Luis Moreno Mansilla practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Luis Moreno Mansilla as Spanish architect.
Luis Moreno Mansilla was born at Madrid in 1959. His recorded nationality is Spain. He trained at Technical University of Madrid and Real Academia de España en Roma.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.
That the work was built in Spain shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Luis Moreno Mansilla died in 2012, aged 53. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
- Trained at Technical University of Madrid and Real Academia de España en Roma
