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Rafael Moneo
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José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to == 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza. He has taught architecture at various locations around the world and from 1985 to 1990 was the chairman of Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1997, he became Academic Numerary in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in May 1997.
Spanish constructions of his design include the renovation of the Villahermosa Palace in Madrid, the National Museum of Roman Art ==
in Mérida, Spain, an expansion of the Atocha Railway Station (also in Madrid), the Diestre Factory in Zaragoza, Pilar and Joan Miró Fundation in Mallorca the headquarters of the Bankinter (again, in Madrid), Town Hall in Logroño.
Some of Moneo's prominent works in the US include the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, the Charles Schwab GSB Housing at Stanford University, the Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Moneo also designed a building for Rhode Island School of Design, the Chace Center, that is expected to enter the construction phase in late 2006.
- "Prado museum unveils spacious new extension" (2 April 2007)
- RISD Initiatives: The Chace Center
- Architectural renderings of the Chace Center
- Children's Hospital of Madrid
- The Moneo Gallery: Works of José Rafael Moneo Vallés
- Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate
- Short biography at www.greatbuildings.com
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Schock Prize in Visual Arts 1993 |
Succeeded by Claes Oldenburg |
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| Johnson (1979) • Barragán (1980) • Stirling (1981) • Roche (1982) • Pei (1983) • Meier (1984) • Hollein (1985) • Böhm (1986) • Tange (1987) • Bunshaft/Niemeyer (1988) • Gehry (1989) • Rossi (1990) • Venturi (1991) • Siza (1992) • Maki (1993) • Portzamparc (1994) • Ando (1995) • Moneo (1996) • Fehn (1997) • Piano (1998) • Foster (1999) • Koolhaas (2000) • Herzog & de Meuron (2001) • Murcutt (2002) • Utzon (2003) • Hadid (2004) • Mayne (2005) • Mendes da Rocha (2006) • Rogers (2007) |
