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Eduardo Souto de Moura - The Pritzker Architecture Prize 2011

During the past three decades, the Portuguese architect Eduardo Souta de Moura has produced a body of work that is of our time, but also carries echoes of architectural traditions. His oeuvre is convincing proof of modern idioms expressive potential and adaptability to distinct local situations. Always mindful of context, understood in the broadest sense, and grounded in place, time, and function, Souto de Moura s architecture reinforces a sense of history while expanding the range of contemporary expression. Eduardo Souto de Moura s architecture is not obvious, frivolous, or picturesque. It is imbued with intelligence and seriousness. His work requires an intense encounter not a quick glance. And like poetry, it is able to communicate emotionally to those who take the time to listen. His buildings have a unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics - power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and sense of intimacy - at the same time. For architecture that appears effortless, serene, and simple, and for the care and poetry that permeates each project.

.bak gordon

The work of Ricardo Bak Gordon, who despite his youth is already a revered name in Portuguese architecture. This book presents the work of Ricardo Bak Gordon, who despite his youth is already a revered name in Portuguese architecture. It includes sketches, plans, photographs of models and built work as well as interviews by the architect and critic, Ricardo Carvalho. His projects include houses and apartments in Sintra, Leiria, Loulé, Tavira Olhão, Lisbon and Cascais as well as the Portuguese Ambassador s residence in Brasilia. Ricardo Bak Gordon was born in 1967 in Lisbon. He studied at the school of architecture in Oporto and at the Polytechnic in Milan. After graduating in 1990 he opened a studio together with the architect Carlos Vilela Lúcio. In 2000, he opened his own office: Bak Gordon.