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In collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design has announced a lecture by renowned Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. Taking place at Convocation Hall on September 25th, the lecture comes in the wake of Siza's recent decision to donate his personal archives to the CCA, which will see a lifetime of groundbreaking architectural work preserved in Montreal. According to the Daniels Press Release, the lecture will provide an opportunity to "hear the renowned Pritzker-Prize winning architect reflect on his career and work."
Born in 1933, Siza began working as architect by the mid 1950s, quickly becoming recognized for his uniquely nuanced design aesthetic, which combined modernist principles with continuous experimentation, contextualizing adventurous and self-consciously new architecture within its surrounding urban and natural contexts. Often described as "poetic modernism," the architecture elucidates a sense of kinetic freedom that, according to Siza, always seeks to capture a "transitory image in all its nuances."
Siza's work has been greeted with significant acclaim over the last decades, with the Portuguese architect most notably receiving the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1992, as well as the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in 2012. In addition, Siza has is also the recipient the Mies van der Rohe Award (1988), and the Alvaro Alto Medal (1988), as well as a significant number of additional awards and prizes.
According to the University of Toronto's press release, "the Álvaro Siza lecture is the start of a new collaboration between the Canadian Centre for Architecture and U of T's Daniels Faculty that will leverage their respective strengths to advance new approaches to design research, teaching, and curatorial arts, and increase public awareness of architecture and cities's critical role in history and contemporary society."
The lecture will take place on Friday, September 25th from 6-7:30 PM. Tickets are available via eventbrite, with a wait-list created due to high demand. Unclaimed tickets will be released to the rush line at 5:45 PM.
