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Berlin, Schlesische Straße, Building "Bonjour Tristesse", by Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, (born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos), who signs as Álvaro Siza Vieira (pron. IPA: ['aɫvɐɾu 'sizɐ vi'ɐiɾɐ]) and is sometimes known as Álvaro Siza, is a contemporary Portuguese architect. His poetic modernism draws on context to illuminate universal conditions. Along with Fernando Távora, he's one of the references of the "Escola do Porto" (Porto School of Architecture), where both were teachers. Both their works are inspired by the site and try to achieve what was missing there - there is always a very strict connection between the built and the nature, the new and the old, the sensorial and the rational.
In 1992, he was awarded the Pritzker Prize, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2001 and the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988. Other prizes include: The Golden Medal of The Superior Counsil of Arquitecture of the College of Architects of Madrid (1988), The Prince of Wales Prize from Harvard University (1998); Portugal's National Prize of Architecture (1993); and the Urbanism Special Grand Prize of France (2005).
Marco de Canavezes Church
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