The Venice Biennale has announced that architect and philanthropist Phyllis Lambert will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement next month, joining A+ Lifetime Achievement Award winner Denise Scott Brown among the lineup of women in architecture receiving long-overdue recognition in [recent weeks].

Paolo Baratta, chair of the Venice Biennale Board, and Rem Koolhaas, director of the Architecture Biennale, explained their decision:

“Not as an architect, but as a client and custodian, Phyllis Lambert has made a huge contribution to architecture. Without her participation, one of the few realizations in the 20th century of perfection on earth – the Seagram Building in New York – would not have happened. Her creation of the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal combines rare vision with rare generosity to preserve crucial episodes of architecture’s heritage and to study them under ideal conditions. Architects make architecture; Phyllis Lambert made architects…”

Reprinted in part from an article on Architizer.com. Read the full article here.