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About The Architect
Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura (born on July 25, 1952 in Porto) is a Portuguese architect. Moura currently lives and works in Porto where he has built several internationally acclaimed buildings. He studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, receiving his degree in 1980. From 1974 to 1979 he worked with Álvaro Siza Vieira at his architectural practice.
About The Architect
Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura (born on July 25, 1952 in Porto) is a Portuguese architect. Moura currently lives and works in Porto where he has built several internationally acclaimed buildings. He studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, receiving his degree in 1980. From 1974 to 1979 he worked with Álvaro Siza Vieira at his architectural practice.
From 1981 to 1990, Souto Moura was assistant professor at his alma mater, and was later appointed Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.
He has been visiting professor at the architectural schools of Geneva, Paris-Belleville, Harvard University, Dublin, ETH Zurich and Lausanne, and has participated in numerous seminars and given many lectures both in Portugal and abroad. His work has appeared in various publications and exhibitions.
He has been awarded the following prizes: the António de Almeida Foundation prize; the Antero de Quental Foundation prize; 1st prize in the Competition for the Restoration of Giraldo Square in Évora, Portugal; 1st prize in the Competition for the CIAC Pavilions; 1st prize in the Competition for a Hotel in Salzburg, Austria; 1st prize in the "IN/ARCH 1990 for Sicily" Competition; the Secil Prize for Architecture;honourable mention for his Miramar House in the Secil Architectural Prizes; honourable mention for both the SEC Cultural Centre and the Alcanena House in the National Architectural Prizes. read more on wiki
Product Details
- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications (January 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 8425214289
- ISBN-13: 978-8425214288
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Alvaro Siza's work is recognized internationally for its beauty, simplicity, and gravity. The stark lines and geometric clarity of his buildings produce almost startling experiences of space. Among his earliest projects was a beach bathing complex in Matosinhos, just north of Porto, in which earthworks and a series of concrete walls define pools in the ocean that are enclosed enough to swim in but over which water can flow. This kind of a sensitive intrusion into a site, common to many of Siza's buildings, lends them the serenity of structures much older. Despite the timeless quality of his work, Siza's history is intimately bound up with that of Portugal. Included in this volume is a cooperative housing project he designed in Porto immediately after the 1974 revolution, about one third of which was built under the auspices of a newly-formed housing cooperative. 30 years later, Porto's city council decided to build the rest of the project and refurbish the existing houses. Both phases of building required multiple discussions between the residents and the architect, and reflect the changing political and social life of the country. All projects in this book are documented in full, with sketches, drawings, and photographs, and detailed descriptions by author Carlos Castanheira and Siza himself. Siza's architecture has been defined as continuously experimental; as this generously-illustrated volume makes clear, each of his designs responds creatively to its setting but his work as a whole retains a unity of form. In addition to residential, cultural, and infrastructural projects in Portugal, this book includes the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Puerto Alegre, Brazil, opened to wide acclaim in April 2008, and projects currently under construction including a mimesis museum in Paju, South Korea, as well as a cultural centre in Ceuta and a sports hotel in Huesca, both in Spain.
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- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Phaidon Press (April 4, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0714849464
- ISBN-13: 978-0714849461
