Souto Moura won the Pritzker prize 2011
Souto Moura won the Pritzker prize 2011
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The architect Eduardo Souto Moura won the Pritzker prize 2011, what is come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor. This is the second time on the history of the prize that a Portuguese architect has been chosen . The first was in 1992 when it was granted to Alvaro Siza, with whom Souto Moura worked for five years as a student.
According to the Pritzker Prize’s jury, Souto Moura has produced a body of work that is of our time but also carries echoes of architectural traditions. His buildings have a unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics — power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and a sense of intimacy —at the same time.” Since forming his own office in 1980, Souto Moura has completed well over sixty projects, most in his native Portugal, but he has designs in Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Among his works the jury distinguished Braga Football stadium and calls this work, “...muscular, monumental and very much at home within its powerful landscape.” In the city where he lives and works, Porto, we find other projects, like the Burgo Tower, described by the jury as “...two buildings side by side, one vertical and one horizontal with different scales, in dialogue with each other and the urban landscape” and Casa das Artes, a Cultural Center which the jury describes as “a testament to his ability to combine materials expressively.” He used copper, stone, concrete and wood.
A convent and monastery in a mountainous terrain near Amares, called Santa Maria do Bouro originally built in the 12th century, was converted into a state inn in conformity with the project by Souto Moura. The jury declares in their citation that he “has created spaces that are both consistent with their history and modern in conception.”
One of his most recent projects is “Casa das Histórias Paula Rego” at Cascais, a museum that house a collection of paintings by Paula Rego. In the middle of a fenced off forest, this building is formed by a set of volumes of varying heights, where two large pyramids along the entrance axis prevent the project from being a neutral sum of boxes.
According to the Pritzker Prize’s jury, Souto Moura has produced a body of work that is of our time but also carries echoes of architectural traditions. His buildings have a unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics — power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and a sense of intimacy —at the same time.” Since forming his own office in 1980, Souto Moura has completed well over sixty projects, most in his native Portugal, but he has designs in Spain, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland.
Among his works the jury distinguished Braga Football stadium and calls this work, “...muscular, monumental and very much at home within its powerful landscape.” In the city where he lives and works, Porto, we find other projects, like the Burgo Tower, described by the jury as “...two buildings side by side, one vertical and one horizontal with different scales, in dialogue with each other and the urban landscape” and Casa das Artes, a Cultural Center which the jury describes as “a testament to his ability to combine materials expressively.” He used copper, stone, concrete and wood.
A convent and monastery in a mountainous terrain near Amares, called Santa Maria do Bouro originally built in the 12th century, was converted into a state inn in conformity with the project by Souto Moura. The jury declares in their citation that he “has created spaces that are both consistent with their history and modern in conception.”
One of his most recent projects is “Casa das Histórias Paula Rego” at Cascais, a museum that house a collection of paintings by Paula Rego. In the middle of a fenced off forest, this building is formed by a set of volumes of varying heights, where two large pyramids along the entrance axis prevent the project from being a neutral sum of boxes.
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