Eduardo Souto de Moura
Architect & Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate for 2011, Portugal
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Architect & Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate for 2011, Portugal
Last updated: April 05, 2024 Porto, Portugal
He was a keynote speaker at the 1st Holcim Forum 2004 held at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
For me, architecture is a global issue. There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture, no sustainable architecture—there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must not neglect; for example, energy, resources, costs, social aspects—one must always pay attention to all these. Eduardo Souto de Moura 1st Holcim Forum 2004
Eduardo Souto de Moura was professor at Universidade do Porto, and a visiting professor at Geneva, Paris-Belleville, Harvard, Dublin and the ETH Zurich and Lausanne.
Eduardo Souto de Moura's early years at the Italian School, Souto de Moura enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Porto, where he began as an art student, studying sculpture, but eventually achieving his degree in architecture. While still a student, he worked for architect Noé Dinis and then Álvaro Siza, the latter for five years. While studying and working with his professor of urbanism, Architect Fernandes de Sá, he received his first commission, a market project in Braga which has since been demolished because of changing business patterns.
His work includes Braga Municipal Stadium (2003) which received the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for best new global design in 2006, Torre do Burgo (2006), Casa das Histórias Paula Rego (2008), House in the Sierra de Arrabida (2017-19), and Exhibition Hall in Bruges.
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