He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza, graduated in architecture in 1955, at the former School of Fine Arts from the University of Porto, the current Faup - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto.
Where he taught from 1966 to 1969, returning in 1976. in 1992, he was awarded with the Pritzker Prize for 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.
Other rewards includes 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 1988, the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988, the Prince of Wales Prize from Harvard University in 1998, Portugal's National Prize of Architecture 1993, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2001, the Urbanism Special Grand Prize of France 2005.More recently he was announced as RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medallist. ~wiki
Where he taught from 1966 to 1969, returning in 1976. in 1992, he was awarded with the Pritzker Prize for 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.
Other rewards includes 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 1988, the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1988, the Prince of Wales Prize from Harvard University in 1998, Portugal's National Prize of Architecture 1993, the Wolf Prize in Arts in 2001, the Urbanism Special Grand Prize of France 2005.More recently he was announced as RIBA's 2009 Royal Gold Medallist. ~wiki
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