Portuguese Architect Eduardo Souto de Moura Wins 2011 Pritzker Prize

Like we said last week when the shortlist was released for the Mies van der Rohe Award, ’tis the season for big architecture prize announcements. Early this week and we already have a winner named for one of the biggest. Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named the winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize. His name might not be immediately recognizable to Americans, compared to former Prtizker winners like Renzo Piano or Rem Koolhaas, as most his work has largely been in his native Portugal (though you may remember back in 2005 when he collaborated with his former boss and now-fellow Portuguese Pritzker-winner, Alvaro Siza, on that