Brazilian architect and 2006 Pritzker Prize laureate Paulo Mendes da Rocha is best known for his Brutalist work in concrete and steel. In his Brazilian Sculpture Museum, São Paulo, concrete slabs link partly-underground gallery space to an outdoor plaza, integrating building and landscape. In his renovation of São Paulo’s Patriarch Plaza, a steel canopy reorganizes the square. Pritzker juror Karen Stein said that Mendes da Rocha pushes “the sculptural limits of structural form to surprising and often poetic effect,” and juror Carlos Jimenez called his work “an architecture of profound social engagement.”