President Barack Obama Salutes Eduardo Souto de Moura: Winner of Top Architecture Prize

WASHINGTON (AP).- President Barack Obama praised the winner of a top architecture prize Thursday for embodying a style that is, in his words, as “effortless as it is beautiful.” Obama lauded Eduardo Souto de Moura of Portugal at an awards ceremony where de Moura was receiving the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize. The esteemed prize is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for architecture. De Moura has won acclaim for his careful use of natural materials and unexpected dashes of [...]

Portuguese Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is This Year’s Winner of the Pritzker Prize

CHICAGO, IL (REUTERS).- Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura is the winner of this year’s $100,000 Pritzker Prize for his designs that convey both “power and modesty, bravado and subtlety,” the foundation that awards the prize said on Monday. The honor, often dubbed the Nobel prize for architecture, was supposed to be announced next month and presented in Washington, D.C., but was prematurely reported by a news outlet, according to a spokesman. Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura speaks during a [...]