Stefano Boeri​ honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Madrid Design Festival

Stefano Boeri has been awarded one of the highest honors available in Spain’s architectural community after being named the winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Madrid Design Festival, an event now in its sixth year. The noted architect of Milan’s Bosco Verticale and other similar biophilic designs in Europe and Asia. Boeri was presented with the award by his close colleague Rafael Moneo, a man he, in turn, praised as being a “great and sophisticated protagonist of contemporary architecture.” "I am both excited and embarrassed to receive this award today,” he began in an acceptance speech from the nstitución Libre de Enseñanza (or ILE). “First of all because, like all awards to an individual, there is always a reason for injustice in the exclusion of all those who deserve with me to share it, having shared years and years of projects, ideas and experiences with me. I actually feel like a good editor-in-chief, capable perhaps above all of choosing the people who work with me well and putting them in the best conditions to express their incredible talent. Perhaps it is true that paradoxically the best form of selfishness is generosity. The second reason for my emotion is to receive this award, for which I thank the Madrid Design Festival and its team, from the hands of Rafael Moneo.”Read the full post on Bustler