Rafael Moneo

One of Spain’s best-known architects, José Rafael Moneo (1937) graduated in Madrid in 1961: after an important stay in Rome on a scholarship, he returned to the Spanish capital, where he opened his own studio in 1966.  At the same time he started teaching, first in Madrid and Barcelona and then at the international level (in Lausanne, New York, London and Venice, among other places): in 1985 he began teaching at the Graduate School of Architecture at Harvard University, where he also served as dean.  Construction and theory are inseparable in Moneo’s work, as each influences, keeps a check on and is inspired by the other. His theoretical work has appeared not only in the academic environment but in numerous magazines, ranging from Arquitecturas bis, of which he was one of the founders, to Nueva Forma and Oppositions. In his work he rejects pre-constituted styles and focuses above all on use of “a ....

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