"Porto School of Architecture" and Matosinhos: Full Day Tour

Beyond the "cliché" of Porto as the city of bridges, let's discover the modernist contemporary Porto, which offered the world 2 Pritzker Prize winners: Álvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto Moura. Today their careers continue to expand geographically. The late 1950s and early '60s in town were crucial turning points in which Fernando Távora (1923-2005) and his younger colleague Álvaro Siza established their personal styles while crystallising a wide range of issues to do with modernity and tradition, architectural object and surrounding space. Tennis Pavilion by Távora at Quinta da Conceição, with influences as varied as the architecture from Frank Lloyd Wright and the temples of ancient Japan, and Tea House or the 2 swimming pools by Siza Veira, also near Matosinhos, stand out as seminal buildings. Between 1981 and 1991, Souto de Moura builds The House of the Arts in Porto and gains prestige. This tour aims to be a luxurious program of their most iconic buildings and an unforgetable day starting by the sea.