Andrea Zittel Named Winner of Kiesler Prize

California-based artist Andrea Zittel has been named the 2012 recipient of the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts. The 55,000-Euro award, given by the Republic of Austria and City of Vienna every two years, acknowledges "outstanding achievements in the field of architecture and the arts that conform to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental, innovative conceptions and his theory of correlated arts." The jury (Hermann Czech, Bartomeu Marí Ribas, Lisa Phillips, Hani Rashid, and Dietmar Steiner) praised her "expansive approach to art and space making, creating social sculptures that traverse boundaries between art, architecture, design and technology." Pictured is the A-Z Wagon Station located in the California desert, where Zittel has been transforming a 35-acre area under "A-Z designs for living."  jh