Jose Rafael Moneo Valles

Professor Rafael Moneo is the Josep Lluis Sert Professor in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design after teaching at Escuela Técnica Superior of Barcelona and Madrid. He has developed an extensive body of work as an architectural critic and theoretician and has lectured all over the world. Among his best known and most widely published works are the central offices of the Bankinter Bank in Madrid (collaboration with Ramon Bescos, 1973-76), the National Museum of Roman Art, Merida (1980-86); the San pablo Airport in Seville (1987-92), the Atocha Railway Station in Madrid (1985-92), the transformation of the Villahermosa Palace in madrid into the museum now housing the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection (1989-92), the Pilar and Joan Miro Foundation in palma de Mallorca (1987-92), and the Davis Art museum of Wellesley College in Massachusetts (1990-93). Moneo has been awarded the Gold Medal by the Spanish government, the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Prince of Viana Prize (Spain), the Swedish Schock Price for the Visual Arts and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal. In 1996, he received the UIA Gold Medal and the Pritzker Prize.