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Alvaro Siza Architect, Building, Porto, Photo, Portuguese Studio, Project, News

Alvaro Siza : Architecture Information + Images

Contemporary Architecture Practice, Portugal, Europe



Key Projects

Portuguese architect
Alvaro Siza
thumbnail photo of the architect, courtesy of RIAS in 2002

Awarded 2009 RIBA Gold Medal

Most Celebrated Alvaro Siza Buildings, alphabetical:
Alvaro Siza Office, Oporto, Portugal
Boa Nova Tea House, Avenida da Liberdade, Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
EXPO '98 - Portuguese Pavilion
Galician Museum of Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Oporto Museum of Modern Art, Oporto, Portugal

Alvaro Siza Buildings - featured

Church of Macro de Canaveses, Portugal
1996
Macro de Canaveses

Llobregat Sports Centre, Cornella, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Alvaro Siza building in Spain

Meteorology Service Building, Port Olímpic, southeast Barcelona, Spain
1990-92
Alvaro Siza, Joan Falgueras, Architects

Full name: Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira

Key Alvaro Siza Buildings, alphabetical:

Alvaro Siza Office, Rua do Aleixo 53, 2º, Oporto, Portugal
10998
Aveiro University Library, Aveiro, Portugal
1994
Boa Nova Tea House, Avenida da Liberdade, Leça da Palmeira, Portugal
1963
EXPO '98 - Portuguese Pavilion
1998
Fire Site Development, Chiado, Lisbon
-
Galician Museum of Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1984
Iberê Camargo Foundation headquarters, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2000-08 [Golden Lion award, 2002]
Malagueira Quarter Housing Project, Evora, Portugal
1977
Oporto Museum of Modern Art, Oporto, Portugal
1996-99
Rectorate, Alicante University, Spain
1999/2000
Schlesisches Tor Apartments, Kreuzberg, Germany
1980
School of Architecture at Oporto University, Oporto, Portugal
1987-93
Setubal College, Portugal
1993
Superior School of Education, Setubal, Portugal
1986-94
University del Pais Vasco – conference hall building proposal, Bilbao, Spain
2008-
Viana do Castelo – Library, northern Portugal
2007

More projects online soon

Alvaro Siza - Temporary Building

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
2005
Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto de Moura
with Cecil Balmond - Arup


Alvaro Siza - Education

University of Porto School of Architecture - Escola de Belas Artes, Portugal
1949-55


Alvaro Siza - Teaching Positions

Ecole Polythechnique Lausanne, Switzerland - Visiting Professor
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Los Andes School, Bogota, Columbia
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, USA - Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor
Oporto School of Architecture, Portugal





Practice Information

Alvaro Siza Architects

Architecture Studio in Porto since 1954
Siza was born in Matosinhos, Portugal in 1933

Alvaro Siza architect : Oporto buildings

Extract re the architect from Review of RIAS Inverness Convention 2002:
'At the very end of the day Alvaro Siza talked to us about only one project, but in great detail: Santa Maria, his catholic church in northern Portugal. Siza's talk was a dialogue between his early childhood memories of what going to church was all about, and what his Clients wanted.'

Barcelona Architects

Private House, Belgium
2002

Portuguese architects

Alvaro Siza : Pritzker Prize Winner 1992

Alvaro Siza Award
Fellow of American Institute of Architects

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

Portuguese Buildings



 
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