Souto de Moura en su oficina de Oporto, abril de 2025. (Foto: Shun Kambe, ©Japan Art Association)
The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named a new recipient of the Praemium Imperiale, a prestigious annual accolade given by the Japan Art Association in five artistic disciplines, Architecture included. It comes with a prize of 15 million yen – approximately 92,000 euros – per category.
This year’s other four awardees are: Peter Doig for Painting, Marina Abramović for Sculpture, András Schiff for Music, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for Theater/Film.
After forty-five years of work, that same number of projects by Eduardo Souto de Moura (Porto, 1952) are presented by Arquitectura Viva in a 344-page hardbound book – with Spanish and English texts side by side – that attests to a fine craft describable as both intensely local and open to the world. resueltamente abierto al mundo.
Luis Fernández-Galiano: Eduardo Souto de Moura. La abstracción material
