Dal 2023, abbiamo chiesto ad alcuni dei migliori architetti viventi di racchiudere i loro concetti di tempo, spazio e proporzione in un orologio da polso. La serie Architects of Time è il risultato di questo impegno, e ogni orologio reca non solo una firma prestigiosa, ma anche, e soprattutto, la visione di un maestro sullo scorrere del tempo.
Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Siza Vieira was born in 1933, in Matosinhos, Porto. and graduated from the School of Fine Arts at the University of his home city in 1955. Winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1992, he is one of the most awarded and prominent architects in contemporary architecture.
For this series he designed “a watch that looks like a watch, in the same way that I think a chair should look like a chair and an automobile should look like an automobile. For what is new need not be an aggression - and that is not always the case.”
Siza
Rafael Moneo
Rafael Moneo was born in Tudela (Navarra) in 1937 and is one of the most revered architects in the last 50 years. He received the Pritzker Prize in 1996 for his body of work.
For this series he designed a square watch that alludes to the meaning of the hours associated with the passing of the day: they refer to daily activities, not to a mere succession of moments.
Moneo
Eduardo Souto Moura
Eduardo Souto de Moura was born in Porto in 1952 and is one of the most influential Portuguese architects of his generation. He was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2011 for an oeuvre marked by rigor, restraint, and an exceptional sensitivity to context and materials.
For this series he designed a watch of simple lines and balanced proportions. A watch must tell the time, but it can look beautiful while doing so.
Souto Moura
Tadao Ando
Tadao Ando was born in Osaka in 1941 and is one of the most celebrated architects of contemporary architecture. He received the Pritzker Prize in 1995 for a body of work defined by minimalism, natural geometry, and a profound dialogue between light, space, and matter.
For this series he designed a watch in the form of a green apple, his symbol of youth. Rather than just telling the time, his signature piece reminds us to live it with the hope and courage that define youth — “not as a stage of life, but as a movement of the heart.”
