagogies by Beatriz Colomina, Britt Eversole, Ignacio Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, Anna-Maria Meister, Federica Vannucchi, Amunátegui Valdés Architects, Smog.tv; Intermundia by Ana Dana Beroš; Italian Limes by Folder
|
[5] |
| 15th |
2016 |
Alejandro Aravena |
Reporting from the Front |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Spain with Unfinished, curated by Iñaqui Carnicero and Carlos Quintáns.
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Breaking The Siege, curated by Gabinete de Arquitectura (Solano Benitez and Gloria Cabral)
|
|
| 16th |
2018 |
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara |
FREESPACE |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Kenneth Frampton
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Switzerland, with Svizzera 240, House Tour, curated by Alessandro Bosshard, Li Tavor, Matthew van der Ploeg, Ani Vihervaara.
- Special Mention for Best National Participation: Great Britain, with Island by Caruso St John Architects and Marcus Taylor
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Souto Moura Arquitectos + Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal).
- Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect in the International Exhibition: architecten de Vylder Vinck Taillie
- Special Mentions: Andra Matin and Rahul Mehrotra
|
|
| 17th |
2021 |
Hashim Sarkis |
How Will We Live Together? |
- Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Lina Bo Bardi
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: United Arab Emirates, with Wetland.
- Special mention as National Participation: Russia, with Open!
- Special mention as National Participation: Philippines, with Structures of Mutual Support.
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: raumlaborberlin with Instances of Urban Practice. (Germany)
- Silver Lion for a Promising Young Architect in the International Exhibition Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory with Border Ecologies and the Gaza Strip (Netherlands)
- Special Mention for Participation in the International Exhibition: cave_bureau with The Anthropocene Museum: Exhibit 3.0 Obsidian Rain (Kenya)
|
[6] |
| 18th |
2023 |
Lesley Lokko |
The Laboratory of the Future |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Demas Nwoko
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Brazil with Terra, curated by Gabriela de Matos and Paulo Tavares
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: DAAR – Alessandro Petti and Sandi Hilal.
|
[7] |
| 19th |
2025 |
Carlo Ratti |
Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective |
- Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement: Donna Haraway
- Special Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Memoriam: Italo Rota
- Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Bahrain with Heatwave, curated by Andrea Faraguna
- Special Mention for Best National Participation: Holy See with Opera Aperta, curated by Marina Otero Verzier, Giovanna Zabotti, Tatiana Bilbao, MAIO Architects
- Special Mention for Best National Participation: Great Britain with GBR: Geology of Britannic Repair, curated by Owen Hopkins, Kathryn Yusoff, Kabage Karanja, Stella Muteg
- Golden Lion for Best Participation in the International Exhibition: Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Natural Systems Utilities, SODAI, Aaron Betsky, and Davide Oldani with Canal Café.
- Special Mention for Participation in the International Exhibition: Tosin Oshinowo with Alternative Urbanism: The Central Organized Markets of Lagos
- Special Mention for Participation in the International Exhibition: Boonserm Premthada with Elephant Chapel.
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