Rafael Viñoly

Uruguayan architect (1944–2023)

Rafael Viñoly is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.

The record lists Rafael Viñoly as Uruguayan architect (1944–2023).

Rafael Viñoly was born at Montevideo in 1944. His recorded nationality is Uruguay. He trained at School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism.

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.

His best-known building is 432 Park Avenue. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.

Recognition followed: Konex Award.

That the work was built in Uruguay shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.

Rafael Viñoly died in 2023, aged 79. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.

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