Long before he decided to be an architect, Rafael Moneo ran with the bulls of Pamplona in his native Spain.
Young men participate because it is fun and also full of risk.
He was a university student then, attracted not only to risk but to philosophy and painting. He says his choice of an architecture career probably was prompted by his father, an engineer concerned that his son be able to earn a living. In retrospect, the designer of the Audrey Jones Beck Building says he couldn't have been anything else. A jury of his peers agreed when it awarded him the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1996. The prize is just 20 years old, but in prestige it is comparable to the Nobel Prize for literature.