Watch Paulo Mendes da Rocha's Royal Gold Medal Lecture

In the lecture, which was delivered in Portuguese but translated simultaneously in English, da Rocha presents a number of his projects, from the Porto Fluvial No Rio Tietê (1980) to the recently opened Museu dos Coches in Lisbon. But these came after the 88-year-old architect gives a passioned if somewhat unsettling fifteen-minute diatribe on nature, cities, humanity, politics and other pressing issues outside of architecture. These words and da Rocha's presentation of the Museu dos Coches are highlights of a talk on the occasion of a well deserved award.