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José Rafael Moneo Vallés (born May 9 , 1937 ) is a Spanish Architect . He was born in Tudela , Spain , and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid of the architect Francisco Javier Sáenz De Oíza . He has taught architecture at various locations around the world and from 1985 to 1990 was the chairman of Harvard University Graduate School Of Design .

Spanish constructions of his design include the renovation of the Villahermosa Palace in Madrid , the National Museum Of Roman Art in Merida, Spain , an expansion of the Atocha Railway Station (also in Madrid), the Diestre Factory in Zaragoza , Pilar And Joan Miró Fundation in Mallorca the headquarters of the Bankinter Bank (again, in Madrid).

Among his prominent U.S.-located designs are the Cathedral Of Our Lady Of The Angels in Los Angeles , the Charles Schwab GSB Housing at Stanford University , the Davis Art Museum at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the Houston Museum Of Fine Arts .


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  Before &mdash
  Title Schock Prize In Visual Arts
  Years 1993


  Before Tadao Ando
  Title Pritzker Prize
  Years 1996