Alvaro Siza

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira  (born 25 June 1933) is a Portuguese architect, and architectural educator. He is internationally known as Álvaro Siza  and in Portugal as Siza Vieira.  Siza completed his first built work (four houses in Matosinhos) even before completing his studies in 1954, the same year that he first opened his private practice in Porto.  Along with Fernando Távora, he soon became one of the most notable faculty member of the Porto School of Architecture, where both were teachers. Both architects worked together between 1955 and 1958. Another architect he has collaborated with is Eduardo Souto de Moura, e.g. on Portugal’s flagship pavilions at Expo ’98 in Lisbon and Expo 2000 in Hannover, as well as on the Serpentine Pavillon 2005. Siza’s work is often described as “poetic modernism”;^[3] he himself has contributed to publications on Luis Barragán. His work may also be considered minimalist, due its focus on simplicity and balance…Wikipedia