Siza, Baroque Chamber Exhibition

The exhibition Siza, Baroque Chamber opens at the Soares dos Reis National Museum on September 12 at 6 p.m., with free admission.

Open to the public until December 31, the exhibition is the result of the “Siza Barroco” project – ranked first in the competition launched in 2021 by the Foundation for Science and Technology, for IC&DT projects in the field of Álvaro Siza’s architecture – and concludes the research carried out over the last three years at the Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU/FAUP).

Siza, Baroque Chamber is an exhibition that brings together 18 works by the architect Álvaro Siza, covering different periods of his work, studied by a team of researchers, coordinated by José Miguel Rodrigues (Head Researcher of the ‘Siza Barroco’ project and current director of the Research Center) and Joana Couceiro (Integrated Researcher and co-responsible for the project), both curators of the exhibition with Constança Pupo Cardoso (Designer and assistant curator of the exhibition).

The works by Álvaro Siza selected for this exhibition show the affinity that the author’s compositions have established with the “Idea of Baroque” from an early age, focusing on works begun in the 1970s and 1980s, according to the researchers, the most ideologically baroque.