The Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1992, has been awarded the National Architecture Prize 2019, endowed with 60,000 euros and promoted by the Ministry of Development.

The current Minister of Public Works, José Luis Ábalos, has communicated to the winner the final decision of the jury, gathered in Cuenca in the framework of the International Architecture and Landscape Congress organized by the College of Architects of Cuenca and that counts in this edition with Portugal As a guest country.

In a message on his Twitter account, the head of Development has stressed that it is an architect "recognized worldwide" and has valued his contribution "to the architecture and Spanish cities."

Born in Matosinhos in 1933, he studied Architecture at the Superior School of Fine Arts in Porto between 1949 and 1955. In Spain he has built among many other buildings the Meteorological Center of the Olympic Village in Barcelona; Cádiz Social Housing ; the Faculty of Information Sciences of Santiago de Compostela; the Rectorship of the University of Alicante; or the Zaida Building in Granada.

He is the author of numerous other projects among which the Housing in the Barrio de la Malagueira in Évora stands out; the Faculty of Architecture of Porto; the Parish Center of Marco de Canavezes; the Portugal Pavilion for the EXPO'98 in Lisbon; the Portugal Pavilion at the EXPO'2000 in Hanover (with Souto de Moura); the Museum of Contemporary Art of Naples; the Wineries in Campo Mayor or the recent Anyang Pavilion in South Korea.

Its endless list of Awards and Distinctions include the Architecture Prize of the International Association of Art Critics (1982), the Architecture Prize of the Association of Portuguese Architects (1987), the Gold Medal of Architecture of the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (1988), the Mies van der Rohe Prize or the Pritzker of the Hyatt Foundation of Chicago for the whole of his work (1992).

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