Prolific Southern California architect Eric Owen Moss was announced as the 2020 laureate of The American Prize for Architecture this morning.
Bestowed jointly by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the prize recognizes forty years of contributions Moss' Culver City-based practice has made to Los Angeles and its urban fabric, with buildings such as The Samitaur Tower, The Waffle, The Cactus Tower, and the warehouse renovations, 3555 and Stealth.
"His buildings appear geometrically simple but are infused with theory and purpose," commented architecture critic and President/CEO of The Chicago Athenaeum Christian Narkiewicz-Laine. "His work in his usual and famous Kafkaesque approach simultaneously fosters an insatiable curiosity into what makes him tick; and even more, what makes this ticking turn into such astounding architecture."
Most recently, Eric Owen Moss Architects won the 2020 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award for its influential urban revival plan Conjunctive Points – The New City.
Previous American Prize for Architecture recipients include Norman Foster, Michael Graves, the General Services Administration, Richard Meier, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Form4Architecture, and James von Klemperer of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.
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I don't know of any other architect who is as relentlessly pursuing new expressions for architecture as Eric Owen Moss. Furthermore, far from fashion or transient architectural theories, he has done so all along the way. Keep going, Eric!
Lucas Rios-Giordano
Really?
Too bad he doesn't pay his interns. I'm disappointed in The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre.
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