Siza is the most famous living Portuguese architect, and probably the most renowned Portugal has yet produced. His work has been recognised as the most coherent architectural design produced over the past one hundred years, and his name has become a reference point in the international architectural circles.

A winner of the Pritzker Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of Architecture), Alvaro Siza has an outstanding curriculum vitae, witch includes many awards of international renown, innumerable top placings in architectural competitions and invitations to participate in projects around the world.