Eric Owen Moss wins American Prize for Architecture
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. Related on Archinect: From Obscurity to MoMA. Eric Owen Moss's Playa Del Rey Triplex"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 ast...
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 ast...
