Eduardo Souto de Moura

Eduardo Souto de Moura Machado Elísio, also briefly Souto Moura ( born July 25, 1952 in Porto ) is a Portuguese architect.

He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Portuguese architecture from the ranks of the Escola do Porto. For his life's work, he holds the 2011 Pritzker Prize, the most important architectural prize awarded.

Life

During his architectural studies at the " Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto " ( ESBAP ), a division of Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto ( FAUP ), Souto de Moura studied with the renowned architect Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza Vieira. While Siza - who was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1992 - an international career started, Souto de Moura rather Northern Portugal was arrested, but soon developed his own style.

As a student, he worked as an architect in 1974 with Noé Dinis, 1975-1979 with Siza. From 1980 he ran his own architectural firm, a year later he surprised by at the Cultural Center of the State Secretariat of Culture ( Secretaria de Estado da Centro Cultural da Cultura ) could decide for themselves in Porto competition. The resulting scooped national and international reputation, he was able to consolidate again with the order for a new hotel in the historic center of Salzburg.

Souto Moura in 1981 became an assistant professor at the ESBAP in Porto, from 1991 professor. He has held visiting professorships at the École Nationale Supérieure d' Architecture de Paris -Belleville ( ENSAPB ), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the School of Architecture at University College Dublin, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne.

Souto de Moura lives and works in Porto.

Work

He wanted an early age give his buildings a certain mood to bring unnecessary items into the game without it. According to his own statement the wall for him is the central and supporting element of a building. From this foundation out for Souto de Moura of the stone is the most important building material. In addition to marble and granite natural stones as he also used concrete as artificial stone for the implementation of his design concepts.

Even as the decades of Salazar 's dictatorship, under which the architecture has been corrupted, Siza and Souto de Moura were among those who dared to start a new, artistically ambitious and yet populist architecture wanted, which should solve the pressing housing shortage, which also the small communities in the shadow of the larger cities opened up new possibilities. On the other hand, they wanted to establish the architecture as an art new to all the necessities just as well. The fact that Portugal is now in the contemporary building one of the most interesting countries in Europe, it also owes precisely this mix of social responsibility and an appreciation of art.

Souto de Moura is considered an intellectual who writes easy to read essays and books on architecture, which do not deplete as many works of his colleagues in the form of debates and superb photos. All too rarely are up to 2011 and the Pritzker Prize beyond the borders of Portugal also register and become effective.

Honors and Awards

  • SECIL architecture award
  • Prix ​​Biennal Iberoamericana for the Santa Maria do Bouro Inn project
  • Pessoa/98 Price
  • Gold medal for the Estádio Municipal de Braga, the International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities ( IAKS )
  • Finalist in the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture (2004) for the Estádio Municipal de Braga
  • Order of Merit
  • Order of Infante Dom Henrique (1985 )
  • Heinrich Tessenow Medal (2001)
  • Pritzker Prize (2011)
  • Honorary Doctor of the University of Aveiro (2011)
  • Wolf Prize (2012 )

Works (selection)

  • Nevogilde House 1 2 (1983 and 1985 )
  • Renovation and alteration of the Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro in Amares ( 1989-97 )
  • Institute of Geosciences, University of Aveiro ( 1990-94 )
  • Cultural Porto ( 1991)
  • Residential house in the Rua do Teatro, Foz do Douro, Porto ( 1992-95 )
  • Art Gallery Porto ( 1997)
  • Portuguese Pavilion at the Expo 2000 (2000)
  • Burgo Tower in Porto
  • Football stadium in Braga (2000)
  • Casa das Histórias Paula Rego (2005-2009) Museum in Cascais near Lisbon
  • Villa in Bom Jesus in Braga, 2007

In addition to these outstanding projects Souto de Moura has designed many residential and smaller public buildings. Also its design language carry most metro stations in Porto, which were built in recent times. His buildings are in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland.

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