October 2008
Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira, is among Portugal's most famous architects and has joined the exclusive RIBA Royal Gold Medal club which includes the likes of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe.
Although he has yet to build a permanent structure in the UK, the Pritzker Prize-winner designed the Serpentine Gallery's 2005 summer pavilion in London with long-time collaborator Eduardo Souta de Moura.
Siza is known for his minimal Modernist structures, including the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, Portugal, completed in 1997, the Marco de Canavezes Church, and the Faculty of Architecture for the University of Porto, finished in 1993.
Earlier this year he completed the Art Museum at Porto Alegre in Brazil.
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