The architect Alvaro Siza Vieira will design the future Interpretation Center of Angra do Heroism, to be installed in the “Casa dos Pamplonas”, in what will be his first work in the Azores archipelago.

“Thank you for accepting this challenge and allow Angra do Heroism have your first project in the Azores, especially the important milestone that is the Interpretation Center,” said the mayor of Angra do Heroism on Terceira Island, Sofia Couto.

Sofia Couto spoke at the solemn session to celebrate the National Day of Historic Centres, which this year took place in Angra do Heroismo, the first Portuguese city to receive the classification of the World Heritage granted by UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

In his speech, the mayor recalled how the city of Angra do Heroism was destroyed by the earthquake in 1980 and emphasized the distinction awarded by UNESCO, which allowed the reconstruction to follow the original plan.

Sofia Couto stressed that angrenses feel “honored with this legacy,” and therefore intend it to be more dynamic and show the world that the city of Angra do Heroismo is “living history”.

At the ceremony held today in the City Hall of Angra do Heroism to mark the National Day of Historic Centres, Alvaro Siza Vieira gave a lecture on ‘Architecture and the City’, having also been awarded the Prize “Memory and Identity”.

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In designing the Pavilion, Siza sought to ‘guarantee that the new building – while presenting a totally different architecture – established a “dialogue” with the Neo-classical house’.

The result was a structure that mirrored the domestic scale of the Serpentine and articulated the landscape between the two buildings. The Pavilion was based on a simple rectangular grid, which was distorted to create a dynamic curvaceous form. It comprised interlocking timber beams, a material that accentuated the relationship between the Pavilion and surrounding Park.

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The via Tommaso Agudio is a side-street situated half-way along the famous Corso Semplione leading to the Castello Sforzesco and north-west facing. Built in the Napoleonic era of the early 1800′s the direct, impressive. tree-lined aspect of the Corso Semplione brings to mind the urban architecture of the Champs-Elysèes in Paris. Along the length of the street are examples of quality, desirable residences in full view of the magnificent Arco della PaceMonument created in 1807 at the behest of both the city and Napoleon himself and which opens onto the vast green area of the Parco Sempione.

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In view of Expo 2015 the internationally-renowned Portuguese architect, Alvaro Siza submitted his ambitious project aiming to transform the Corso Sempione into a huge garden by replacing the central road structure with greenery and creating an extraordinary scenario within this important gateway to the city.

The project aims to present an imposing part of Milan through a combination of modern imagery, whether emphasising art, urban grace, whilst incorporating the ambience and the quality of its residential sectors.

Via Tommaso Agudio is on the east side. It’s one-way and is tram-free but remains well-served by public transport. 20 minutes by bus and metro gets you to the Piazza del Duomo and a further 10 to the Stazione Centrale. Motorway access is around 2 km. A further innovation giving added value to this fine real estate development is the current construction of Linea 5 of the Metro which will pass within the immediate vicinity of via Agudio.

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One of the most complete monography on Álvaro Siza´s work between 1958 and 2000. Includes detailed construction sketches, interviews with Álvaro Siza Vieira and alot of information on his ealier works.

SUMMARY:

Biography

Getting through the turbulence: Interview with Alvaro Siza
Zaera, Alejandro

Alvaro Siza: An Architecture of Edges
Curtis, William J. R.

A Conversation [with Alvaro Siza]
Curtis, William J. R.

Notes on Invention: Alvaro Siza
Curtis, William J. R.

Alvaro Siza 1958 1994
BOA NOVA RESTAURANT
SWIMMING POOL IN LEÇA DA PALMEIRA
PINTO & SOTTO MAIOR BANK
ANTONIO CARLOS SIZA HOUSE
QUINTA DA MALAGUEIRA SOCIAL HOUSING
BORGES & IRMÃO BANK
AVELINO DUARTE HOUSE
SCHLESISCHES TOR HOUSING
TWO HOUSES IN VAN DER VENNE PARK
METEREOLOGICAL CENTRE IN THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE
SCHILDERSWIJK WARD SOCIAL HOUSING
VIEIRA DE CASTRO HOUSE
CARLOS RAMOS PAVILION
SETÚBAL TEACHERS’ TRAINING COLLEGE
OPORTO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
GALICIAN CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
PRODUCTION BUILDING FOR VITRA

Alvaro Siza 1995 1999
AVEIRO UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
CHURCH IN MARCO DE CANAVEZES
CERAMIQUE-APARTMENT AND OFFICE BUILDINGS
BOAVISTA RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX
BAIXA/CHIADO UNDERGROUND STATION
REVIGRÉS BUILDING
ARCHITECTURAL OFFICE
PORTUGUESE PAVILION FOR EXPO ?98
RECTORATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE
SERRALVES FOUNDATION
FACULTY OF INFORMATION SCIENCES
VALENCIA UNIVERSITY RECTORY AND LAW LIBRARY
CARGALEIRO FOUNDATION
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EXTENSION TO STEDELIJK MUSEUM
MAISON VAN MIDDELEM-DUPONT
PIER IN THESSALONIKA
MANZANA DEL REVELLÍN CULTURAL CENTRE
ROSARIO MUNICIPAL CENTRE
VILLA COLONNESE IN VICENZA
IBERE CAMARGO FOUNDATION

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This monograph is a comprehensive study of Siza’s work, from his early built work – the Boa Nova Tea House, Portugal (1958-63) – to his latest projects. Siza has received critical acclaim for works in Germany (Schlesisches Tor, Berlin), Spain (Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela), Italy (restoration of the Campo di Marte, Venice) and Portugal (Portugese Pavilion at Expo ’98, Lisbon). His projects have been exhibited widely.

Siza’s architecture is vigorous and coherent and distinctively apt to respond to the environment without detracting from its functional and stylistic identity. This book charts over 40 years of work to cover built works, projects, writings, photographs, drawings and many of Siza’s sketches. An extensive introduction by Kenneth Frampton describes the works’ evolution, while writings by Siza himself are interspersed throughout the volume, offering a unique personal perspective to his work and to twentieth-century architecture as a whole.

• Paperback: 620 pages
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.8 x 1.9 inches

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Monograph which deals with all aspects of the master’s personality: works, constructed or otherwise, primary written sources, critiques and photographic interpretations.

Monography Collection:

The aim of the collection is to offer a series of short monographs which, though brief, nevertheless deal with all aspects of the master’s personality: works, constructed or otherwise, primary written sources, critiques and photographic interpretations. The underlying aim is to offer an in-depth, comprehensive overview targeted at anyone interested in learning about architecture including students, professionals or simply those who are interested in the subject, by providing not only basic information but also guidance in terms of gaining more insight into the subject. The volumes are dedicated to some of the best known modern and contemporary architects

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Álvaro Siza (b.1933) is considered Portugal’s greatest living architect. His buildings are known for their austere beauty and their imaginative relationship to their surroundings. Relatively unknown outside his native Portugal when he won the 1992 Pritzker Prize, he has since built a number of masterful buildings around the world while retaining strong ties to his country. This volume highlights over twenty of these projects, approximately half of which are in Portugal. Each is explained in depth by author Carlos Castanheira as well as Siza himself, and illustrated with photographs, complete sets of drawings, and a wealth of Siza’s sketches.

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Constructed in the sixties and with an expansive view of the Atlantic Ocean, this project is considered one of the most interesting early works of the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. This publication “rediscovers” his project with the help of recently made available drawings, project descriptions, sketches and photographs.

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Blau (2005)
Language: English, Portuguese, German
Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm

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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.

Siza Vieira succeeds Joseph Benedict and Perfeito Quadrado, previous winners of this award, highly prestigious and representing the binding of the artistic dialogue between the countries that make up the Iberian Peninsula.

The Portuguese architect was presented with a piece written by Fernanda Fragateiro and did not hide the “great emotion” by the honor bestowed with such distinction.

His artistic journey that has so often contemplated Spain,  through the poetry in the design of the Galician Centre of Contemporary Art and the School of Journalism, two examples of his work in Santiago de Compostela, was bestowed with compliments from the Spanish Government by the words of Angeles González, praising ”the universal work of someone who built places for men and women around the world with a desire to better accommodate the society.”

Francisco José Viegas did not miss out on the tribute to Siza Vieira, loaded with symbolism because it coincides with the birthday of Jose Saramago. The Portuguese Secretary of State praised the role of the architect from Matosinhos “internationalization of culture thanks to a strong and active presence.”

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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  South its shown at the Museu Colecção Berardo. Occupying the entire floor of the Grand Hall (3000 m2), it examines dwelling conditions and the new solutions found in the specific contexts of various regions around the world. With a broad span of commissioners, the exhibition is based around two emblematic experiments (the SAAL project and Alison and Peter Smithson’s House of the Future) in order to examine the meaning of the specificity of place, the modernist legacy, and new solutions to the question of dwelling.

Between the utopian dimension of the legacies of 1956 (Smithson´s) and 1976 (SAAL) and the contemporary period, diverse architectural practices intersect, complexify, and are constructed and defined. In the different areas of this exhibition, the specific nature of the local problems and solutions that architecture is defining, will be detailed through the presentation of projects and the use of documental images and interviews with architects, theoreticians and residents.

Let´s talk about houses…in Portugal

The pathway that structures the exhibition – that which shapes its topological centre – is devoted to Portugal, in the vision conceived by Pedro Pacheco and Luís Santiago Baptista, who found their provisional map in the presentation of nine projects by the same number of architects. In symbolic terms, we could say that the structuring of the pathway that they are proposing is based on an “ethics of reception” of architecture, permanently confronting the point of view of the architect with the way that his work is received by those who inhabit the space.

Featured architects: a.s*; Aires Mateus; Álvaro Siza Vieira; Atelier Central; Eduardo Souto de Moura; João Mendes Ribeiro; Menos é Mais; Pedro Reis; Rui Mendes.

The Nordic Connection

The mapping of the scenarios found in northern Europe, with which Portugal maintains a twofold relationship – simultaneously distant, but with a maritime link – was conceived by Peter Cook, who undertook a tour around Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland to find, in the Nordic tradition of wood, lightness, turf, and sea, a path of connections that led him to select eight studios. On this basis, he has created a provisional outline of a map of the pathways of northern dwelling. The essay that he has contributed to the catalogue is a long text that frames the specificities of northern European architecture and design. Among the forests and the ships, the mimetic and the different, he finds the traces, which he sought on his journey.

Featured architects: ALA Architects; Anttinen Oiva Architects; Dorte Mandrup; Helen & Hard; Jensen & Skodvin Architects, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen & Karin Bech (CITA), Snohetta AS, Tham & Videgård Architects.

Borderlines: the Novartis case

Diogo Seixas Lopes was entrusted with the curatorship of the section that establishes the relationship between Switzerland and Portugal. His focus represents almost the inverse of the proposal put forward by the exhibition as it is centered on three projects related to the enormous architectural park that is Novartis in Basel. The buildings chosen (by Siza Vieira, Souto de Moura and Peter Märkli) are, respectively, laboratories and the centre where guests are welcomed to the Swiss pharmaceutical company, modules in the network, which constitutes the city within a city (almost the state within a state), which is the extraordinary architectural campus of Novartis. It is this condition of the city without inhabitants (but with workers, like a gigantic beehive) that Diogo Seixas Lopes is proposing, and which finds a peculiar expression in the (economic and technical) conditions that architects find here.

Featured architects: Álvaro Siza Vieira; Eduardo Souto de Moura; Peter Märkli.

Africa/Brazil: The Popular City

The exhibition ends with a tour around Africa and brazil, guided by Ana Vaz Milheiro and Manuel Graça Dias, which focuses on three cities: Luanda, Recife and Maputo. The curators’ project was to discuss dwelling in these cities on three levels: the real, informal and organic city of the musseques, caniços and favelas; the formal, besieged city of the secure and asocial condominiums; and the threatened city, made up of the fragile legacy of the modernism that, in the tropical poetics that developed, found a freedom and a heterodoxy that should be recovered and re-examined. The strategy of presenting places and their protagonists, and the invitation to authors to write short accounts of their cities, maps out a pathway that, as organically as a city, tempts us to think about dwelling much more than would the fetish of the architectural object.

Featured architects: Delfim Amorim; Fernão Simões de Carvalho; Maria João Teles Grilo; José Forjaz; Pancho Guedes; Una Arquitectos.

EXHIBITION DESIGN TEAM

Architecture: Sofia Saraiva, Ana Miguel e Pedro Rogado

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