3/11/2025 - 3/12/2025
Porto - Guimarães
On March 11 and 12, the symposium “Enraizar: de Alvar Aalto a Álvaro Siza” will take place, organized by Professor Eduardo Fernandes of EAAD and Professor Pedro Borges de Araújo of IF-FLUP.
The theme of this symposium is the formal and methodological proximity of Álvaro Siza to Alvar Aalto, which the Portuguese architect acknowledges in various texts and interviews. Based on the consideration of a common element in the work of the two authors, the adaptation to the context of external influences, several authors were invited to reflect on the work of the Portuguese architect and his relationship with the methodology of the Finnish master.
On March 11, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at the Marques da Silva Foundation in Porto, there will be a morning session that can be followed in person and online, with the participation of Juhani Pallasmaa, Opa Koponen, Miguel Borges de Araújo, Juan Domingo Santos and Carmen Moreno. In the afternoon there will be an exclusively face-to-face session with Alexandre Alves Costa, Jorge Figueira, Luís Urbano, Carlos Chaves de Almeida and Pedro Ramalho.
The following day, March 12, the event will continue in Guimarães, at the Architecture Building (09) on the Azurém Campus of the University of Minho, between 10am and 6pm; there will be two exclusively face-to-face sessions (free entry, subject to room capacity) with the participation of Sofia Miguens, Antonio Río Vázquez, Paulo Tormenta Pinto, Luís Miguel Correia, Teresa Ferreira, João Rapagão, João Cabeleira, Ivo Oliveira, Paulo Mendonça, Natacha Moutinho and Elisiário Miranda.
At the end of the meeting, the aim is to obtain a multidisciplinary perspective on the theme of adapting external models to the local context in the work of Alvar Aalto and Álvaro Siza.
