{"id":763,"date":"2022-02-07T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T04:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecubicfeetdesign.com\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T06:04:01","slug":"alvaro-siza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecubicfeetdesign.com\/blog\/alvaro-siza\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvaro Siza – the one of kind Architect world ever witnessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once in a blue moon, a personality is born who is destined to change the world with his perspective and ideology! This happens and the world witnesses a transformation that is bound to affect generations to follow!<\/p>\n

Alvaro Siza is one such architect<\/a> who came, conquered, and had it all!<\/p>\n

\u00c1lvaro Siza<\/a> full name is Alvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira was born on 25th<\/sup> June 1933 in Portugal. He is a world-renowned architect as well as an architectural educator.<\/p>\n

He is more commonly known as Alvaro Siza!<\/p>\n

Early Life:<\/h2>\n

Alvaro Siza was born in the small coastal town of Matosinhos near Porto. He had an interest in architecture from a very young age and was passionate about it and decided to opt for it as a career.<\/p>\n

Siza graduated in architecture from the former School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 1955.<\/p>\n

Career:<\/h2>\n

The expertise of Siza was not hidden by his teachers and fellow colleagues at his alma mater. Before he could finish his studies he had completed his first independent work in 1954 and opened up his own private practice the same year in Porto.<\/p>\n

He also started teaching at Porto School of Architecture and worked with a close friend and teacher Fernando Tavora from 1955 to 1958.<\/p>\n

Alvaro Siza’s work is often defined as \u201cpoetic modernism\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the early works that raised him to another level of fame was a public pool complex that he designed in the 1960s for Leca da Palmeira, a small fishing town in the north of Porto that also serves as a summer resort.<\/p>\n

He built swimming pools for both adults and children in 1966 along with a separate building that had to change rooms and caf\u00e9 while designed in the natural rock formation to keep the views of the sea unobstructed.<\/p>\n

After the revolution of Portugal in 1977, the city government of Evora asked Siza to plan a housing project bringing modernism to the rural outskirts of the city.<\/p>\n

He was also a member of the team that reconstructed Chiado. The famous historic center of Lisbon was unfortunately destroyed by a humongous fire in 1988.<\/p>\n

Famous work:<\/h2>\n

Most of Siza’s famous work is located in his hometown Porto.<\/p>\n

Some of his renowned pieces of art are:<\/p>\n

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