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The Works Of Some Emerging Portuguese Architects

Architecture and Identity:

Pre Research Document.,December 2008 Author:Alvaro Viegas Design,Layout&Graphics :Alvaro Viegas Type Set in :Adobe Caslon Pro Production:National Institute Of Design Guidance:Sanjay Basavaraju&Armeen Kapadia

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This Project of mine right from the outset has been possible due to help from a lot of people who I would like to express my gratitude.First and foremost I would like to thank Prof Paulo Varela Gomes,Delegate Fundacao Oriente in India who has been the backbone of this entire project right from the month of june 2008,all this has been possible due to his efforts and guidance all through these months.Right from sythesising the topic I was thinking about ,to helping me in reference material,guides,and most of all giving me his valuable time ,I am really grateful to him for all that I have been able to put into this project even before I embark on the study. My Parents and my sisters for all their support and advice ,especially my dad for putting up with all my work and helping me in translations which I could not figure out.I would also like to express my gratitude towards Ar.Pushkaraj Karakart who has given me valuable advice during the project formulation period and stills does so even now witht the project entering the crucial stage .My guideProf Ana Vaz Milheiro for all the help and valuable suggestions all through this period,Prof Ravi Hazra Priccipal Goa College of Architecture for his help and guidance.Yvvone from the fundacao Oriente in Panjim for helping me in putting all my documents together and keeping me updated whenever I called in for information. My friends from the VSF international studio,Teresa Moran,Blanca Fernndez,Helena Ceremeno,Juanaon I really appreciate all the help they gave me.Sanjay Basavaraju &Armeen Kapadia for the help in putting the document together. Alvaro 21.12.2008

Aim

Research Methodology

Tools For Research

Project Index

Introduction

Architecture Of Portugal An Introduction

Featured Architects

Featured Projects

Projects Of Alvaro Siza Viera

Projects Of Younger Architects

Projects Of Emerging Architects

Bibliography

Webliography

Project Glossary

Project Site Location &Contacts

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aim

The purpose of this study is to see whether and how contemporary young architects in the specific context of Portugal are responding to the issues of globalization and advancement of technology, yet being sensitive to their environment and the history of their country or region. This is a problem faced by us architects here in Goa everyday. I intend to use this study to learn from relevant examples how the young generation of Portuguese architectshave dealt and are still dealing with this and I am sure this will help me in my future career.

For me rchitecture is a global issue. One should not look as architecture as a mere problem solving operation but a means to relate and coexist in harmony between the built and the unbuilt.For me the site is the biggest clue that one can draw in terms of coming up with meaningful and relevant designs within the sensitive area of intervention

I am aware of Alvaro Siza’s important influence on young Portuguese architects and of his life-long concern about issues of site and identity. This will also be an object of interest. The project will involve a study of the buildings of the emerging architects of Portugal, involving visits to their offices, the study of their projects and works and through collection of available drawings & literature through all sources, my analysis of their work and, at the end: •Submission of a report based on the study conducted •An exhibition to be held in Goa of photographs of mine of recent Portuguese architecture.

“Alvaro Siza Viera”

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esearch methodology

I will carry out a research of the works of the new emerging architects of Portugal based on various aspects of study 1. Building typologies Here I will research three categories of buildings 1. Residential 2. Public building 3. Office building Trying to understand the different ways in which these different programmes lead to different responses from the point of view of architectural identity. 2. Building materials and technologies Here I will make a study on the use of different materials and the method of application in the buildings. In a time of rapid technological change and globalization of materials and building technologies, I will be interested in seeing how traditions are – or are not – respected.

6. The buildings / projects within recent Portuguese architectural history I will look at a few projects that have been built and have become icons in the last 10 years and try to relate them to the evolution of Portuguese architecture over the last 30 to 40 years (since the 1974 revolution and the joining of the European Union in the early 1980s). 7. Discussion of the way the buildings or projects tackle the identity issue. Here I will research in the libraries of Portugal, as well as speak to fellow architects and critics to see how architects of this generation are dealing with the issue of identity. I.e. whether or not these buildings can be called distinctively Portuguese or not, or even if this issue makes any sense to contemporary architects and critics.

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ools for research

I will conduct investigations on the above aspects based on •Interviews with the architects, users, locals as well as fellow architects and critics. •Literature review in libraries in Portugal at the Biblioteca da Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa and Biblioteca da Ordem dos Arquitectos (Lisboa) and other places of my study. •Internet research •Photographs, sketches, drawings of the buidings

3. Site, Location and local culture of buildings or projected buildings Here I will ponder upon how relevant the building is to its site, and if any design clues can be drawn from the immediate surroundings and the cultures of its inhabitants and its influence on the architects design. 4. Education (schooling) and culture of the architects Doing a study on the educational background and schools from where these architects have studied and what might be an influence on their work of a particular architect or a style of architecture. 5. Response of architectural culture to the buildings or projects How the architectural community and press responded to buildings and projects might help to clarify how much the works belong to Portuguese cultures or how much they seem new

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Project Index

ALVARO SIZA VIEIRA

Boa Nova Tea House

Matosinhos, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira pavilion

Piscina de Leça da Palmeira Leça Swimming Pool

Boa Nova Tea House

Fac. of MediaSiences Compostela, Spain 2001

Edifício Zaida, Casa Patio Zaida Building Patio House

Complexo Desportivo Sports Complex

Municipal Libary

Equip. Desportivo RiberoSerralo Ribero-Serralo Sports Complex

Casa do Pego Pego House Sintra, Portugal 2008

Estadio Municipal de Braga

Torre do Burgo

M. Graça Dias/ Egas J. Vieira/ G. A. Dias

Casa em Sintra

Sintra, Portugal

2003

Paulo Gouveia

Centro de Saúde

OPorto,Portugal 1981/1991

Vila do Conde, Portugal 2003

Eduardo Souto Moura

Paulo Providência

Museu do Oriente

2005

Eduardo Souto Moura

Casa das Artes

Conservatório Regional de Música de Vila Real António Belém Lima Vila Real,Portugal

OPorto, Portugal 2000/2003

2005

Eduardo Souto Moura

Teatro (Azul) Municipal de Almada Almada,Portugal

Braga, Portugal 2002/2003

Lisboa, Portugal 2005 JoãoLuís Carrilho da Graça

Barcelona, Spain - 2006

Portuguese pavilion for Expo 98 Lisboa, Portugal 1998

Faculdade de Jornalismo

1989/1997

Viana do Castelo, Portugal 2008

Famalicão, Portugal 1994

Pavilhão de Portugal / EXPO 98

SantaMaría Bouro Amares, Braga, Portugal

Gondomar, Portugal 2008

Marco de Canavezes Portugal

Casa Vieira de Castro Vieira de Castro House

Granada, Spain - 2006

Matosinhos, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira pavilion

Igreja / Centro Paroquial |

Adega Mayor, Winery Mayor Campo Maior, Pt 2003-2007

YOUNGER ARCHITECTS

Eduardo Souto Moura

Matosinhos, Portugal 1966

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Centro de interpretação da Presidência da Republica

Lisboa,Portugal 2005/2007

JoãoLuís Carrilho da Graça

Biblioteca Municipal de 37 Tavira Tavira,Portugal JoãoLuís Carrilho da Graça

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4.3 EMERGING ARCHITECTS Casa no Romeirão Romeirão,Portugal 2005

Laboratorio Chimico-Museu Da Cienca

Coimbra,Portugal 2001-2007

ARX PORTUGAL Nuno e Jose Mateus

João M. Ribeiro,C. Antunes, Desirée P.

Casa no Martinhal Sagres,Portugal 2005

Centro das Artes/ Casa da Mudas

Calheta-Madeira,Portugal 2005

ARX PORTUGAL Nuno e Jose Mateus

Paulo David

Centro de Sangue

OPorto,Portugal 2005

Brejos

Setubal,Portugal 2001-2003

Casa no Litoral

Museu da Luz Cemitério

Maria Clement/Pedro Paceco

Casa em Vila Real

Alentejano,Portugal 1999-2000

Vila Real,Portugal 1998-2003

AIRES MATEUS Manuel e Francisco

George Figueira

Museu do Farol de St Marta

Cascais, Portugal 2003

Marim,Portugal 2003 João Pedro Falcão de Campos

Casa em Afife Affife,Portugal 1998-2003 Nuno Brandão Costa

AIRES MATEUS Manuel e Francisco

Casa em Castro

Mourao,Portugal 1998-2003

AIRES MATEUS Manuel e Francisco

Cartaxo,Portugal 2005 CVDB Cristina Verissimo/Diogo Burnay

ARX PORTUGAL Nuno e Jose Mateus

Casa em deAzeitão

Centro Cultural Do Cartaxo

introduction Portugal, with a privileged geographical position on Europe’s West Coast, has an Atlantic vocation that has always left its mark on the country’s history and culture.

The country’s proximity to the sea had a key influence on the maritime discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries in which Portugal played a pioneering role in connecting together the world’s continents - thus triggering the first wave of economic and social globalisation. Today, Portugal is proud of the many influences that it has assimilated – visible in much of the country’s material and immaterial heritage - and also the influence it has left on other countries and continents, including the fact that the Portuguese language is spoken by over 200 million people. In a territory of only 92 000 Km², there is such a tremendous diversity of landscapes and cultural and historical riches that visitors are sure to find of a wide array of experiences close at hand - whether in the mountains or the sea, in cities or historic villages in the hinterland. With such a long sea coast, it is not surprising that Portugal has witnessed so many sailings and arrivals. This is why we have been open to the world and to communication for so long. We have assimilated peoples of different origins: Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans (who left us our language), northern Europeans and peoples from Mauritania. In spite of all these mixtures, Portugal is one of the oldest nations in Europe. In the 12th century, the country gained its independence from the other kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula thanks to Count Afonso Henriques, who was our first king at his own wish. A century later, with the conquest of the Algarve, Portugal was todefinitively establish its continental border.

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architecture of Portugal

Architecture of Portugal refers to the architecture practised in the territory of present-day Portugal since before the foundation of the country, in the 12th century. The term may also refer to buildings created under Portuguese influence or by Portuguese architects worldwide during the times of the Portuguese Empire. Portuguese architecture, like all aspects of Portuguese culture, is marked by the history of the country and the several peoples that have settled and influenced the current Portuguese territory. These include Romans, Germanic peoples, Arabs as well as the influence from the main European artistic centres, which introduced in the country standard architectonic styles like Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassicism. Among the main manifestations of Portuguese architecture are the Manueline, the exuberant Portuguese version of late Gothic, and the Pombaline style, a mix of late Baroque and Neoclassicism that developed after the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755. In the 20th century, Portuguese architecture has produced a number of renowned personalities like Fernando Távora, Tomás Taveira, Eduardo Souto de Moura and, especially, Álvaro Siza.

Early architecture

Anta (dolmen) in Cabeção, near Mora, intheAlejo. Megaliths The earliest examples of architectural activity in Portugal date from the Neolithic and consist of structures associated with Megalith culture. The Portuguese hinterland is dotted with a large number of dolmens (called antas or dólmens), tumuli (mamoas) and menhirs. The Alentejo region is particularly rich in megalithic monuments, like the notable Anta Grande do Zambujeiro, located near Évora. Standing stones can be found isolated or forming circular arrays . Iron age house in Citânia de Briteiros These sites were occupied in the period around the years 2500-1700 BC and were surrounded by stone walls and towers, a sign of the conflictivity of the time. Starting around the 6th century BC, Northwest Portugal, as well as neighbouring Galicia in Spain, saw the development of the Castro culture (cultura castreja). This region was dotted with hillfort villages (called citânias or cividades) that for the most part continued to exist under Roman domination, when the area became incorporated into the province of Gallaecia. Notable archaeological sites are the Citânia de Sanfins, near Paços de Ferreira, Citânia de Briteiros, near Guimarães, and the Cividade de Terroso, near Póvoa do Varzim. For defensive reasons, these hillforts were built over elevated terrain and were surrounded by rings of stone walls (Terroso had three wall rings). Houses were round in shape with walls made of stone without mortar, while the roofs were made of grass shoots. Baths were built in some of them, like in Briteiros and Sanfins.

The various periods in portuguese architec- Being a periphery country, regarding the Central Europe maincultural diffusion regions, Portuguese ture can be classified as under: • Roman period • Pre-Romanesque • Moorish period • Romanesque style (1100-c. 1230) • Gothic (c. 1200 - c.1450) • Manueline style (c.1490 - c.1520) • Renaissance and Mannerism (c.1520 - c.1650) • Restoration architecture (1640-1717) • Baroque style (1717-1755) • Pombaline style (1755-1860) • Modern Architecture Portuguese Architecture in the 20th century produced somevery interesting buildings and achievements, namely in whatregards its chronological diversity, its spatial and formaloriginality in the European context, its geographicalspreadness (in the Portuguese colonial areas of the time,namely the Atlantic islands, African Guinea, Angola and Mozambique, India, Macao and Timor). Diversity is also the word for the aspects regarding functionaltypologies (with a large number of contrasting examples), andregarding style and technology used in the more significantbuildings. Also the urbanization aspects, with the creation of new cities, in European Portugal as in Angola an Mozambique, was another theme that Portuguese materialproduction developed, mainly in the period of the 1910-1970decades.

architecture evolvedthrough a series of imported artistic movements, which havealong the centuries generated original responses through aprocess that reveals and emphasizes the integrator andtraditionalist aspects of the existing national context. That explains the capacity of fusing the Gothic into Manueline,the Classical and Mannerist themes into the Plain Style, theBaroque into the more simple and standardized Pombaline,and finnaly explains the poetic interpretation of modern architecture made in Oporto school and later on in Lisbon,during the late 20th century. Being - in a creative contradiction -as conservative as openminded to experimentatioandadaptation, Portuguese architecture managed to transform the foreign models, in a way that they were soon recognized and rethought with originality and such power that theiradaptation created very special scales, spaces and forms. In a long-term view of Portuguese architecture, it will be boththe simplicity of forms and the structural clarity that canbest describe it. In this context, the facade assumed a vital importance as an “introduction” to the building(asif thesurface wished to become three-dimensional space andstructure). This aspect connects with Lusitanian tendencyto conceive everything on surfaces, thus somehow disdainingthe importance of volumes and its light-dark play. On the other hand, international cultural movements inarchitecture which were somehow innovative, had somedifficulty in gaining acceptance: for example, Art Nouveau wasmainly understood as a decorative and fashion formal “thing”, and its Portuguese interpretation, the Arte Nova,exhibitedsome spectacular facades as the “Animatógrapho doRossio” (in Lisbon, from 1908), but without any interestingspace interiors.

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rchitects of the featured projects

• SIZA VIERA Álvaro

autonomous university of lisbon and also, from 2005, at the university of évora. he has been invited to several universities, seminars and conferences all over the world.

•BELEM António •SOUTO Eduardo

BIOGRAPHY Born in 25 June 1933 in Matosinhos, just north of Porto in Portugal. Studied architecture at University of Porto, School of Architecture (1949-55). Opened his own atelier in Porto (1954) and began Alvaro Siza’s career by designing smaller works, mainly residences in the late 1950s-1960s. Collaborated will) Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora (1955-58); began leaching at University of Porto (1966); became full professor (1976-present); has taught and lectured outside Portugal at Harvard University, the Ecole Poytechniquc of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Los Andes University of Bogota. Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1992).

•MATEUS, Nuno, ARX

Jose

LIMA,

MOURA,

Born in 1952, Souto de Moura is the “baby”, but was taught by Tavora and worked with Siza before establishing his own practice. His oeuvre encompasses an eclectic mix of projects, including terraced houses, museums, apartments, faculty buildings, stage sets and sports stadia. Perhaps his most celebrated project is the detached house at Travessa do Souto, Caminha (1991–98), which reshapes the terraced landscape to allow the house to nestle into a granite outcrop.

•GOUVEIA, Paulo

•CARRILHO da GRAÇA, Joao Luís

Born in Castelo Branco (Portugal), in 09 of August 1961, has graduated in Architecture from Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 1984 ARX’s projects received numberless prizes, mentions and nominations, namely the International Architecture Award 2006 with the project for the Biblioteca Municipal de Ílhavo (The Chicago Athenaeum) and the Prize AICA 2003 (Associação Internacional dos Críticos de Arte) .

PROJECTS. •Swimming pools, Leca de Palmeira, Portugal, 1966 •Alves Santos House, Povoa do Varzim, Portugal, 1969 •Pinto e Sotto Maior Bank, Oliveira de Azmeis, Poriugal, 1974 •J.M. Teixeira House, Taipas Guimaraes, Portugal, 1980 •Borges and Irmao Hank, Vila do Conde, Portugal, 1986 •“Joao de Deus” Kindergarten, Penafiel, Portugal, 1988 •Residential complex Schilderswijk West, The Hague. Netherlands, 1988 •School of Architecture, Porto University in Porto, 1992

• P ROVI DENCIA, Paulo. joão luís carrilho da graça, 1952, graduated from esbal (lisbon higher-education school of fine-arts) in 1977 and lectured at the faculty of architecture of the technical university of lisbon between 1977 and 1992.

since 2001 the architect has been an invited professor at the architecture department of the 10

(Castelo Branco, 1963) has graduated in Architecture from the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (FAUTL) in 1986. President of the Southern Regional Assembly of the Ordem Arquitectos. He was Vice President of the Direction of the same Regional Section 2005-2007 between. Director of the First Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2007.

•AIRES MATEUS, Manuel e Francisco MANUEL AIRES MATEUS Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of the Universidade Técnica de Lisbon. He worked with Gonçalo Byrne studio, prior to setting up Aires Mateus & Associados with is brother. He as been a lecturer at Harvard University and at the Academia di Architettura in Mendrizio, Switzerland since 2001. He has been professor at Lisbon Universidade Lusíada since 1997 and at Universidade Autónoma since 1998.

merging architects

•FIGUEIRA, Jorge

•FALCÃO DE CAMPOS, João Pedro

FRANCISCO AIRES MATEUS Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of the Universidade Técnica de Lisbon. He worked with Eduardo Trigo de Sousa and with Gonçalo Byrne studio, prior to setting up Aires Mateus & Associados with is brother. He as been an assistant lecturer at Lisbon Universidade Autónoma since 1998 and Professor at the Academia di Architettura in Mendrizio, Switzerland in 2001›2002.

•Graduated in 1984 in Architecture from the School of Architecture, Lisbon Technical University. • Since 1993 he has collaborated with Arch. Álvaro Siza and Arch. Gonçalo Byrne. Invited Professor, teaching the Project course of the Architecture degree at I. S. T. (Higher Technical Institute). His most important projects and works are •Saraiva Lima House at Quinta da Foz in Alcácer do Sal; •Tomé Lopes House, remodelling project at Arco Cego in Lisbon; •Saraiva Lima House in Famais do Meio , Santa Catarina, Alcácer do Sal. Among the nominations and the prizes received, the nomination of Saraiva Lima House in Santa Catarina, Alcácer do Sal, for the final stage of the 2002 Secil Architecture Award and for the 2003 Mies van der Rohe Award stand out.

•GRAÇA Dias, Manuel, VIEIRA, Egas J

•VERISSIMO, Cris- •RIBEIRO, João Mendes tina, BURNAY Diogo Cristina Veríssimo graduated in Architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitectura (FA-UTL) and has a Masters (MarchII) from the GSD, Harvard. She worked with João Luis Carrilho da Graça in Lisbon and with Zaha Hadid in London. She was awarded with a research grant by the Orient Foundation in 1997 to research Pawnshop Towers of Macau. She was co-curator of the Lisbon Architectural Triennale 2007 “urban Voids in the Lisbon metropolitan Areas”.

Diogo Burnay graduated in Architecture at the Faculdade de Arquitectura (FAUTL) and has a Masters from the Bartlett, London. He worked in Lisbon, London and Macau. He was awarded with a research grant by the Orient Foundation in 1996 to research modern architecture in Macau. He was co-curator of the Lisbon Architectural Triennale 2007 “urban Voids in the Lisbon metropolitan Areas”. He participated in the Architectural association, London Visiting Teachers programme (2007).

Licensed in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Oporto, where he taught from 1989 to 1991. É docente da disciplina de Projecto no Departamento de Arquitectura da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra desde 1991, tendo sido Assistente do Professor Arquitecto Fernando Távora entre 1991 e 1998. It is teaching the discipline of Project at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology University since 1991 and was Assistant Professor of Architecture Fernando Távora between 1991 and 1998.

•DAVID, Paulo Paulo David was born in Funchal, Madeira in 1959. He received his diploma in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1989. He collaborated with Gonçalo Byrne Studio, 1988-1996, and with João Luís Carrilho da Graça Studio, 1989. He established his own firm Office of Paulo David Arquitectos, in Funchal, 1996. He received several architectural prizes for Casa das Mudas: Mies Van der Rohe Award 2005, Selected Work; Fad Iberian Architecture Award 2005, Finalist; and Enor Award for Architecture in Portugal 2005, 1st Edition. His work has been published in many books and magazines.

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• Graduated in Architecture from FA/UTL in 1985, was invited Auxiliary Professor at ESTGAD [Caldas da Rainha (1997/2001)], and, currently, invited Auxiliary Professor at DA/UAL (since 1998). He lives and works in Lisbon. •EJV received 2nd prize in the invitation to tender for the enlarwgement of the Headquarters of the Engineering Society in Lisbon (1987), in association with Pedro Ucha. •MGD + EJV have buildings in Lisbon, Almada, Porto, Guimarães, Chaves and Seville published in the specialized press and have been shown (since 1978) in single and group exhibitions.

•BRANDAO COSTA Nuno NUNO MIGUEL LIMA BRANDÃO DA COSTA WAS BORN IN PORTO ON THE 17th FEBRUARY 1970 •Graduated in Architecture by the Porto University School of Architecture in 1994. •Assistant Professor at the Porto University School of Architecture since 1999. • Collaborator of Herzog & de Meuron, in Basel, Switzerland, between 1991 and 1993 and with the architects José Fernando Gonçalves & Paulo Providencia in Porto between 1993 and 1998. •He started working as an self-employed architect in 1998, since which time he has authored several projects for private and public entities, among which: •Renovation of a house and annexes in Guerra Junqueiro (Porto); • House R4-1 (Porto); • House in Afife; •House in Lourosa (Santa Maria da Feira); •House R4-2 (Francelos); House “Luisas” (Entre-osRios); •House in Areias de Vilar (Barcelos); •House in Manhufe (Amarante);

featured projects

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Casa de Chá da Boa Nova/Boa Nova Tea House Matosinhos, Portugal 1963 SAV/01

Siza Alvaro Viera

Piscina de Leça da Palmeira/ Leça Swimming Pool Matosinhos, Portugal

The Boa Nova Tea House was designed following a competition held in 1956 by the city council and won by Portuguese architect Fernando Tavora. After choosing a site on the cliffs of the Matosinhos seashore, Tavora turned the project over to his collaborator, Alvaro Siza. One of Siza’s first built projects, it is significant that the restaurant is not far from the town of Matosinhos where the architect grew up, and set in a landscape that he was intimately familiar with. It was still possible in Portugal of the 1960s to make architecture by working in close contact with the site, and this work, much like the Leça Swimming Pools of 1966, is about ‘building the landscape’ of this marginal zone on the Atlantic - through a careful analysis of the weather and tides, existing plant life and rock formations, and the relationship to the avenue and city behind.

1966 SAV/02

FLOOR PLAN 1:200

Centro Galego de Arte Contempor창nea Art Centre/Center for Galacian Art

Igreja e Centro Paroquial/ Church and P. Centre

S. Compostela, Spain 1993 SAV/03

Marco de Canavezes,Portugal 1997/2006 SAV/04

Faculdade de Jornalismo/Faculty of Media Science

Pavilh達o de Portugal / EXPO 98 Portuguese pavilion for Expo 98

S. Compostela, Spain

Lisboa, Pt - 1998 SAV/06

2001 SAV/05

Biblioteca Municipal/Municipal Libary

Adega Mayor/Winery Mayor

Viana do Castelo, Portugal 2008 SAV/07

Campo Maior, Pt 2007 SAV/08

Equip. Desportivo Ribero-Serralo/Ribero-Serralo Sports Complex Barcelona, Spain - 2006 SAV/09

Complexo Desportivo/Sports Complex Gondomar, Portugal 2007 SAV/10

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EdifĂcio Zaida, Casa Patio/Zaida Building Patio House Granada, Spain - 2006 SAV/11

Casa Vieira de Castro/Vieira de Castro House FamalicĂŁo, Portugal 1994 SAV/12

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Casa do Pego/Pego House Sintra, Portugal 2008 SAV/12

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Rehabilitación Para Pousada del Monasterio cisterciense de Santa María do Bouro/ Conversion of Santa Maria do Bouro Monastery into a state inn Bouro Amares, Braga, Portugal 1989/1997 ESM/01

h/Braga Municipal Stadium Eduardo Souto Moura Monte castro, Braga, Portugal, 2000/2003 ESM/02

Situated in Amares, near the historic city of Braga and the Gerês mountain range, the Pousada de Amares is intriguingly housed in a 12th century Cistercian monastery. In keeping with the Cistercians’ tradition of settling on the most rugged fringes of the European continent, the monastery is rough and almost surrealistically plain. In the process of converting it into a hotel, one of Portugal’s most esteemed architects, Eduardo Souto Moura, sought to ‘find the lucidity that exists between form and function’. For him, the ruins were more important than the actual monastery since they represented material that could be manipulated to more challenging effect, just as the building itself had been throughout the course of history. Many of the rough stone columns and arches of the old structure are preserved, but that which had disappeared over time was not simply reconstructed in imitation.

“The Braga Municipal Stadium is inside the Dume Sports Park on the northern slope of Monte Castro. The site was chosen in order to avoid the creation of a ‘dam’ for the natural line of watering the valley. The alternative would have been to move it further to the west up against the hill, like a Roman amphitheatre... Initially the roof was to look like a long continuous visor (ref. Siza/ Expo)*, but it was eventually modeled on the Peruvian Inca bridges. With a height of 40 metres, the stadium will be set against two squares with the same sloping. This will enable the stadium building to serve as an anchoring point for any future development in the areas as the city expands northward.

Torre do Burgo/ Office Building.

Casa en Moledo/House in Moledo

Eduardo Souto Moura

Porto, Portugal, 2000/2003 ESM/03

Moledo do Minho, Caminha,Portugal 1991/1998 ESM/04

This office complex is located in the Avenida da Boavista, the biggest straight line avenue in Portugal that extends from “Casa da Música” till the Sea in West. This complex opens a large square between the two buildings, one horizontal and the other vertical. The square is occupied by a big sculpture by the Porto architect/sculptor Nadir de Afonso. The buildings were drawn with very simple shapes, following the influences of Mies and the Chicago buildings. The main interest about the building is its façade. Its skin is composed out of a single module that wraps all the volumes. That module was studied so it could fit on 2 different ways creating a glass façade and an opaque façade.

Museu do Oriente/Museum of the

“Casa das Artes”/ CulturalCenter

Orient

Eduardo Souto Moura

João Luís Carrilho da Graça Lisboa,Portugal 2005/2007 JLCG/01

OPorto, Portugal 1981-91 ESM/05

The building is located in the gardens of a neoclassical mansion in Porto, dating from the beginning of the 20th century. The program for the competition proposed a cinema, an auditorium and an exhibition gallery, as well as the conservation of the gardens as they were. This is one of the first built projects of Eduardo Souto Moura. It’s mainly composed of two parallel granite stone walls, with all the programin the middle. With a very minimalistic approach, this building is composed of great building details, reminding some of Mies Van der Rohe’s characteristics.

Biblioteca Municipal de Tavira/Municipal Libriary At Tavira

Centro de interpretação da Presidência da Republica

João Luís Carrilho da Graça

Tavira,Portugal JLCG/02

Lisboa,Portugal 2005/2007 JLCG/02

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Conservatório Regional de Música de Vila Real /Vila Real Music Conservatory.

Teatro (Azul) Municipal de Almada/Municipal Theatre of Almada M. Graça Dias/ Egas J. Vieira/ G. A. Dias

António Belém Lima Vila Real,Portugal 2005 ABL/01

Almada,Portugal 2005 MGEGGA/01

Casa em Sintra /House in Sintra

Centro de SaĂşde/Health Care Center

Paulo Gouveia

Paulo ProvidĂŞncia

Sintra,Portugal 2003 PG/01

Vila do Conde, Portugal 2003 PP/01

Casa no Romeirão, /House at Romeirao ARX PORTUGAL Nuno e Jose Mateus Romeirão,Portugal 2005 ARX/01

emerging

architects

The site has a strong rural character, with small plantations, orchards and pathways limited by roughly made stone property walls and, once in a while, houses, scattered in the landscape. It is a steep slope facing south over the valley, furrowed by a small river and a mountain in the background. While the upper half of the site is ramped, the lower is built in steps. In the transition between both two clear references became the starting point for the project: a walnut tree and a watering tank. The site’s natural beauty dictated the project. The house develops in an intimate relation with the ground, penetrating it as the slope increases and eventually becoming part of the mountain where one can walk; then it is displaced while descending, reappearingon the slope.

Casa no Martinhal, /House at Martinhal

Centro de Sangue, /OPorto Blood Bank

ARX PORTUGAL Nuno e Jose Mateus

Sagres,Portugal 2005 ARX/02

OPorto,Portugal 2005 ARX/03

This house is located in Sagres (Algarve), the furthest southwest location in Portugal. This town hosted the Navigation School behind the “Portuguese Discoveries”, established in the 15th century by the infant D. Henrique. Five centuries have gone by and nowadays these waters are famous for windsurfing. Land is being split in generic parcels of typical resorts, claiming for a superficial architectural idea of a “portuguese house”, to please and sell to foreign tourists. The house was developed along the precise regulations, defined in the urbanistic project, from distances to borders, access and total amount of construction area and volume.

The Oporto Blood Bank is built to support all activities of regional blood collection and analysis as well as its partition in 3 components (erythrocytes, plasma and platelets). These components are later to be distributed to hospitals and pharmaceutical industries. This typology is new and hardly tested. It has a great complexity due to permanent risk of blood contamination. Continuous scientific and technological developments force permanent alterations. It is therefore a building with an unstable interior, wich will undergo frequent metamorphosis throughout its life. The building program is a linear sequential process (of blood disassembly). It suggests to be more adequate a low and fluid construction rather than a high building, as pointed out by the neighboring housing buildings (5 and 6 levels).

Casa em Azeitao

Brejos deAzeitão/House in

AIRES MATEUS Manuel e Francisco Setubal,Portugal 2001-2003 AM/01

An ancient winery is rehabilitated. Its main attributes are a wide space and thick walls. Though introducing a new program, the universal character of the space remains. Together with the existing wall, a new thick wall houses all of the social functions on the main level. Stairs within the thick wall and day lit from above make the light transition from social to private space. The more private areas – bedrooms, bathrooms and a studio– are conceived as habitable volumes in an “impossible” balance, structuring the space. The volumes, articulated by light, modulate the main space of the lower living room, emphasizing its breadth.

Casa no Litoral/Basic House AIRES MATEUS Manuel e Francisco Alentejano,Portugal 1999-2000 AM/02

The program includes four houses and a water tank. The water tank will be a square of whitewashed plaster where a pool is found and a line draws the shower. The placement of the several houses will be decided by each owner. The first house is a square. The living room is disposed around a courtyard that provides indirect lighting. Secondary compartments inhabit the interior of thick walls that form the central living room. These areas, compressed by a lifted ground and a lowered ceiling, become spaces which group to limit and define the “exterior volume,” emphasizing it as the main space of the house.

Museu do Farol de St Marta/ Museum Of St Mary AIRES MATEUS Manuel e Francisco

Jo達o Pedro Falc達o de Campos Marim,Portugal 2003 JPFC/01

Cascais, Portugal 2003 AM/03

Between land and sea, along a strip of land in constant change with he passing of the years, human intervention has gradually settled into the most varied types of inhabitation. From the seventeenth century until now the superimposing of different intentions for this spot, the material and technological resources of the moment and availability of the inherited patrimony have all contributed to a succession of adaptations and additions. Notwithstanding this, the complex encompasses architectural units whose reading is unequivocal, units laid out according to still-clear organisational principals.

Casa em Castro/House at Castro

The state of adulteration and decadence of one part of the complex is the result of a process of natural selection that the project design tries to turn to its favour. Identifying the elements of greater perdurability or greater poetic charge, the proposal reconstructs with, and out of, these a basic order that both encompasses the memory of passing time and makes a new use visible.

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Laboratorio Chimico-Museu Da Cienca/ Chemistry Laboratory To Science Museum JoĂŁo M. Ribeiro/C. Antunes,/DesirĂŠe P. Coimbra,Portugal 2001-2007

MRJ/01

Centro das Artes Casa da Mudas/Center For Art Paulo David

Calheta-Madeira.Portugal 2005 DP/01

Centro Cultural Do Cartaxo/Cultural Center For Cartaxo

Museu da Luz CemitĂŠrio/Museum Of Light Cemetery

CVDB Cristina Verissimo/Diogo Burnay

Maria Clement/Pedro Paceco

Cartaxo,Portugal 2005 VC-BD/01

Mourao,Portugal 1998-2003 VC-PP/01

Casa em Vila Real/House in Vila Real

Casa em Afife /House in Afife

George Figueira

Nuno Brand達o Costa

Vila Real,Portugal

Affife,Portugal

1998-2003 FG/01

1998-2003 BCN/01

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10.0 Essential Bibliography. PERIODICALS JA – Jornal Arquitectos, “Antologia 1981-2004”. Figueira, Jorge; Nunes, Jorge; Milheiro, Ana Vaz; Dias, Manuel Graça (ed.), nº218/219, JaneiroJunho 2005 Almeida, Pedro Vieira de “Uma análise da obra de Siza Vieira”, Arquitectura, nº96, Março-Abril 1967, pp. 64-67.

Essays And Monographies Costa, Alexandre Alves Textos Datados. Coimbra: eIdIarq, Edições do Departamento de Arquitectura da FCTUC, 2007 Fernandes, José Manuel Arquitectos do Século XX - Da Tradição à Modernidade. Lisboa: Caleidoscópio, 2006 Fernandez, Sergio Percurso, Arquitectura Portuguesa 1930-1974, 2ª ed. Porto: FAUP, 1988 Figueira, Jorge Escola do Porto – Um Mapa Crítico. Coimbra: eIdIarq, Edições do Departamento de Arquitectura da FCTUC, 2002 Figueira, Jorge A Noite em Arquitectura. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água, 2007

Webliography & Photo Credits www.google.com www.ultimasreportagens.com www.arquitectos.pt www.arcspace.com www.fernando guerra.com www.arx.pt www.jlcg.com www.flickr.com www.deviantart.com www.foriente.pt www.cvdb.com www.alvarosiza.com www.buildingsonline.com www.bomsucesso.net www.a10.com www.cylex.pt www.marmac.pt www.elcroquis.es

Photo Credits www.flickr.com www.google.com www.arx.pt www.airesmateus.com www.elcroquis.es www.deviantart.com www.arcspace.com www.fernandoguerra.com

Gomes, Paulo Varela “Arquitectura, os Últimos Vinte e Cinco Anos” (Paulo Pereira (dir.). História da Arte Portuguesa. III Volume, Lisboa: Circulo de Leitores, 1995 Siza, Álvaro Obras e Projectos, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Electa, 1995 Siza, Álvaro Álvaro Siza [1986-1995]. Lisboa: Editorial Blau, 1995 56

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