Eduardo Souto de Moura (born 1952) is a Portuguese architect from Porto who received the Pritzker Prize in 2011 and the Wolf Prize in 2013. He studied sculpture before turning to architecture at the Porto School, where he later became a professor, and from 1974 to 1979 worked with Álvaro Siza, who encouraged him to start his own firm. He set up on his own in 1980 after winning the competition for the Casa das Artes in Porto. His early commissions were mostly modest houses in Portugal; later came shopping centres, schools, galleries and a cinema across Europe.
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Between 1989 and 1997 he spent eight years turning a half-ruined 12th-century monastery in Amares into the Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro (1997). The Braga Municipal Stadium (2003), built for Euro 2004, was carved out of a hillside quarry, so that one end of the pitch faces a wall of bare rock. The Burgo Tower in Porto (2007) followed, and the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego in Cascais (2009), with its two pyramid-shaped towers in red concrete, draws on the region's historic buildings, above all the nearby Palace of Sintra.
