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Alcino Soutinho

Graduated from the School of Fine Arts of Porto in 1957, the year in which he began his activity as an architect, Alcino Soutinho received a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1961 to continue his research studies on Museology in Italy, where he took contact with several Italian architects who influenced him early in his career. He worked until 1971 at Fundação das Caixas da Previdência, where he designed several affordable housing projects in the Northern Portugal. From 1973, he was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts and later at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. The design of the new building for the Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Museum in Amarante, in 1977, brought him international recognition and, in 1982, he received the “Europa Nostra” Prize for the work of restoration of the Castle of Vila Nova de Cerveira and its adaptation into a Pousada. In 1984, he was awarded the International Association of Art Critics Prize. However, it is with the work of the new Town Hall of Matosinhos, completed in 1987, that he obtained national and international acclaim.