Understanding the Poetics of Space

"'It suggests that the compass has rotated somewhere' away from Western Europe and the U.S., he said. 'Here's this old-fashioned model of someone like Gaudí, who barely set foot outside Barcelona. It stretches the world's frame of reference: He hasn't had to move physically to move the world internationally.'"

Scott Timberg in the Los Angeles Times profiles Paulo Mendes da Rocha, winner of the 2006 Pritzker Architecture Prize.