Rafael Moneo of Spain National Architecture Award 2015 – W Radio

Madrid April 8 (EFE) .- The architect Rafael Moneo -Pritzker 1996- was today awarded the National Architecture Award 2015 of Spain for the quality of his work, internationally recognized for his contribution to architectural thinking and its teaching at the most prestigious universities around the world.

the prize, worth 60,000 euros ($ 68,000), it is awarded by the Ministry of Development, a proposal by a jury, among others, by architects Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Lluís Clotet, Angela Garcia de Paredes Falla and Rafael de La-Hoz Castanys.

Born in Tudela (Navarra) in 1937, Rafael Moneo studied at the School of Architecture of Madrid, majoring in 1961. in 1970 became professor of Elements of Composition at the School of Architecture of Barcelona and in 1980 was responsible for Madrid until 1985, the year he was named president of the School of Design at Harvard University, a position he held until 1990.

in Spain, Moneo has designed, among others, the Museum of Roman Art in Merida (1986), the Atocha station in Madrid (1992), the Kursaal in San Sebastian (1999) the extension of the Museo del Prado (2006) or the New Museum of Roman Theatre in Cartagena (2008).

his international projects include the Museum of Modern Art and Architecture in Stockholm (1998), the Hotel and Office building in Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (1993-1998), the cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (USA, 1996), the Library of the University of Louvain (Belgium, 1998) and expansion of the Museum Fine Arts, Houston (2000).

Among the latest projects of Rafael Moneo, now a professor at Harvard, highlight the LISE building (Laboratory for science and engineering) at the University of Harvard, Cambridge (2007) or Laboratories for Novartis in Basel, Switzerland (2009).

Rafael Moneo’s activity as an architect is accompanied by developing as a lecturer and critic. Co-founder of the magazine Architectures Bis, the writings of Rafael Moneo have been published in numerous professional journals and presented at exhibitions and conferences in different parts of the world.

In 2005 he published “theoretical Restlessness and strategy proyectual in the work of eight contemporary architects “book translated into seven languages, and in September 2010 came to light works” Notes on 21 works “and” Remarks on 21 works “. EFE