International ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings exhibition Cersaie, in Italy this September, will host a keynote lecture by Eduardo Souto De Moura, the Portuguese architect who won the Pritzker prize 2011.
The ceramic exhibition is once again focusing on great world architecture with the Building Dwelling Thinking programme.
On Friday 28 September in the Palazzo dei Congressi in the Bologna exhibition centre, the international ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings exhibition Cersaie will be hosting a keynote lecture given by Eduardo Souto De Moura, the Portuguese architect who won the Pritzker prize 2011.
The event, introduced by Professor Francesco Dal Co, is part of the Building Dwelling Thinking programme and organisers say it confirms the show’s major cultural role for the world of architecture.
Meanwhile, 226 projects carried out in Italy and in the rest of the world using Italian ceramic tiles, the work of over 60 companies, is now online in the Projects Gallery of the portal La ceramica Italiana (www.laceramicaitaliana.it/projects).
38 of these (belonging to 40 brands) have been uploaded by companies since the beginning of 2012.
Eduardo Souto De Moura was born in Oporto on 25 July 1952. Before graduating in architecture from the School of Fine Arts in 1980, he began collaborating with the architecture practice of Noé Dinis, followed by that of another great master of Portuguese architecture, Álvaro Siza. In the 1980s he was assistant professor and then professor of architecture at the University of Oporto, as well as visiting professor at Paris-Belleville, Harvard, Dublin, ETH Zurich and Lausanne.
Some of his most important projects include the Manoel de Oliveira Cinema House in Oporto (2003), the Municipal Stadium in Braga (2003), the Burgo Tower in Oporto (2007), the Paula Rego Museum in Cascais (2008), and the hotel school in Portoalegre, Portugal (2009). In 2011 he won the Prizker prize, the world’s most prestigious architecture award.
