Portuguese Eduardo Soutoux de Moura (Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura, b. 07/25/1952), the winner of the Pritzcoreor Prize - the famous master of "slow" architecture.

The prestigious international award - the Pritzker Prize - architectural "Oscar", preserves its reputation, if it meets the conditions of large-scale architecture, and better forms it. It is noticed that after the world financial crisis broke out, the Pritzkers get restrained, quiet and self-deepened creators. Swiss intellectual Peter Zumtor in 2009, in 2010 - Japanese aesthetes Kazuo Sejima and Ryu Nishizawa. The choice of Eduard South de Moura was another step towards a new modesty.

Stadium in Braga.

Eduard South de Moura is clearly not an international star. Although he has buildings in Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and even Great Britain, but the main ideas are implemented in his native Portugal. They are highly appreciated by architects, but Soutoux Moura doesn’t have any projects promoted to the rank of national landmark. Of course, a special one with football fans. In 2004, the World Cup was held at the Braga city stadium. At each broadcast, the cameras slid along a spectacular brown rock, which South left behind as one of the walls of the stadium.

Social housing in Ponti de Lima.

He is also famous for concrete structures. Brutal and expressive, they resemble the aesthetics of Oscar Niemeyer. On account of the architect several private houses. Many are designed for friends, so they reflect more the desire to create conditions for a comfortable life than to get into the press. In Amares, he remade the building of the monastery of the XII century at the temple of Santa Maria do Bouro in the State Inn hotel (1989-1997). One characteristic detail: many Edward projects were delayed for many years. In the poorest country in Europe, everything is done slowly, with meager budgets, but as a result, the quality of the architecture does not suffer. Portugal never has enough money for the external effect, and neither street life nor architecture have anything in common with the abomination of desolation and lumpen poverty.

Paulo Museum Ragon Kaşkayşe, 2009.

EDOUARDO SOUTO DE MOURA Born in 1952 in Porto. Pupil of the famous architect Alvar Siza, in whose office he worked from 1974 to 1979. Winner of several national awards. The three most famous buildings are the Braga Stadium (Estádio Municipal de Braga), the office building (Burgo Empreendimento), the Paula Rego Museum (Paula Rego Museum 2009) in Cascais. Married, has three daughters. Two of them devoted themselves to architecture.

So, Eduardo Soutu da Moura was born in Porto in 1952. In the family of an ophthalmologist. He began his studies at the school of fine arts as a sculptor, but then moved to the architecture class. The reason for the transition was a meeting in Zurich with conceptualist Donald Judd. While still a student, he began working in the workshop at Alvaro Siza. After serving two years in the army, he received an order for designing the Cultural Center (Casa das Artes, 1981–1991) in Porto, and so began his career as an independent architect. I never refused to work as a visiting professor and lectured to students in Lausanne, Zurich and Harvard. Through teaching, he met many stars, including Aldo Rossi and Jacques Herzog. He studied in detail the work of his idol Mies van der Rohe. The most obvious example of influence is the Burgo Tower (1991–2007), an IBM building.

Office building Burgo Empreendimento in Porto.

Saute de Mouru is commended for using local Portuguese materials - granite, wood, marble, steel, concrete - and unexpected color solutions. The brick-red pyramids of the museum of the painter Paula Rego in the aristocratic resort of Cascais the architect himself explains by searching for a contrasting tone to the surrounding landscape. And the colors of the local coast are incredibly exquisite. Green trees, bushes, mosses, covering rocks, give all shades - from acid "lime" to emerald and gray-blue. Creativity South de Moura is not by chance called the slow architecture. And it is built slowly, and it requires enough time to feel and perceive it. The word slow is very popular today. Slow food, slow-living, the slower and more detailed processes are, the more fashionable they are.