This presentation is about second generation urban thinkers- Álvaro Siza Vieira.pptx

This presentation is about second generation urban thinkers- Álvaro Siza Vieira

1. Álvaro Siza Vieira

2. Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira was born in 1933 in Matosinhos near the city of Porto in Portugal. He graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Porto in 1955 after 6 years of study, later teaching there between 1966 and 1969. He always had an admiration for the works of Adolf Loos , Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto .

3. early on was able to establish his own language, based not only on the international modernist references but also the strong building tradition of Portugal. Thus, Alvaro Siza , presents unique works in the modern Portuguese scenery.

4. "I am against this idea of specialization. I like to diversify my work, and I've done a bit of everything. You can not make a good housing estate or a museum without having done houses. The architecture is only one. The hands that draw and the hands that build are always the same.” Álvaro Siza

5. Projects 1958-1963: Boa Nova restaurant in Matosinhos . 1958-1965: Quinta de Conceição   swimming-pool. 1962: Miranda Santos House. 1966:  Leça da Palmeira  swimming-pool. 1981-1985: Avelino Duarte House  Ovar . 1987-1993: Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. 1988: Rebuilding plans of the Chiado  neighbourhood after a fire, Lisbon. 1995: Library of the University of Aveiro . 1997:  Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. 1998: Architectural Practice, Porto. 1999: Residential tower, Maastricht. 2002: Southern Municipal District Center, Rosario, Argentina (first work by Siza in South America )/ 2005: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005. 2008: Iberê Camargo Foundation, Porto Alegre , Brazil. 2009: New Orleans tower, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

6. In 1987, the dean of Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Spanish architect José Rafael Moneo , organized the first show of Siza’s work in the United States . In 1992, he was awarded with the renowned  Pritzker Prize for the renovation project that he coordinated in the Chiado area of Lisbon, a historic commercial sector that was all but completely destroyed by fire in August 1988. [3] Other prizes include: The Golden Medal of The Superior Counsil of Arquitecture of the College of Architects of Madrid in 1988;  Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, T he Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design from Harvard University, T he   Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988; Portugal's National Prize of Architecture 1993; The Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Praemium Imperiale  in 1998, T he  Wolf Prize in Arts in 2001, the Urbanism Special Grand Prize of France 2005. Siza's   Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre , his first project built in Brazilian territory. Hewas honoured by the Venice Architecture Biennale with the Golden Lion award in 2002 [5] . More recently he was awarded the RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medallist. [6]