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.
Archive for September, 2011
1999 Interview with Siza
In primary school, we learned to draw in a very special way. I remember that all the students, at six years of age or so, were taught to draw such things as a closed box, then an open box.
1997 Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art
serralves3Rua D.João de Castro 210
Porto
Portugal
Alvaro Siza 1997
The new Museum of Contemporary Art is in the Quinta de Serralves, a property comprising a large house surrounded by gardens, woods and meadows, commissioned in the 1930s to serve as a private residence and later used as an exhibition space.
1998 Álvaro Siza Vieira´s Architectural Office
The office of Alvaro Siza is located in a five-story building overlooking the Douro River in Porto, between the historical center and the Atlantic ocean.
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
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
2006 Anyang Pavilion
A small city of 300,000 inhabitants had launched a project for a cultural complex right in front of a natural park, wedged in amongst beautiful mountains. A multifunctional pavilion was needed as a complementary, but central element. Álvaro Siza’s name was mentioned and the invitation was answered, in person, in Porto.
by Kenneth Frampton
It was, as the architect is fond of saying, “a chair that looked like a chair”. It was in fact a simple skeleton of dressed wood from which chairs have been made since time immemorial.
1994 Galician Museum of Art
One of Alvaro Siza’s most notable projects of the mid 1990s, was the Galician Museum of Art in the heart of Santiago de Compostela (AR October 1994).
Alvaro Siza Vieira Resumed
Alvaro Siza (born 1933) is considered Portugal’s greatest living architect and possibly the best that country has ever produced.
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