Eduardo Souto de Moura on his practice
Monday 26 November, 2012
6:30pm, $0
Columbia University, Wood Auditorium
1172 Amsterdam Avenue
Eduardo Souto de Moura is a Portuguese architect who blends modernism with tradition and history. Souto de Moura is known for incorporating local history, context and landscape into his work. The jury praised his buildings for having "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."
In Western Europe he has designed everything from homes to museums to a stadium in Braga, Portugal. One side of the stadium ends at a mountain — the architect had the rock dynamited with artistic precision, blending the crushed granite into the stadium's concrete. The Pritzker jury described the stadium as "muscular, monumental and very much at home within its powerful landscape."
Hosted by Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
In Western Europe he has designed everything from homes to museums to a stadium in Braga, Portugal. One side of the stadium ends at a mountain — the architect had the rock dynamited with artistic precision, blending the crushed granite into the stadium's concrete. The Pritzker jury described the stadium as "muscular, monumental and very much at home within its powerful landscape."
Hosted by Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.