1929-2025 One of the most recognized architects worldwide, acclaimed for his avant-garde and experimental style, was born in Toronto. Canadian of Jewish origin, as a child he built small futuristic houses and cities with his grandmother from pieces of wood. In 1947 he emigrated with his family to the United States, settling in California. It is in this state, in the city of Los Angeles, that he studies architecture — later acquiring North American nationality. In 1997 the Guggenheim in Bilbao was one of the first major projects that brought him international recognition. Others include the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, and his own home in Santa Monica, for which he used materials such as chain-link fencing, plywood and corrugated steel. Father of four children (from two marriages), he has received numerous awards, including the Pritzker for Architecture, in which the judges described him as someone “always open to experimentation”, with “a confidence and maturity that resists, in the same way as Picasso, being limited by critical acceptance or by his successes”. Day 5, of respiratory illness. Maria João Bourbon