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| Mendez Da Rocha (Photo courtesy Paulo Mendes Rocha) |
Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha has won the 2006 Pritzker Prize, the profession’s top honor. Cited by the jury for his “bold use of simple materials” and “deep understanding of the poetics of space,” Mendes da Rocha has done most of his designing for buildings in his base city of São Paolo. He is best known for the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, in São Paulo, completed in 1995 (shown at left). It is a complex of concrete plazas and partially buried galleries. At 77, Mendes da Rocha is the second Latin American to win the prize, which this year comes with a $100,000 grant. Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer won the award in 1988.
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