Escola do Porto

Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP), architect: Álvaro Siza Vieira , 1987–1993.

SAAL social housing estate Bouça II in Porto 1975–1977, architect: Álvaro Siza Vieira .

São Bento Metro Station in Porto, architect: Álvaro Siza Vieira .

The Escola do Porto (School of Porto) is a style movement in modern Portuguese architecture .

It was founded in the 1950s by Carlos Ramos and Fernando Távora at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto (ESBAP), which later became the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP). After the Carnation Revolution in 1974, many of its members got involved in the social housing projects of the SAAL ( Servicio de Apoio Ambulatorio Local , German: Mobile service for local support ). It is one of the most influential movements in contemporary architecture in the country, attributable to minimalism and critical regionalism, and has produced two Pritzker Prize winners , Álvaro Siza Vieira (1992) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (2011) .

The main representatives are:

• José Marques da Silva
• Carlos Ramos
• Alcino Soutinho
• Álvaro Siza Vieira
• Arménio Losa
• Botelho slides
• Adalberto Dias
• Alberto Neves
• Antonio Menéres
• Eduardo Souto de Moura
• Fernando Távora
• Viana de Lima
• Goncalo Byrne
• Nuno Portas

Web links

Commons : Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP)
• Associação de Estudantes da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (AEFAUP) - Association of students from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Escola do Porto - Protagonistas. arquitecturaportuguesa.com, 2018, accessed October 12, 2019 (European Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Lisbon Diaries: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Arch + ; Retrieved June 15, 2013.