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  • Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture

    Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture

    Alvaro Siza Vieira, was awarded on Wednesday morning at the Museum Soares dos Reis, in Porto with the Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture, delivered by Secretary of State for CultureFrancisco José Viegas and the Minister of Culture of Spain, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde.

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    | November 17, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Public Class Lecture at Faculty of Arts 2011

    Public Class Lecture at Faculty of Arts 2011

    “The Relationship between Arts” was the title of the lecture by Álvaro Siza Vieira at the opening class of the Faculty of Arts of the university of Porto.

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    | November 5, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • Honorary Doctorate by the University of Seville

    Honorary Doctorate by the University of Seville

    alvaro siza vieira doutor honoris causa sevilhaSimplicity is a virtue difficult to achieve – Siza Vieira

    The architect Alvaro Siza Vieira, 1992 Pritzker Prize, which was on Monday honorary doctorate from the University of Seville, argued that simplicity is a virtue difficult to achieve and should not be confused with simplification.

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    | October 25, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • 1996 Church of Macro de Canaveses

    1996 Church of Macro de Canaveses

    The Santa Maria Church in Marco de Canavezes is part of an overall complex that, together with a planned Parish Center, will form a small urban square.It was the parish priest Father Nuno Higino’s personal decision to call on Siza, and to invest himself fully in this very ambitious project.

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    | October 19, 2011 | 0 Comments
  • 2005 Armanda Passos House

    2005 Armanda Passos House

    The Armanda Passos House Álvaro Siza The Interiorized House Amidst horizontal and vertical planes conditioned by the contours of the terrain, memories of Zen gardens and fire signs, the Armanda Passos house has gently risen – the most recent project by Álvaro Siza in Porto. Designed to be lived in at all hours of the [...]

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    | October 18, 2011 | 1 Comment

Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture

Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture

Alvaro Siza Vieira, was awarded on Wednesday morning at the Museum Soares dos Reis, in Porto with the Luso-Spanish Prize for Art and Culture, delivered by Secretary of State for CultureFrancisco José Viegas and the Minister of Culture of Spain, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde.

Honorary Doctorate by the University of Seville

Honorary Doctorate by the University of Seville

alvaro siza vieira doutor honoris causa sevilhaSimplicity is a virtue difficult to achieve – Siza Vieira

The architect Alvaro Siza Vieira, 1992 Pritzker Prize, which was on Monday honorary doctorate from the University of Seville, argued that simplicity is a virtue difficult to achieve and should not be confused with simplification.

Siza Vieira awarded the Award of Plastic Arts Cristóbal Gabarrón 2010

Siza Vieira awarded the Award of Plastic Arts Cristóbal Gabarrón 2010

The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira was awarded the International Prize for Plastic Arts Foundation 2010 Gabarrón Cristobal, who wanted to distinguish ‘the teacher, the international relevance and poetic inspiration “of his work.

IAU – International Architects Union Gold Medal 2011

IAU – International Architects Union Gold Medal 2011

The International Architects Union decided to give the Gold Medal to the known architect Siza Vieira. The candidature of Porto architect to one of the most prestigious architectural awards, was proposed ??by RIBA – Royal Institute of British Architects, announced the website of Portuguese Order of Architects, Southern Regional Chamber

Awards

Awards

Alvaro Siza Vieira Awards, Prizes and Recognitions.

by the Hyatt Foundation

by the Hyatt Foundation

“Every design,” says Siza, “is a rigorous attempt at capturing a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances.

Public Class Lecture at Faculty of Arts 2011

Public Class Lecture at Faculty of Arts 2011

“The Relationship between Arts” was the title of the lecture by Álvaro Siza Vieira at the opening class of the Faculty of Arts of the university of Porto.

1996 Church of Macro de Canaveses

1996 Church of Macro de Canaveses

The Santa Maria Church in Marco de Canavezes is part of an overall complex that, together with a planned Parish Center, will form a small urban square.It was the parish priest Father Nuno Higino’s personal decision to call on Siza, and to invest himself fully in this very ambitious project.

2005 Armanda Passos House

2005 Armanda Passos House

The Armanda Passos House Álvaro Siza The Interiorized House Amidst horizontal and vertical planes conditioned by the contours of the terrain, memories of Zen gardens and fire signs, the Armanda Passos house has gently risen – the most recent project by Álvaro Siza in Porto. Designed to be lived in at all hours of the [...]

2005 Sports Center Llobregat

2005 Sports Center Llobregat

The new Llobregat Sports Centre in the Barcelona suburb of Cornella is an example of what could be achieved. Designed by Alvaro Siza, the 40,000sq m sports centre is part of a larger sports park development which will include a new stadium for Barcelona’s “other” football club, Espanyol.

1994 Aveiro Library

1994 Aveiro Library

A free-standing curving wall characterises the western façade and expresses the reinforced concrete structure of the building.

1995 Faculty of Architecture

1995 Faculty of Architecture

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Alvaro Siza 1995

The buildings of the Porto architecture school are set on a terraced site high above the estuary of the Douro River.

Alvaro Siza Vieira Resumed

Alvaro Siza Vieira Resumed

Alvaro Siza (born 1933) is considered Portugal’s greatest living architect and possibly the best that country has ever produced.

Thoughts on his Style

Thoughts on his Style

I would like to start my discussion of the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza’s work by first considering some texts frequently cited in discussions of his projects: one by Siza himself, one by his mentor Fernando Tavora

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Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Lisbon Architecture Triennale

| November 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

More info at: http://trienaldelisboa.com LET’S TALK ABOUT HOUSES: Between  North and  South CURATORS Ana Vaz Milheiro, Diogo Seixas Lopes, Luís Santiago Baptista, James Peto, Manuel Graça Dias, Max Risselada, Pedro Pacheco and Peter Cook DATE 14.10.2010 – 16.01.2011 CO-PRODUCTION: LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE | MUSEU COLECÇÃO BERARDO The exhibition Let’s talk about houses: Between North and  [...]

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2005 Serpentine Gallery

2005 Serpentine Gallery

| October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment

“A pavilion is usually an isolated building, but with this site we felt we should maintain a relationship with the gallery and the trees, and these things were the start of the idea,” explains Siza. “In front of the house there are two hedges forming half an ellipse. That gave us the suggestion to make a curved surface to complete the ellipse.

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1963 Boa Nova Tea House

1963 Boa Nova Tea House

| October 12, 2011 | 3 Comments

View Larger Map Rua Boa Nova - Matosinhos 4450-705 MATOSINHOS Leça da Palmeira Portugal Alvaro Siza 1963 The Boa Nova Tea House was designed following a competition held in 1956 by the city council and won by Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora. After choosing a site on the cliffs of the Matosinhos seashore, Tavora turned the project over to [...]

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1977 Quinta da Malagueira

1977 Quinta da Malagueira

| October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments

Between 1973 and 1977 , Álvaro Siza designed three housing projects that together form a defining period in the architect’s early work.

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Thoughts on Álvaro Siza Vieira

Thoughts on Álvaro Siza Vieira

| October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

Álvaro Siza Vieira is the greatest living Portuguese architect -perhaps the finest the country has ever produced- whose works over the years have proven to be amongst the most coherent and complete of all architectural works this century.

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1994 Casa Vieira de Castro

1994 Casa Vieira de Castro

| October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment

Casa Vieira de Castro perches halfway up at the southwestern end of a hill that overlooks the town of Vila Nova de Famalicao in Portugal.

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