Rafael Moneo

Rafael Moneo

José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9, 1937) is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid (UPM) from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oíza. He has taught architecture at various locations around the world and from 1985 to 1990 was the chairman of Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is the first Josep Lluís Sert Professor of Architecture. [ [http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/people/faculty/moneo/ "José Rafael Moneo: Faculty Profile"] . Harvard Graduate School of Design. Accessed 22 December 2007.] In 1997, he became Academic Numerary in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid in May 1997.

Spanish constructions of his design include the renovation of the Villahermosa Palace (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum) in Madrid, the National Museum of Roman Art in Mérida, Spain, an expansion of the Atocha Railway Station (also in Madrid), the Diestre Factory in Zaragoza, Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation in Majorca the headquarters of the Bankinter (again, in Madrid), Town Hall in Logroño. He also designed the annex to the Murcia Town Hall, which was completed in 1998. [Gonzalo Herrero Delicado. [http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/murciacityhall/index.htm "Murcia City Hall, Murcia, Spain: José Rafael Moneo 1998"] . Galinsky. 2006.] His latest work is the enlargement of the Prado Museum, its greatest expansion in 200 years of history.

Some of Moneo's prominent works in the US include the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, the Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the Audrey Jones Beck Building (an expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston). Moneo also designed the Chace Center, a new building for the Rhode Island School of Design. [ [http://www.risd.edu/campus_initiatives_risd.htm "Campus Initiatives: The Chace Center"] ]

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* [http://departmentofscience.com/chace-center-at-risd/ Architectural renderings of the Chace Center] (early stages of design)
* [http://urbanity.blogsome.com/2006/03/05/hospital-materno-infantil-madrid-rafael-moneo-y-jm-de-la-mata/ Children's Hospital of Madrid]
* [http://www.cns.fas.harvard.edu/about/lise.php Harvard University Laboratory for Interface Science and Engineering]
* [http://people.deas.harvard.edu/~jones/lab_arch/moneo/pic_gallery.html The Moneo Gallery: Works of José Rafael Moneo Vallés]
* "Prado museum [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/01/arts/EU-A-E-ART-Spain-Prado-Extension.php unveils spacious new extension"] (2 April 2007)
* [http://www.pritzkerprize.com/secone96.htm Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate]
* [http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Rafael_Moneo.html Short biography at www.greatbuildings.com]
* [http://www.risd.edu/campus_initiatives_risd.htm RISD Initiatives: The Chace Center]


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