Eduardo Souto de Moura

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Eduardo Souto de Moura (2004)
Facade of the office building Burgo Empreendimento in Porto behind a statue of the painter and sculptor Ângelo de Sousa
Municipal stadium in Braga , Portugal
Porto Trindade Metro Station in Porto
Casa das Histórias Paula Rego (2005-09), Cascais

Eduardo Elísio Machado Souto de Moura , also Souto Moura for short (born July 25, 1952 in Porto ) is a Portuguese architect .

He is considered one of the most prominent representatives of contemporary Portuguese architecture from the ranks of the Escola do Porto . In 2011 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize , the most important architecture prize , for his life's work .

Life

While studying architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto , a department of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto , Souto de Moura learned from the well-known architects Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza Vieira . While Siza - who received the Pritzker Prize in 1992 - started a world career, Souto de Moura remained more attached to northern Portugal, but developed his own style early on.

As a student he worked as an architect, from 1974 with Noé Dinis, from 1975 to 1979 with Siza. From 1980 he ran his own architecture office, one year later he surprised everyone by winning the competition for the cultural center of the State Secretariat for Culture (Centro Cultural da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura) in Porto. He was able to consolidate the national and international reputation that he gained from this with the contract for a new hotel building in the historic center of Salzburg .

In 1981 Souto Moura became assistant professor at ESBAP in Porto, from 1991 professor. He was visiting professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), the Harvard University Graduate School of Design , the School of Architecture at the University College Dublin , the ETH Zurich and the EPFL Lausanne . He has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2010 .

Souto de Moura now lives and works in Porto .

Act

Early on, he wanted to give his buildings a certain mood without adding unnecessary elements. According to his own statement, the wall is the central and supporting element of a building for him. On this basis, stone is the most important building material for Souto de Moura. In addition to marble and granite as natural stones, he also used concrete as an artificial stone for the implementation of his design concepts.

Even during the decades-long Salazar dictatorship, under which architecture was also corrupted, Siza Vieria and Souto de Moura were among those who dared to venture out and wanted a new, artistically ambitious and yet popular architecture that would solve the urgent housing shortage that also opened up new opportunities for the small communities in the shadow of the larger cities. On the other hand, despite all the necessities, they also wanted to re-establish architecture as art . However, her career did not begin until after the Carnation Revolution in 1974. “Back then there was a lot of dialectical materialism and little pragmatism.” Siza Vieira, who already had a name at the time and with whom he had been with for two years, advocated such an affordable apartment cooperated in building social housing.

Moura criticizes the fact that the works of modern architecture in Portugal are often neglected today, such as the Estádio Municipal de Braga designed by him , where VIP cars are now parked in a Greek portico that has been disfigured by fixtures. Architects' copyrights are insufficiently recognized in Portugal. On the occasion of the construction of the Foz Tua dam, Moura also dealt with the ecological movement that wanted to produce green energy without concrete ( verde, sí; cemento, no ). The only one of his works that, according to him, has never been criticized is the museum for the painter Paula Rego in Cascais: "Even the donkeys like that."

Foz Tua Dam

Souto de Moura is considered an intellectual who writes easy-to-read essays and books on architecture that, unlike many works by his professional colleagues, do not exhaust themselves in debates on form and magnificent photos. Until the Pritzker Prize was awarded, they were too rarely taken into account beyond the borders of Portugal.

honors and awards

Moura has been the subject of documentaries several times, including as one of the six architects portrayed in Michael Blackwood's film The New Modernists: 6 European Architects (1992). In 2012 the American director Thom Andersen dedicated himself to Moura's work with Reconversão .

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

  • Nevogilde House 1 + 2 (1983 and 1985)
  • Renovation and remodeling of the Pousada Santa Maria do Bouro in Amares (1989-97)
  • Institute of Earth Sciences, Aveiro University (1990-94)
  • Porto Cultural Center (1991)
  • Residential building on Rua do Teatro, Foz do Douro, Porto (1992-95)
  • Porto Art Gallery (1997)
  • Portuguese Pavilion at Expo 2000 (2000)
  • Burgo Tower in Porto
  • Municipal football stadium in Braga (2000)
  • Casa das Histórias Paula Rego (2005–2009), museum in Cascais near Lisbon
  • Villa in Bom Jesus near Braga (2007)
  • Caldelas swimming pool (Amares)
  • Foz Tua dam near Alijó (2011–2016) with a form of double-curved dam crest, which is extremely challenging in terms of formwork, in which an overflow mechanism is integrated

In addition to these outstanding projects, Souto de Moura has designed many residential and smaller public buildings. Most of the subway stations in Porto that have recently been built also bear his design signature . His buildings are in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland.

Web links

Commons : Eduardo Souto de Moura  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry by Eduardo Souto de Moura at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, accessed on October 13, 2014
  2. ↑ Larger image of the dam
  3. ↑ J. Martín del Barrio: Y a los 67 años, Souto de Moura dibujó una curva. In: El País , October 26, 2919, p. 32.
  4. ^ Website of the Pritzker Prize: Eduardo Souto de Moura. 2011 Laureate. Retrieved May 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ University of Aveiro website: doutores honoris causa pela UA (Portuguese) ( Memento of April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Israel's prestigious Wolf Prize honors scientists, architect. Haaretz , January 3, 2013 (English).
  7. ^ Discussion of the Souto Moura Chapel
  8. ^ Christian Gänshirt: Revision of the General Plan - New Buildings of the University of Aveiro, Portugal , in: Bauwelt No. 28/29, 1994, pp. 1568–1587
personal data
SURNAME Souto de Moura, Eduardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Machado Souto de Moura, Eduardo Elísio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH postage