Alberto Soeiro

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Alberto Pires Florêncio Soeiro , Alberto Soeiro for short , (born November 1, 1917 in Lisbon ) was a Portuguese architect .

Life

Prédio TAP / Montepio de Moçambique , Lourenço Marques [Maputo] (1955–1960)

Alberto Soeiro was born in the Portuguese capital Lisbon in 1917 . After completing school, Soeiro began studying architecture in 1937 at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Porto , completing it in 1946. Between 1943 and 1945 Soeiro worked as an intern in Fernando Cunha Leão's office . Like numerous architects, Soeiro shaped architectural ideas and concepts of modernism, including taking part in Portugal's first national architecture congress in 1948.

In 1952 Soeiro was one of the first numerous other architects to move to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, as on the one hand he could hardly find work in Portugal and on the other hand the intellectual narrowness of the Estado Novo restricted him. In Lourenço Marques (today Maputo), but also in the rest of the colony, he designed numerous buildings, both for private and public clients. Among other things, Soeiro was the spokesman for the Association of Architects in Lourenço Marques in 1957. In 1959 Soeiro took part in the Conference Interafricaine sur le Logement et l'Urbanisation in Nairobi .

In 1984 he moved to the Azores, where Soeiro worked as the head of the Office for Housing and Environment in Angra do Heroísmo .

It is not known if Soeiro is still alive.

Prédio 33 (1967), then the tallest building in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo)

Work (selection)

  • 1955–1960: Prédio TAP / Montepio de Moçambique , Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
  • 1955–1960: Edifício Sede das Associações Económicas de Lourenço Marques, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with Nuno Craveiro Lopes
  • 1958–1959: Aero-Clube de Moçambique, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco
  • 1958–1959: Sede dos Serviços de Aeronáutica Civil, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco and Maria Carlota Quintanilha
  • 1959: Edifício Carvalho & Catarino, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
  • 1960s: Nampula Airport, Nampula; together with João José Tinoco and Maria Carlota Quintanilha
  • 1961–1963: Hospital-Sanatório de Machava, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco
  • 1961–1966: Hospital de Dermatologia Dr. Firmino Santana, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco
  • 1963: Urbanization plan for António Enes [Angoche]
  • 1963: Urbanization plan for Manhiça
  • 1963–1965: Urbanization plan for Vila Luísa [Marracuene]
  • 1967: Prédio 33 , Lourenço Marques [Maputo], in collaboration with Octávio Pó and Marcos Miranda Guedes
  • 1969: Faculdade de Agronomia e Silvicultura, Lourenço Marques
  • 1987: Rehabilitation of the designated seat of the Azores regional statistical office

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.repository.utl.pt/bitstream/10400.5/17974/1/1.Manuel%20P%20F%20Chaves_2012___disserta%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20Vida%20e%20obra%20do%20arquitecto%20Jorge % 20Ferreira% 20Chaves% 20% 281920-1981% 292% 20% 281% 29.pdf (p. 97, fn. 351)
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Ana Tostões (ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 448 .
  3. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Aerogare. Nampula, Nampula, Mozambique. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, November 14, 2012, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Elisiário Miranda: Hospital dos Tuberculosos. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 17, 2012, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Prédio "33 andares". In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed January 29, 2016 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Tiago Lourenço: Faculdade de Agronomia e Silvicultura / Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Soeiro, Alberto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soeiro, Alberto Pires Florêncio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal