Curated by Francesco Dal Co and Nuno Graça Moura, the exhibition “Souto Moura: Memória, Projectos, Obras” offers a unique and rare monographic reading of the work of one of the most prestigious Portuguese architects.
The exhibition, which was on display from October 2019 to March 2021, is the first interpretation extracted from the enormous collection that the architect deposited at Casa da Arquitectura in May 2019, consisting of 604 models, around 8500 drawn pieces and all the textual and photographic documentation that complements the projects.
Integrating approximately 40 projects, the exhibition has “invaded” the Casa da Arquitectura: it occupies the exhibition nave with 950 square metres and the House Gallery with 150 square metres. The exhibition material, all original and for the most part never exhibited, is presented strictly as it appears in the Casa da Arquitectura’s Archive, without manipulation or omission.
This exhibition and respective catalogue – published by Casa da Arquitectura and Yale University Press in the PT and EN versions, and by Electa in the Italian version – have an eminently documental purpose, opening up the archive to the public, making it available to the most diverse analyses, interpretations and speculations.
The catalogue features as essayists names such as Álvaro Siza, Carlos Machado, Francesco Dal Co, Giovanni Leoni, Jorge Figueira, Nuno Graça Moura and Rafael Moneo, among others.
A vast program of parallel activities, curated by Nuno Sampaio, Francesco Dal Co and Nuno Graça Moura, complements the exhibition, including cycles of conferences and debates with some of the most relevant national and international figures in architecture and other areas, concerts and a set of guided tours, where visitors can experience the work in its entirety.
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Eduardo Souto de Moura
Eduardo Souto de Moura was born in Porto on July 25, 1952. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Porto, where he completed the course of Architecture in 1980. He was the author of numerous works of rehabilitation that focused on properties of great heritage value, the history and the ruin being the raw material for the design of the new project. History and contemporaneity are not mutually exclusive; sometimes they are juxtaposed, other times they are mixed to create a new object that carries within itself all the energy of the past in the affirmation of the present object.
If at the beginning of his career he approached minimalism, with Mies Van der Rohe as a reference, he later experimented with other paths that explored more complex forms, getting closer to Álvaro Siza, his first master.
He has received numerous awards, including the Pritzker Prize in 2011.
Among others, he designed the Centro de Arte Contemporânea Graça Morais in Bragança and, in collaboration with Álvaro Siza, the rehabilitation of the Museu Municipal Abade Pedrosa and the headquarters of the Museu Internacional de Escultura Contemporânea in Santo Tirso.
Nuno Graça Moura
Born 1972, in Oporto, Portugal
Degree in Architecture (1990-1996) at FAUP, Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oporto.
Internship (1994-1996) and collaboration (1996-2002) at Souto Moura Arquitectos Lda. Collaboration on various projects co-authored by Souto Moura and Álvaro Siza Vieira.
In 2002, setting up of the company “Nuno Graça Moura, Arquitecto Un. Lda”, Oporto, Portugal;
Currently working on several projects in co-authorship with Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Participation by invitation in several architectural conferences, seminars and workshops, both in Portugal and abroad.
Published in several specialised publications.
Nominated for prizes in Portugal, Spain and Germany, namely:
Winner of the “Bauwelt Preis” – category “Living Spaces”(Munich, Germany, 2010);
Finalist for the “IV Premio Enor” (Vigo, Spain, 2009), “Premis FAD” (Barcelona, Spain, 2009), “V Premio Enor” (Vigo, Spain, 2011), 7th prize “Reiners Stiftung Architekturpreis” (Hamburg, Germany, 2011), “AIT Award 2012” – category “Housing” (Hamburg, Germany, 2012), “VI Premio Enor” (Vigo, Spain, 2014). Selected for the “BigMat International Architecture Awards ’15”, Europe.
Project Assistant at EUAC, Coimbra, Portugal (2004-2014) and at ULP, Oporto, Portugal, since 2012. Since 2016 guest assistant at the ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT STUDIO program, directed by Eduardo Souto de Moura, at POLITECNICO DI MILANO – Scuola di Architettura e Società, Polo Territoriale di Mantova, Italy.
Curator of the exhibition “Souto de Moura 1980-2015” at Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, Düsseldorf, Germany, Apr. – Aug. 2015,
Author of the book “Souto de Moura 1980-2015” published by Stiftung Insel Hombroich / Bund Deutscher Architekten.
Francesco Dal Co
Francesco Dal Co (born 29 December 1945) is an Italian historian of architecture. He graduated in 1970 at the University Iuav of Venice, and has been director of the Department of History of Architecture since 1994. He has been Professor of History of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture from 1982 to 1991 and professor of History of Architecture at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera Italiana from 1996 to 2005. From 1988 to 1991 he has been director of the Architectural Section at the Biennale di Venezia and curator of the architectural section in 1998. Since 1978, he has been curator of the architectural publications for publishing House Electa and since 1996 editor of the architectural magazine Casabella.
In 2018 he curated the Pavilion of the Holy See at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale of Architecture. The architects who designed the ten chapels were: Andrew Berman (USA), Francesco Cellini (Italy), Javier Corvalàn (Paraguay), Flores & Prats (Spain), Norman Foster (UK), Teronobu Fujimori (Japan), Sean Godsell (Australia), Carla Juacaba (Brazil), Smiljan Radic (Cile), Eduardo Souto de Moura (Portugal).
He is currently Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies of the National Gallery of Art, scholar at the Getty Center, and Member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Architectural Historians. He is also member of the National Academy of San Luca.