https://portugalbuilds.org/files/original/247eb79d3595073d8fd69c7ab4d917c4.JPG 3cfaa5f82117f7b46df7f87762924aa0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Álvaro Siza Vieira portrait Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actor, Technician, Architect, Álvaro Siza Vieira Description An account of the resource Álvaro Siza Vieira portrait Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Álvaro Siza" (1993). In Arquivos RTP, [online]. Available at: https://arquivos.rtp.pt/conteudos/alvaro-siza/ [Accessed 08 Nov. 2019]. 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Birth Date 1933-06-25 Birthplace Matosinhos Training Institution Escola de Belas Artes do Porto (ESBAP) Occupation Architect Teacher Biographical Text Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira was born in Matosinhos on June 25, 1933. He is the Portuguese architect with the most visibility and international prestige. Admiring the American organic Frank Lloyd Wright, the Austrian hierarchic Adolf Loos and the Finnish naturalist Alvar Aalto, Álvaro Siza Vieira discovered a unique identity path in the conception and construction. Assuming a modernist and avant-garde perspective, noticeable in its architectural forms and meanings, he did not forget the Portuguese traditions and gave them special attention, especially with regard to its minuteness and rigor. He is the son of Júlio Siza Vieira and his wife Cacilda Ermelinda Camacho Carneiro de Melo. His marriage to Maria Antónia Marinho Leite resulted in two children, Joana Marinho Leite Siza Vieira and the architect Álvaro Leite Siza Vieira. Between 1949 and 1955, he studied architecture at the Escola de Belas Artes do Porto. He was a collaborator of Fernando Távora between 1955 and 1958, with whom he developed a strong friendship and creative complicity. He is the author of numerous national projects, including the Boa Nova Tea House in Leça da Palmeira, the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, the University of Aveiro Library, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, the Portuguese pavilion for EXPO'98, the Chiado area reconstruction plan and the emblematic Church of Marco de Canaveses. At the international stage he also affirmed his presence. Among many projects, some stand out. In the Netherlands, in 1985, he directed the Schliderswij Zone 5 Recovery Plan from Hague. In Spain, he outlined the projects for the Barcelona Olympic Villa Meteorological Center, the Galician Museum of Contemporary Art and the Faculty of Information Sciences in Santiago de Compostela. In Germany, he was also responsible for the work of the Schlesisches Tor Kreuzberg station in Berlin. In Italy he carried out the recovery of the Campo di Marte in Venice. In Austria, he remodelled the Winkler casino and cafe in Salzburg. In Brazil, he left his mark at the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre. However, his works are found in many other places, from America to Asia, through other countries such as Belgium, France, South Korea, the United States, Canada, Cape Verde, or even the Vatican, where he was invited by Pope John Paul II to the project of a church. His career is linked to major works of architecture excellence in Portugal and around the world, but also, especially in the post-Twenty-fifth of April years, to a social housing action, namely in Porto, having led interventions aimed at integrating degraded areas in the architectural-landscape experience of the city of Porto. He taught at the Escola de Belas Artes do Porto between 1966 and 1969 and returned to this school as Assistant Professor of "Construction" in 1976. He taught at the Faculdade de Arquitetura of the Universidade do Porto, where he gave his last class in October 2003. He is also a visiting professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in the United States, and the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. He received numerous awards. In 1987, he received the Architecture Award from the Association of Portuguese Architects. In 1982, the Portuguese Section of the International Association of Art Critics awarded him the Architecture of the Year Award. In 1988, he received the Architectural Gold Medal from the Madrid College of Architects, the Alvar Aalto Foundation Medal, the Prince of Wales from Harvard University and the European Architecture Prize from the Commission of the European Communities / Mies van der Rohe Foundation. In 1992 he was awarded the Pritzer Prize for his work as a whole, one of his life milestones. In the same year he was made Grand Officer of the Military Order of Sant'Iago da Espada of Portugal. In 1993 he received the National Architecture Award. In 1999 he was made Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique of Portugal. In 1996, 2000 and 2006 he received the Secil Architecture Award. In 2001, he was awarded the Wolf Foundation award and received the Alexandre Herculano National Architecture Award. The year 2002 was full of awards, as well as the following years, until 2005, the year the city keys of Porto were handed over to him. In 2008 he received the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2010, he received the Luso-Spanish Art and Culture Award. In 2012 he received the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Architecture Biennale, other of his life milestones. In 2015, he received the "Life and Work Award" from the Portuguese Society of Authors. Finally, in 2017 was made Grand Cross of the Order of Public Instruction of Portugal. Álvaro Siza Vieira is a doctor of honoris causa at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the University of Palermo, the Menendez Pelayo University of Santander, the National University of Ingeniería in Lima, the Universidade de Coimbra, the Universidade Lusíada do Porto, the Federal University of Paraíba, the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II of Naples, the University of Architecture and Urbanism Ion Mincu of Bucharest, the Università degli Studi di Pavia, the University of Palermo, the Universidade de Lisboa, the Universidade de Aveiro, the University of Seville, the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Granada and the Universidade de Évora. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the AIA, the Académie d'Architecture de France and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Bibliography BELÉM, M. (2012). O Essencial Sobre Álvaro Siza Vieira. Lisboa, Leya. "Álvaro Siza Vieira". In Antigos Estudantes Ilustres da Universidade do Porto, [online]. Available at: https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/web_base.gera_pagina?p_pagina=antigos%20estudantes%20ilustres%20-%20%c3%a1lvaro%20siza%20vieira [Accessed 06 Nov. 2019]. Biography Available Soon Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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