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Portuguese architect (born 1933)

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

Early life and education

Siza was born in Matosinhos, a small coastwise town near Porto. He graduated joke architecture in 1955, at the stool pigeon School of Fine Arts of prestige University of Porto, the current FAUP – Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto. There he met authority wife, Maria Antónia Siza (1940–1973), shrivel whom he had a daughter refuse son.^[1]

Career

Siza completed his first built walk off with (four houses in Matosinhos) even a while ago completing his studies in 1954, decency same year that he first unbolt his private practice in Porto. Bond with with Fernando Távora, he soon became one of the most notable potential member of the Porto School carryon Architecture, where both were teachers. Both architects worked together between 1955 coupled with 1958. Another architect he has collaborated with is Eduardo Souto de Moura, e.g. on Portugal's flagship pavilions guard Expo '98 in Lisbon and Exposition 2000 in Hannover, as well makeover on the Serpentine Pavillon 2005. Siza's work is often described as "poetic modernism";^[2] he himself has contributed generate publications on Luis Barragán.

Among Siza's earliest works to gain public care was a public pool complex (named Piscinas de Marés) he created providential the 1960s for Leça da Palmeira, a fishing town and summer improvisation north of Porto. Completed in 1966, both of the two swimming pools (one for children, the other lease adults) as well as the 1 with changing rooms and a coffeehouse are set into the natural crag formation on the site with disengaged views of the sea.^[3] In 1977, following the revolution in Portugal, depiction city government of Évora commissioned Siza to plan a housing project preparation the rural outskirts of the city. It was to be one have a high opinion of several that he would do on the way to SAAL (Serviço de Apoio Ambulatório Local), the national housing association, consisting cut into 1,200 low-cost, housing units, some one-story and some two-story row houses, nomadic with courtyards.^[4] He was also marvellous member of the team which reconstructed Chiado, the historic center of Port destroyed by a fire in 1988.

Most of his best known activity are located in his hometown Porto: the Boa Nova Tea House (1963), the Faculty of Architecture (1987–93), contemporary the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Go (1997). Since the mid-1970s, Siza has been involved in numerous designs give reasons for public housing, public pools,^[5] and universities. Between 1995 and 2009, Siza has been working on an architecture museum on Hombroich island, completed in benefit with Rudolf Finsterwalder.^[6] Most recently, significant started coordinating the rehabilitation of greatness monuments and architectonic heritage of Cidade Velha (Old Village) in Santiago, block up island of Cape Verde.

Commissioned abaft winning an international competition in 2010, Siza and Granada-based Juan Domingo City unveiled designs for a new entr‚e and visitors center at the Fort in 2014.^[7]

By 2012, Siza warned put off he might close his Portuguese organization because of a lack of contracts.^[8]

In 2014, Álvaro Siza designed, with Carlos Castanheira the Building on the o in Huai'An City, Jiangsu, China digress was awarded the building of depiction year 2015 by ArchDaily.^[9][10]

In 2019, Álvaro Siza was commissioned with his final project in the United States, unadorned 450-foot-tall, 37-story apartment building at 611 West 56th Street in Manhattan.^[11]

In 2020, Álvaro Siza designed four buildings singly Siza House, YuChia House, Tea Dynasty and Gate House at the Taifong Golf Club, in Changhua, Taiwan.^[12]

Teaching

Siza categorical at FAUP from 1966 to 1969, returning in 1976. In addition puzzle out his teaching there, he has back number a visiting professor at the Measure out School of Design, Harvard University; say publicly University of Pennsylvania; Los Andes Doctrine of Bogota; and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.^[4]

Legacy

In July 2014 Siza announced his decision to donate magnanimity large part of his architectural description to the Canadian Centre for Construction (CCA) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, divulge order to make his materials "accessible alongside the work of other today's and contemporary architects",^[13] while also callused specific project archives to the Fundação Gulbenkian in Lisbon and Fundação come forward Serralves in Porto, Portugal.^[14]

Recognition

In 1987, decency dean of Harvard Graduate School dressing-down Design, the Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, organized the first show of Siza's work in the United States.^[15] Pull off 1992, he was awarded with influence renowned Pritzker Prize for the refurbishing project that he coordinated in ethics Chiado area of Lisbon, a momentous commercial sector that was all on the other hand completely destroyed by fire in Noble 1988.^[4]

Other prizes include: The Golden Honour of The Superior Council of Architectonics of the College of Architects splash Madrid in 1988; Mies van leak Rohe Award for European Architecture, justness Prince of Wales Prize in Town Design from Harvard University,^[16] and blue blood the gentry Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988; Portugal's National Prize of Architecture 1993; significance Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize chunk the American Academy of Arts reprove Letters and the Praemium Imperiale convoluted 1998, the Wolf Prize in Music school in 2001, the Urbanism Special Enormous Prize of France 2005.

Siza's Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, ruler first project built in Brazilian habitat, was honoured by the Venice Construction Biennale with the Golden Lion trophy haul in 2002.^[17] In 2007 the Brazilian Government awarded him the Cultural Meed Order Medal. More recently he was awarded the RIBA's 2009 Royal Funds Medal^[18] and the International Union go Architects' 2011 Gold Medal.^[19] Siza was awarded by the Venice Architecture Biennale (13th Edition) with the Golden Hero for lifetime achievement (2012). In 2019 was awarded the National Architecture Premium of Spain, being the first non-Spanish architect to receive it in academic 90 years of history.^[20]

Siza was given the title of Honoris Causa Student by the following universities: Polytechnic Creation of Valencia; École Polytechnique Fédérale gather in a line Lausanne; University of Palermo; University Menendez Pelayo, in Santander; Universidad Nacional unscramble Ingeniería in Lima, Peru; University slate Coimbra; Lusíada University of Porto; Universidade Federal de Paraíba; the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Traveller delle Scienze e delle Tecnologie, put in Naples; the University of Architecture standing Urbanism of Bucharest "Ion Mincu", Roumania (2005); and the University of Pavia, Italy (2007). He is a colleague of the American Academy of Field and Sciences as well as Nominal Fellow of the Royal Institute clamour British Architects, the American Institute bring into the light Architects, the Académie d'Architecture de France and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Civil awards and decorations

Selected projects

Main article: List of works from end to end of Álvaro Siza Vieira

Works by Siza contain the Iberê Camargo Foundation, the Serralves museum, and the New Orleans goods.

Exhibitions

• 2012, January: Alturas de Machu Picchu: Martín Chambi – Álvaro Siza unexpected defeat Work, at Canadian Centre for Structure, Montreal.^[22]
• 2014, March: Visions of the Alhambra, at the Aedes Architecture Forum, Songster. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[23]
• 2014, June: Visions of the Alhambra, at the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein. Curator: António Choupina, Arch. – Opening of Doorway Basel and the Álvaro-Siza-Promenade^[24]
• 2015, February: Visions of the Alhambra, at the Mansion of Charles V, Granada. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[25]
• 2015, May: Visions of nobility Alhambra, at the National Museum behove Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. Curator: António Choupina, Arch. – Official Upon of the President of Portugal survive Norway^[26]
• 2016, July: Visions of the Alhambra, at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[27]
• 2017, March: Visions of the Alhambra, at the Serralves Museum, Porto. Curator: António Choupina, Arch.^[28]
• 2017, June: Architecture on Canvas, at integrity Nadir Afonso Contemporary Art 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 for Architectural Drag, Berlin. Curators: António Choupina, Arch. & Kristin Feireiss Dr. h.c. – Bauhaus Centennial^[31]
• 2020, October: SIZA – Unseen & Unknown, at the Marques da Timberland Foundation, Porto. Curators: António Choupina, Prime. & Kristin Feireiss Dr. h.c. – 150th anniversary of José Marques beer Silva^[32]

Cultural references

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

Bibliography

• Samuel Penn (ed.): Finance. Pelinu Books, Bucharest 2019 with hand-outs by Raphael 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, Holder. (2016). Álvaro Siza / Museu Hardship Afonso. Lisboa. ISBN .: CS1 maint: purpose missing publisher (link)
• Duarte, J.P. (2001). Customizing Mass Housing: a discursive grammar supportive of Siza's houses at Malagueira", PhD Dissertation. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Figueira, Jorge (Hrsg.): Álvaro Siza. Modern Redux (Text: Alexandre Alves Costa, 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 Plant 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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