Madrid, May 5 (EFE).- The Galician architect César Portela is the new winner of the Gold Medal for Architecture, the most important distinction awarded by the profession, for the solidity of his career and his international projection.
Established by the Superior Council of the Colleges of Architects of Spain (CSCAE) in 1981, this award recognizes the efforts of people and institutions “who ennoble architectural work with their work.”
In its opinion, the jury has valued the “solidity” of the professional career of César Portela (Pontevedra, 1937), “as a Galician benchmark for new generations of architects in both architecture and urban planning”. Likewise, it highlights the work of the “localist architect who exceeds his native area to project himself internationally.”
The jury was chaired by the second vice president of the CSCAE, Moisés Castro Porto; the deans of the colleges of architects of Ceuta and Galicia, José Daniel Moya Enríquez and Elena Ampudia Aixendri, respectively; the treasurer of the CSCAE, María José Peñalver; the tenured academic of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Pedro Moleón Gavilanes; the architect Sol Madridejos; the journalist and architecture critic Llàtzer Moix; and the general secretary of the CSCAE, Laureano Matas.