On Tuesday, 29 June 2021  at 6 PM, on Oris House of architecture YouTube channel, you can watch a lecture by a Portuguese Pritzker Prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza held at the Days of Oris symposium in 2009.

Álvaro Joaquim Melo Siza Vieira was born in Matosinhos (near Porto) in 1933. He studied at the School of Architecture, University of Porto from 1949 to 1955. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, aia/American Institute of Architects, Académie d’Architecture de France and European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Awards, selection: Award of the Portuguese Architects Association, 1987; Gold Medal of the Colegio de Architectos, Spain; Gold Medal of the Alvar Aalto Foundation; Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design of Harvard University; European Award of Architecture of the Economic European Community/Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona; Pritzker Prize, 1992; Gold Medal, Nara World Architecture Exposition, 1995; Praemium Imperiale by the Japan Art Association, Tokyo; Venice Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, 2002; Palladio d’Oro of Vicenza Town Hall, 2003; Royal Gold Medal (RIBA), 2009.