Eduardo Elisio Machado Souto De Moura

ICAR/14 - Architectural and urban design

Eduardo Souto de Moura was born in Porto in 1952. In 1980 he graduated in Architecture from the EscolaSuperior de BelasArtes. Between 1974 and 1979 he collaborated with ÁlvaroSiza and his assistant at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he became a professor in 1990. He has also taught Architecture in Geneva, at Paris-Belleville, Harvard University, Dublin, ETH Zurich, Lausanne and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. Since 2014 he has been a full professor at the Mantua Campus of the Politecnico di Milano.

To date, Eduardo Souto de Moura has designed over 60 buildings in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and Switzerland: an internationally renowned career which led to him being awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2011.

His works include the Knowledge of the Seas Pavilion, designed for the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition, the Portugal Pavilion at the 2000 Hanover World Exposition, the Cinema House for Manoel de Oliveira, Porto (1998-2002), Porto’s Transport and Communications Museum (1993-2002), renovation of the Santa Maria do Bouro Convent (1989-1997), the Municipal Stadium of Braga (2000-2004), the Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais, Bragança (2002-2008), the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais (2005-2009), in addition to many private residences and villas. His works have garnered a great deal of attention in specialist architectural magazines, from Casabella to elCroquis, as well as volumes of essays and exhibitions.