Municipal Museum Abade Pedrosa and International Contemporary Sculpture Museum Santo Tirso, Portugal Alvaro Siza Vieira and Eduardo Souto de Moura

摘要

With origins in the 10th century, it isn't so much that the Monastery of Sao Bento (St. Benedict) took root in the northern Portuguese city of Santo Tirso, but rather that the city of 70,000 grew around the monastery. The current monastic complex dates back to the 1700s, and 300 years later, a wing was devoted to the city's new archaeological museum-with artifacts collected by Abbot Joaquim Augusto da Fonseca Pedrosa. Enter the 21st century, and the city wanted to usher in (another) new era for the monastery site, this time in the form of a revamped Municipal Museum Abade Pedrosa (MMAP) and an International Contemporary Sculpture Museum (ICSM) housed in a new building that would complement, but not compete with, the national landmark. For that they turned to two of Portugal's native sons, Alvaro Siza Vieira, hon. faia, and Eduardo Souto de Moura, hon. faia. Both Pritzker Prize winners, the long-time collaborators run separate practices out of the same building in Porto.