SIZA TALKS 2021

“ÁLVARO SIZA TALKS 2021 - CONVERSATIONS ON ARCHITECTURE”

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18 - 19 NOV 2021

Lotação: 250 lugares

Acesso:  

18 NOV – 5€, com 50% de desconto para Amigos, +65 e Estudantes

19 NOV – 10€, com 50% de desconto para Amigos, +65 e Estudantes

2111 SIZA TALKS 2021

A site is worth for what it is,

but also for what it could be or what it wants to be.

Álvaro Siza

As part of its commitment to architecture, in 2021 the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art will be hosting the third edition of "The Álvaro Siza Talks", an event that brings together architects, scholars and students for the discussion of issues relevant to contemporary architecture while celebrating the spirit of Álvaro Siza's work. Each edition of the Talks is centred around a different topic that aims at fostering discussion and debate in connection to themes and values expressed in Siza's architecture.

 

Since the very beginning of his architectural practice, Siza's work has been strongly informed by a unique reading of the notion of place and he has often stated that, for him, a project starts the moment he visits the site. Whether in the historic city, in urban peripheries or in the remotest of locations, his work always engages in conversation with place. However, this conversation has taken different forms: at the Boa Nova Tea House in Leça da Palmeira, Siza's first built public building (1958-63), he established a relationship of continuity between the roofs and the rocky landscape facing the Atlantic Ocean, while at the Ocean Swimming Pools (1961-66), just a few years and a few hundred meters away, he sought a relationship of opposition with the very same Ocean, through the careful disposition of a series of concrete walls.

 

The theme proposed this year's edition of the Talks, "Conversations with Place", aims at raising a discussion of the very notions of place and site, and their role in contemporary architectural practice.

  

This year's opening lecture will be delivered Anne Lacaton (recipent, together with his partner Jean-Philippe Vassal, of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2021). Speakers include Sheila O'Donnell, Carme Pinós, Paulo David, Cino Zucchi and Juhani Pallasmaa. 

In addition to Álvaro Siza, the Scientific Committee of “The Álvaro Siza Talks” is composed of Farrokh Derakhshani (Director of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture), Eduardo Souto de Moura, Carles Muro and Philippe Vergne (Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art).

  

"The Álvaro Siza Talks" are organized by the Serralves Foundation in collaboration with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

 

Programme

  

Thursday, November 18

 

19:00   Opening remarks

19:30   Opening lecture

            Anne Lacaton (Lacaton & Vassal, Paris)

 


Friday, November 19

 

10:30   Carles Muro [Opening remarks]

11:00   Sheila O'Donnell (O'Donnell + Tuomey, Dublin)

12:30   Paulo David(Paulo David Arquitectos, Funchal)

 

16:00   Cino Zucchi(CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti, Milan)

17:30   Carme Pinós (Estudio Carme Pinós, Barcelona)

 

19:30   Juhani Pallasmaa (Helsinki)

 

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Paulo David
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Cino Zucchi
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Anne Lacaton
Anne Lacaton
Juhani Pallasmaa
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Carme Pinós
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Sheila O'Donnell
Sheila O'Donnell
Carles Muro
Carles Muro
Paulo David
Paulo David

Paulo David

He was born and lives in Funchal, on Madeira Island where he founded his own atelier in 1996.

He is currently Visiting Professor in Scuola di Architettura, Polo di Mantova, Politecnico di Milano, since 2016 and in Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal since 2019 and has been invited to teach in

international Universities in France, Italy, Spain, Chile, Brasil and USA.

 

Paulo David was honoured with the attribution of career prizes, as the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2012; the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture in Paris, 2017 and the AICA award in 2007.

Besides his activity as an architect, Paulo David founded the Architecture Laboratory for the city of Funchal Atelier Funchal, and co-coordinated the atelier for urban studies Gabinete da Cidade, as a result of the major fires in Madeira in the Summer of 2016.


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