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Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira GOSE GCIH GCIP (born 25 June 1933) is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈalvɐɾu ˈsizɐ]) and in Portugal as Siza Vieira (pronounced [ˈsizɐ ˈvjɐjɾɐ]).
Built between 1985 and 1996 by Álvaro Siza Vieira in Porto the set consists of 10 different volumes, each with its own peculiarities, but which find their identity through color, opacity and constructive solutions.
Álvaro Siza Vieira has 26 projects published in our site, focused on: Cultural architecture, Healthcare architecture, Residential architecture.
Alvaro Siza, who has been praised by his peers in Europe as one this century's finest architects, but is relatively unknown to most of the world, has been elected to receive his profession's highest honor, the 1992 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Jan 4, 2024 · In this context, Portugal boasts a prominent figure who exemplifies this balance: Álvaro Siza Vieira. Siza is the foremost representative of Portuguese architecture. There are many reasons...
Jun 22, 2024 · Álvaro Siza (born June 25, 1933, Matosinhos, Portugal) is a Portuguese architect and designer whose structures, ranging from swimming pools to public housing developments, are characterized by a quiet clarity of form and function, a sensitive integration into their environment, and a purposeful engagement with both cultural and architectural ...
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira (born 25 June 1933) is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈalvɐɾu ˈsizɐ]) and in Portugal as Siza Vieira (pronounced [ˈsizɐ ˈvjɐjɾɐ]).
Jan 11, 2017 · Throughout the 60-year career of Álvaro Siza, his work has continuously defied categorization--having variously been described as “critical regionalism” and “poetic modernism,” with ...
Álvaro Siza Vieira, born in Matosinhos, Portugal on 25 June 1933, was the 2011 UIA Gold Medal laureate, proposed by the RIBA. Often described as a “poetic Modernist”, his first constructions were four houses realised in his birthplace in 1954, one year before he completed his degree in architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da ...
Mar 22, 2023 · Producer and director Augusto Custodio takes a dive into the personal life of Álvaro Siza Vieira, exploring the key influences that have shaped his character and career.
