Eduardo Souto de Moura wins 2019 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize


The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura as the the 2019 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize winner. Started in 1955, the prize awards US$20,000 to an architect of any nationality who has made a significant contribution to architecture as an art. Previous winners of the last few years include Phyllis LambertSheila O'Donnell and John TuomeyAlberto Campo BaezaKathryn Gustafson, and Diébédo Francis Kéré.

Selected from a group of 33 nominated individuals, the Pritzker Prize winning architect was recognized for an architecture that is described by the jury chair, Annabelle Selldorf, as "[feeling] inevitable" and having a "timeless and profoundly humanist quality."  He was honored for a body of work that includes notable projects such as the Estádio Municipal de Braga in Braga, Portugal (2003), the Burgo Tower in Burgo, Portugal (2007), and the Paula Rego Museum in Cascais, Portugal (2009). Annabelle Selldorf, chair of the jury, ...

Mackenzie Goldberg via Archinect - News http://bit.ly/2DimM0z

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