2024-12-22T19:43:44-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/39001707/luis-moreno-mansilla-passed-away facdat 2012-02-22T18:35:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/o8/o8uh41ue64ejyjvk.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Spanish architect Luis Moreno Mansilla has passed away at the age of 53. Mansilla was a founding partner of Mansilla+Tu&ntilde;&oacute;n, whose work includes the Fine Arts Museum in Castell&oacute;n, the Auditorium of Leon, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Leon MUSAC, which received the Mies van der Rohe Prize. Mansilla, was a professor at the School of Architecture in Madrid, and had been a Visiting Professor at Princeton University.</p></em><br /><br /><p> This is incredibly sad. He was part of the most promising office in Spain. I saw him lecturing in Princeton while I was a student there, and he was extremely intelligent. But most of all he was a very kind soul, something difficult to find these days in this business. &nbsp;</p>