Álvaro Siza Vieira
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, GOSE, GCIH, is a contemporary Portuguese architect, born 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos a small coastal town by Porto. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈaɫvɐɾu ˈsizɐ].
He graduated in architecture in 1955, at the former School of Fine Arts from the University of Porto, the current Faup - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. Where he taught from 1966 to 1969, returning in 1976.
Along with Fernando Távora, he is one of the references of the Porto School of Architecture where both were teachers. His "poetic" modernism draws on context to illuminate universal conditions.
In 1992, he was awarded with the Pritzker Prize for renovation project that he coordinated in the Chiado area of Lisbon, a historic commercial sector that was all but completely destroyed by fire in August 1988.
Other prizes include: The Golden Medal of The Superior Counsil of Arquitecture of the College of Architects of Madrid in 1988, Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture 1988, the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988, the Prince of Wales Prize from Harvard University in 1998, Portugal's National Prize of Architecture 1993, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2001, the Urbanism Special Grand Prize of France 2005.
More recently he was announced as RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medallist.
Works
- 1958-1963: Boa Nova restaurant in Matosinhos (Photos).
- 1958-1965: Quinta de Conceição swimming-pool (Photos).
- 1966: Leça da Palmeira swimming-pool (Photos).
- 1981-1985: Avelino Duarte House Ovar.
- 1987-1993: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (Photos; Photos 2).
- 1988 - Rebuilding plans of the Chiado neighbourhood after a fire, Lisbon.
- 1995: Library of the University of Aveiro.
- 1997: Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Photos).
- 1998: Architectural Practice, Porto (Photos).
- 1999 Residential tower, Maastricht.
- 2002: Southern Municipal District Center, Rosario, Argentina (first work by Siza in South America) [1] [2]
- 2005: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005 (Photos).
- 2008: Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
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