Spain’s latest National Award for Architecture amounts to recognition of a career that began in the studio of Rafael Moneo, crystallized with overwhelming creativity in tandem with Luis Moreno Mansilla, and continues to bear fruit today with equal rigor and passion both within the profession and in academe. But this year’s National Award also honors an entire generation – that of architects born in the 1960s – which knew how to arm itself with personality without breaking its ties with the great masters, all the while also forging useful connections with younger generations in a world that had already changed so much for the profession. To acknowledge the work of Emilio Tuñón is to acknowledge one of the most impressive chapters of Spanish architecture, and Arquitectura Viva celebrates this.