Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes 2012

BIOGRAPHY

Considered one of the leading avant-garde architects, Rafael Moneo was born in Tudela, Navarra, in 1937. He graduated from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1961, working during his student years with Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, 1993 Prince of Asturias Laureate for the Arts, and the Danish architect Jorn Utzon.

He lectured at the Higher Technical Schools of Architecture of Madrid and Barcelona, combining architectural design with teaching. He worked in New York from 1976 on, at the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, while also teaching at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. He likewise lectured at the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (Switzerland) and at the American universities of Princeton and Harvard. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University between 1985 and 1990, where he currently lectures in addition to being the first Josep Lluis Sert Professor in Architecture.

1991 1992 1993 1993 1996 1996 1996 1998 2001 2003 2006 2012

AWARDS

He has won the most prestigious international awards in architecture, such as the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize (1993) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Schock Prize in Visual Arts (1993) awarded in Stockholm, the Pritzker Prize (1996), the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (1998) awarded by the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and the Mies van der Rohe Award (2001) conferred in Barcelona.

He holds gold medals from the Spanish Academy of Fine Arts (1992), the France Academy of Architecture (1996), the International Union of Architects (1996), the Royal Institute of British Architects (2003) and the Higher Council of Architects' Colleges of Spain (2006). Holder of honorary doctorates from the University of Louvain, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne and the University of Navarra, he is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Saint Luke in Rome and the Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.

MINUTES OF THE JURY

At its meeting held in Oviedo, the Jury for the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts, composed of Mr Carlos Fitz-James Stuart Martínez de Irujo, Duke of Huéscar, Mr José Luis Garci Muñoz, Mr Guillermo García-Alcalde Fernández, Mr Enrique González Macho, Mr Emilio Marcos Vallaure, Mr Hans Meinke Paege, Mr Benigno Pendás García, Ms Benedetta Tagliabue, Ms Amelia Valcárcel Bernaldo de Quirós, Mr Benjamin Weil, Mr Miguel Zugaza Miranda, chaired by Mr José Lladó Fernández-Urrutia and with Mr José Antonio Caicoya Cores acting as secretary, has decided to confer the 2012 Prince of Asturias Prize for the Arts on Rafael Moneo Vallés, a Spanish architect of universal scope whose work enriches urban spaces with an architecture that is serene and meticulous.

An acknowledged master in both the academic and professional field, Moneo leaves his own mark on each of his creations, at the same time as combining aesthetics with functionality, especially in the airy interiors that act as impeccable settings for great works of culture and the spirit.

Oviedo, 9th May 2012

 
 

Northwest Corner Building Columbia University , NY , 2005-2010

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Atocha railway station Madrid 1984-1992

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Museum of Roman Art Mérida 1980-1986

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Murcia City Hall Murcia , 1991-1998

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BANKINTER Madrid 1972-1977

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Expansion of the Prado Museum Madrid 1998-2007

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FOUNDATION PILAR Y JOAN MIRÓ Palma de Mallorca , 1987-1992

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KURSAAL AUDITORIUM AND CONGRESS CENTER San Sebastián , 1990-1999

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Cathedral of Our Lady in Los Angeles Los Ángeles, 1996-2002

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