It is been called “architecture’s Nobel,” and with good cause: The Pritzker Prize regularly honors the top living architects, with previous winners including Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and several other illustrious names in the area. The statement of the 2011 receiver of today shows this year isn’t a exception, with Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura using the honors.
Probably the most famous job in his oeuvre, the Braga Stadium in Portugal was explained by the choice jury as “…muscle, massive and very much in the home within its strong landscape.”
Souto de Moura’s jobs vary from family dwellings in his native state, mostly to metros, museums, arenas and much more. This home, called Home Number 2, is found in the city of Bom Jesus.
It had been commended by the Pritzker jury members for its “unusual abundance through the subtle banding in the concrete of its own outdoor walls.”
Assembled right into a hill, the house showcases Souto de Moura’s power in dealing using the surrounding landscape of a task. As an alternative to putting the house in addition to the hill-side, five patios with walls were constructed, each having a unique function.
As the architect describes it, “fruit-trees [are] on the bottom degree, a pool to the next, the key areas of your home to the next, bedrooms to the fourth, as well as on the very best, we put a woods.”
Light streams via a wall of windows inside Home Amount Two.
Souto de Moura selected reddish concrete to the woods enclosing the website as a contrast for the outside of the Paulo Rego Museum in Cascais. In order to additional set the the area aside, he employed 2 pyramind–like contours to, as he describes it, “stop the job from really being a neutral total of containers.”
Souto d-e Moura first created his title creating single-family properties, for example that one in Serra da Arrábida, Portugal.
“In their evident proper simplicity, Souto d-e Moura’s structures weave together elaborate references to the features of the area, landscape, website, and more extensive architectural background,” claims the jury.
The jury noted Souto d-e Moura’s capability to create “spaces which might be both consistent using their background and modern in concept.” Here, the architect converted the generations-aged monastery and convent
Souto d e Moura used copper, rock, concrete and wood to generate the
“Casa das Artes” S.E.C. Cultural Middle in his home town of Porto, Portugal. The jury commended the architect’s “ability to join stuff expressively.”
Congratulations to Eduardo Souto d e Moura on this momentous accomplishment
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