SIZA TALKS 2021
“ÁLVARO SIZA TALKS 2021 - CONVERSATIONS ON ARCHITECTURE”
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19 NOV – 10€, com 50% de
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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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Anne Lacaton
(Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière, 1955)
Graduated from the School of Architecture of Bordeaux in 1980. Diploma
in Urban Planning at the University of Bordeaux in 1984.
She has been visiting professor at EPFL Lausanne (2004, 2006, 2010-2011
and 2017), at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2011 and 2015), at Sassari
University in Alghero (2014 and 2015) and at TUDelft (2016-2017), among others.
Professor at ETH Zürich since 2017.
Anne Lacaton is founding partner, with Jean-Philippe Vassal, of Lacaton
& Vassal, established in Paris in 1989. Their work spans from public
buildings and housing to urban planning. Main projects completed by the office
comprise the Regional Contemporary Art Centre FRAC in Dunkerque, the renovation
of the Contemporary Art museum "Palais de Tokyo" in Paris, the
Architecture School in Nantes, the Café Una at the Museumsquartier in Vienna,
transformations of modern social housing as well as numerous collective and
individual housing projects like the house Latapie in Bordeaux, the house in
the trees in the bay of Arcachon, the Cité Manifeste in Mulhouse or the social
and student housing in Paris.
Lacaton & Vassal, together with Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin
were the recipients of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture –
Mies van der Rohe Award in 2019 for their transformation of three buildings, comprising 530 dwellings, at the Cité du Grand Parc in Bordeaux.
In 2021, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal were the recipients of the
Pritzker Architecture Prize.