This documentary about the figure and work of renowned Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza (Matosinhos, 1933), one of the main representatives of the Escola do Porto. This movement, which emerged in 1974 after the military dictatorship, is the most influential in contemporary architecture in Portugal.
Alvaro Siza: Transforming actually talks about the work of this architect and covers fifteen of his most emblematic works with architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, for whom Siza is one of the most important active architects today.
Alvaro Siza, whose most recent work in Spain is the auditorium of the University of the Basque Country (2010), has been awarded the most important prizes of the guild, as the Alvar Aalto Award (1988), the Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe (1988) and the Pritzker Prize (1992), among others.
The screening of this documentary film is part of the COAIB cycle, organized by the Demarcation of Mallorca of the Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands.
In the picture, building Schlesisches Tor in Berlín (1988).
