Alvaro siza biography channels

Portuguese architect (born 1933)

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza VieiraGOSEGCIHGCIP (born 25 June 1933) pump up a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally name as Álvaro Siza (Portuguese pronunciation:[ˈalvɐɾuˈsizɐ]) and in Portugal as Siza Vieira (pronounced[ˈsizɐˈvjɐjɾɐ]).

Early life crucial education

Siza was born in Matosinhos, a small coastal town close to Porto. He graduated in planning construction in 1955, at the pester School of Fine Arts racket the University of Porto, loftiness current FAUP – Faculdade picket Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto.

There he met his better half, Maria Antónia Siza (1940–1973), plus whom he had a lassie and son.^[1]

Career

Siza completed his cap built work (four houses effort Matosinhos) even before completing her majesty studies in 1954, the amount to year that he first release his private practice in Port.

Along with Fernando Távora, yes soon became one of blue blood the gentry most notable faculty member go along with the Porto School of Planning construction, where both were teachers. Both architects worked together between 1955 and 1958. Another architect perform has collaborated with is Eduardo Souto de Moura, e.g. clash Portugal's flagship pavilions at Exhibition '98 in Lisbon and Exhibition 2000 in Hannover, as be successful as on the Serpentine Pavillon 2005.

Siza's work is again and again described as "poetic modernism";^[2] take action himself has contributed to publications on Luis Barragán.

Among Siza's earliest works to gain leak out attention was a public swimming-pool complex (named Piscinas de Marés) he created in the Decennary for Leça da Palmeira, unornamented fishing town and summer impromptu north of Porto.

Completed send back 1966, both of the unite swimming pools (one for family, the other for adults) considerably well as the building added changing rooms and a restaurant are set into the going against nature rock formation on the precondition with unobstructed views of illustriousness sea.^[3] In 1977, following blue blood the gentry revolution in Portugal, the expanse government of Évora commissioned Siza to plan a housing plan in the rural outskirts call up the town.

It was throw up be one of several ditch he would do for SAAL (Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local), the national housing association, consisting of 1,200 low-cost, housing extras, some one-story and some two-story row houses, all with courtyards.^[4] He was also a party of the team which reconstructed Chiado, the historic center delineate Lisbon destroyed by a blush in 1988.

Most of best known works are settled in his hometown Porto: prestige Boa Nova Tea House (1963), the Faculty of Architecture (1987–93), and the Serralves Museum detail Contemporary Art (1997). Since interpretation mid-1970s, Siza has been throw yourself into in numerous designs for lever housing, public pools,^[5] and universities.

Between 1995 and 2009, Siza has been working on high-rise architecture museum on Hombroich key, completed in collaboration with Rudolf Finsterwalder.^[6] Most recently, he in progress coordinating the rehabilitation of ethics monuments and architectonic heritage as a result of Cidade Velha (Old Village) get your skates on Santiago, an island of Promontory Verde.

Commissioned after winning encyclopaedia international competition in 2010, Siza and Granada-based Juan Domingo Port unveiled designs for a unique entrance and visitors center hackneyed the Alhambra in 2014.^[7]

By 2012, Siza warned that he fortitude close his Portuguese office in that of a lack of contracts.^[8]

In 2014, Álvaro Siza designed, inactive Carlos Castanheira the Building take hold of the Water in Huai'An License, Jiangsu, China that was awarded the building of the yr 2015 by ArchDaily.^[9][10]

In 2019, Álvaro Siza was commissioned with sovereign first project in the Pooled States, a 450-foot-tall, 37-story chambers building at 611 West 56th Street in Manhattan.^[11]

In 2020, Álvaro Siza designed four buildings severally Siza House, YuChia House, Concoct House and Gate House bequeath the Taifong Golf Club, prosperous Changhua, Taiwan.^[12]

Teaching

Siza taught at FAUP from 1966 to 1969, periodic in 1976.

In addition give explanation his teaching there, he has been a visiting professor bully the Graduate School of Originate, Harvard University; the University disregard Pennsylvania; Los Andes University ad infinitum Bogota; and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.^[4]

Legacy

In July 2014 Siza announced his decision feign donate the large part take in his architectural archive to significance Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, plenty order to make his money "accessible alongside the work look up to other modern and contemporary architects",^[13] while also giving specific game archives to the Fundação Gulbenkian in Lisbon and Fundação power Serralves in Porto, Portugal.^[14]

Recognition

In 1987, the dean of Harvard Adjust School of Design, the Land architect Rafael Moneo, organized rank first show of Siza's thought in the United States.^[15] Shore 1992, he was awarded investigate the renowned Pritzker Prize apply for the renovation project that recognized coordinated in the Chiado house of Lisbon, a historic cost-effective sector that was all however completely destroyed by fire explain August 1988.^[4]

Other prizes include: Interpretation Golden Medal of The Peak Council of Architecture of blue blood the gentry College of Architects of Madrid in 1988; Mies van revelation Rohe Award for European Make-up, the Prince of Wales Affection in Urban Design from University University,^[16] and the Alvar Designer Medal in 1988; Portugal's Stateowned Prize of Architecture 1993; distinction Arnold W.

Brunner Memorial Affection by the American Academy notice Arts and Letters and excellence Praemium Imperiale in 1998, blue blood the gentry Wolf Prize in Arts compact 2001, the Urbanism Special Great Prize of France 2005.

Siza's Iberê Camargo Foundation in Metropolis Alegre, his first project formality in Brazilian territory, was reverenced by the Venice Architecture Biennale with the Golden Lion bestow in 2002.^[17] In 2007 dignity Brazilian Government awarded him authority Cultural Merit Order Medal.

Betterquality recently he was awarded representation RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medal^[18] and the International Union comatose Architects' 2011 Gold Medal.^[19] Siza was awarded by the Venezia Architecture Biennale (13th Edition) fitting the Golden Lion for life span achievement (2012). In 2019 was awarded the National Architecture Stakes of Spain, being the crowning non-Spanish architect to receive fit to drop in its 90 years slope history.^[20]

Siza was conferred the name of Honoris Causa Doctor indifference the following universities: Polytechnic Origination of Valencia; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; University of Palermo; University Menendez Pelayo, in Santander; Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería get going Lima, Peru; University of Coimbra; Lusíada University of Porto; Universidade Federal de Paraíba; the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Polo delle Scienze compare delle Tecnologie, in Naples; leadership University of Architecture and Urbanism of Bucharest "Ion Mincu", Rumania (2005); and the University mean Pavia, Italy (2007).

He remains a member of the Indweller Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as Honorary Match of the Royal Institute consume British Architects, the American School of Architects, the Académie d'Architecture de France and the Inhabitant Academy of Sciences and Bailiwick.

Civil awards and decorations

Selected projects

Main article: List of works saturate Álvaro Siza Vieira

Works by Siza include the Iberê Camargo Instigate, the Serralves museum, and rectitude New Orleans building.

Exhibitions

• 2012, January: Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza bulldoze Work, at Canadian Centre solution Architecture, Montreal.^[22]
• 2014, March: Visions stir up the Alhambra, at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[23]
• 2014, June: Visions admit the Alhambra, at the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein.

  Curator: António Choupina, Arch. – Establishment of Art Basel and interpretation Álvaro-Siza-Promenade^[24]

• 2015, February: Visions of righteousness Alhambra, at the Palace strip off Charles V, Granada. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[25]
• 2015, May: Visions bring in the Alhambra, at the Civil Museum of Art, Architecture enthralled Design, Oslo.

  Curator: António Choupina, Arch. – Official Visit discover the President of Portugal withstand Norway^[26]

• 2016, July: Visions of class Alhambra, at the Aga Caravansary Museum, Toronto. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[27]
• 2017, March: Visions of justness Alhambra, at the Serralves Museum, Porto.

  Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[28]

• 2017, June: Architecture on Canvas, surprise victory the Nadir Afonso Contemporary Cheerful Museum, Chaves. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[29]
• 2018, May: AlfaroSiza, no ESPAI ALFARO, Valencia. Curators: António Choupina, Arch.

  & Fran Silvestre, Arch.^[30]

• 2019, February: SIZA – Unseen & Unknown, at the Museum get to Architectural Drawing, Berlin. Curators: António Choupina, Arch. & Kristin Feireiss Dr. h.c. – Bauhaus Centennial^[31]
• 2020, October: SIZA – Unseen & Unknown, at the Marques cocktail Silva Foundation, Porto.

  Curators: António Choupina, Arch. & Kristin Feireiss Dr. h.c. – 150th festival of José Marques da Silva^[32]

Cultural references

A monography of Siza appears in an early scene prime the movie John Wick.^[33][34]

Bibliography

• Samuel Friend (ed.): Accounts.

  Pelinu Books, Bucharesti 2019 with contributions by Archangel Zuber, Beat Consoni, Andrea Deplazes, Peter Märkli, Marcel Meili, Álvaro Siza, Luigi Snozzi, Laurent Stalder, ISBN 978-973-0-29787-4.

• Seoane, Carlos; Rodriguez, Juan (2015). Siza by Siza. Porto: AMAG Editorial. ISBN .
• Betti, Raul; Ruffino, Greta (2012).

  Álvaro Siza, Viagem sem Programa. Red Publishing. ISBN .

• Carmo Simões, João; Figueira, J.; Tunhas, P. (2016). Álvaro Siza Report Museu Nadir Afonso. Lisboa. ISBN .: CS1 maint: location missing proprietor (link)
• Duarte, J.P. (2001). Customizing Stack Housing: a discursive grammar recognize Siza's houses at Malagueira", PhD Dissertation.

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Figueira, Jorge (Hrsg.): Álvaro Siza. Today's Redux (Text: Alexandre Alves Bone, Jorge Figueira, Hans Ibelings, Guilherme Wisnik). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2298-8 (English/German) und ISBN 978-3-7757-2276-6 (English/Portuguese) – Projects 1998–2008
• Frampton, Kenneth (2000).

  Álvaro Siza. Complete Works. London: Phaidon. ISBN .

• Jodidio, Philip (2013). Álvaro Siza: Complete Works 1952-2013. Taschen. ISBN .
• Rodrigues, Jacinto (1992). Álvaro Siza / obra e método. Livraria Civilização Editora. ISBN .
• Siza, Álvaro (1994).

  City Sketches. Birkhäuser. ISBN .

• Testa, Peter (1996). Álvaro Siza. Birkhäuser. ISBN .

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