Spanish architect Rafael Moneo has been awarded the RIBA Gold Medal. Already one of the favourites last year – the prize went instead to Archigram – Moneo now joins the long and prestigious list of architects who have for over a century been recognised for their lifetime’s achievement. A list which includes Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe and James Stirling.
“Few architects have built so extensively on both sides of the Atlantic as Rafael Moneo”, stated RIBA president Paul Hyett, when the decision was announced. “He brings to all his projects, be they a bank or a museum, a station or a cultural centre, the same minute attention to detail, the same clarity”.
Sixty five year old Rafael Moneo has also received a number of other awards including the Pritzker Prize and the UIA Gold Medal (both in 1996) and has designed the majestic new Cathedral of Los Angeles which has received much attention. Designer also of the National Museum of Roman Art in Merida and the extension of the Fine Art Museum in Houston by Mies van der Rohe. And the runners up? Robert Venturi and Alvaro Siza.
Sixty five year old Rafael Moneo has also received a number of other awards including the Pritzker Prize and the UIA Gold Medal
