Présentation de l'éditeur :
Eduardo Souto de Moura was born in and is based in Oporto. From 1974 to 1979 he collaborated with Alvaro Siza, and in 1980 he obtained his architecture degree from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes di Porto and opened his own architecture studio in Oporto. He has taught as a visiting professor in Paris-Belleville, Harvard, Dublin, Zurich, and Lausanne.
Since opening his studio he has completed a wide range of projects including, most notably private houses, but also multifamily housing, a cultural center, a city market, a museum, and a state-owned hotel in a historic monastery. Souto de Moura’s aesthetic interests are influenced by architectural ruins, interstitial urban spaces, and neglected peripheries. Many of his houses feature walls of chiselled granite blocks, steel-framed façades of reflecting glass, and floors of Brazilian tropical wood. More generally, his work deals with the rapport between nature and architecture; he is a great admirer of the artists Donald Judd and Robert Morris, both of whom incorporate minimalism, modernism, and the environment in their works.
His house in Moledo, Portugal (1998), featured in this volume, exemplifies Souto de Moura’s approach: the house is a long, horizontal, one-story ribbon of glass and wood sandwiched between low granite walls that step down a terraced hill toward the sea. Public spaces face the ocean, while the bedrooms face tall granite blocks that block the view and provide privacy. For Souto de Moura, it is architecture that marks continuity with the traces of time and with the materials native to a particular place.
Among the projects included in this monograph are the Central Market in Braga (1980-84), private houses in Nevogilde, Porto (1982-95) and at Quinta do Lago in the Algarve (1984-89), the pousada of Santa Maria do Bouro (1989-98), a state-owned inn converted from a former convent, the Department of Geology building at the University of Aveiro (1990-94), the Museum of Transportation in Porto (1993-95), and the Portuguese pavilion for the Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany (designed with Alvaro Siza). Most recent projects are a new parochial complex in Milan, Quarto Oggiaro (2001), and the new sports stadium in Braga, under construction with a projected completion date of 2004.
table of contents
"Fernando Tavora, Alvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura" by Antonio Esposito and Giovanni Leoni/"In Search of a Rule: The Architecture of Eduardo Souto de Moura" by Giovanni Leoni
"Construction and Detail" by Antonio Esposito
more than 90 works and projects
essays by Souto de Moura
Chronology of Works
Collaborators
Biographical Interview
General Bibliography.
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