Eduardo Souto de Moura, Portuguese architect, wins 2011 Pritzker Prize [Updated]
Nobody can say Eduardo Souto de Moura is in Alvaro Siza's shadow any longer. Souto de Moura has won the 2011 Pritzker Prize.
The 58-year-old Portuguese architect, who worked in Siza's office for several years as a young architect, is the winner of this year's Pritzker, the field's most prestigious honor.
Souto de Moura has produced a varied body of public and private work but is probably best known for a stadium in Braga, Portugal, that was completed in 2004.
The Pritzer jury also singled out his House No. 2 in Bom Jesus, Portugal, for praise. Like Siza, who won the Pritzker in 1992, Souto de Moura works in Porto, Portugal's second-largest city.
[Update: Read more about the Pritzker selection this Critic's Notebook]
-- Christopher Hawthorne
Photo Eduardo Souto de Moura. Credit: Augusto Brázio
Well deserved! BTW: Is the Times never going to do a review of an astounding recent work by another Pritzker winner, the NYC skyscraper by one Frank Gehry?
Posted by: Charles J | March 28, 2011 at 01:42 PM