Álvaro Siza Vieira can add another award to his extensive list of global honors. The Portuguese master has just been awarded Spain's 2019 National Architecture Prize, announced during the II International Congress "Art, City, and Landscape," which concludes today in Cuenca with Portugal as the guest country.
The National Architecture Prize has been awarded annually by the Spanish government since 1932. José Luis Ábalos, Spain's Minister of Development, celebrated the decision on social media: "I have just informed Álvaro Siza that he has been awarded the 2019 National Architecture Prize. A globally renowned Portuguese architect who has contributed so much to Spanish architecture and cities," he wrote on Twitter.
Alongside an extensive body of work in Portugal and, more recently, Asia, Siza has built several projects in Spain. These include the Meteorological Center in Barcelona's Olympic Village, social housing in Cádiz, the Faculty of Information Sciences in Santiago de Compostela, the Rectorate of the University of Alicante, and the Zaida Building in Granada.
Siza is one of the world's most prestigious architects, whose honors include the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) Architecture Prize (1982), the Portuguese Architects Association Award (1987), the Gold Medal from the Higher Council of Spanish Architects (1988), the Mies van der Rohe Award (1988), the Chiado district renovation project in Lisbon (1992), and the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Source: Expresso.
This article was written by Romullo Baratto. The translation is powered by AI.
