Tomás Taveira
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Tomás Taveira is a Portuguese
architect
. He is among Portugal's most highly-acclaimed architects born in the 20th century. He has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon
and owns a post-graduation from the MIT (U.S.A.). Three stadiums specially built for the UEFA Euro 2004 were designed by the architect Tomás Taveira.
Tomás Taveira's emblematic buildings include:
when some personal home-made recordings were found in videotapes and sent to the Portuguese magazine Semana Ilustrada. The recordings showed him having sexual intercourse
and rough anal sex with different younger women inside his office at Amoreiras, Lisbon. Since then he gained huge notoriety. The Spanish magazine Interviú
also published photos of the recorded scenes which prompted Taveira's lawyer to request court action against the magazines.
The infamous recordings with hardcore sexual content were made available in VHS
tapes that spread to the general public and later on peer-to-peer
networks. Due to this scandal and related negative publicity, Taveira faced personal and professional setbacks until the late 1990s.
The Taveira sex tapes scenes, also known in Portuguese as Taveiradas, reached a kind of cult status among adult content consumers, particularly Portuguese young males, for a number of years. In a similar way, his detractors use the term Taveiradas pejoratively, to describe Taveira's architectural works which they do not appreciate or consider bizarre.
has recently been scheduled for partial demolition. The main reason behind this municipal decision is urban and social degeneration caused by uncontrollable drug use and traffic, increased crime rates and juvenile delinquency. The building complex has proved to be quite propitious to such behaviours as it includes quite a lot of underused, marginal spaces with difficult possibilities of natural surveillance.
One of the main streets, named The Corridor of Death has been the stage of many gangster homicides and other crimes. The municipality found no solution other than the demolition of some blocks, as it was impossible to regenerate such spaces created by Taveira. This area has been depicted many times in Portuguese film history, including the film Zona J
and the short-film Arena by João Salaviza
, which won the Palme d'Or
at Cannes Festival.
Due to the prejudice associated with this area, the neighborhood decided to switch the name from Zona J to Bairro do Condado.
(UTL) until 2003 when he was expelled due to a disciplinary process.
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
. He is among Portugal's most highly-acclaimed architects born in the 20th century. He has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon
Technical University of Lisbon
The Technical University of Lisbon is a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of older schools, and comprises, nowadays, the faculties and institutes of veterinary medicine; agricultural sciences; economics and business administration; engineering,...
and owns a post-graduation from the MIT (U.S.A.). Three stadiums specially built for the UEFA Euro 2004 were designed by the architect Tomás Taveira.
Works
- Zona J Housing Complex
- Amoreiras Towers, LisbonLisbonLisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
, Portugal - Arco-Íris Building, Lisbon, Portugal
- Aveiro StadiumEstádio Municipal de AveiroEstádio Municipal de Aveiro is a football stadium in Aveiro, Portugal. It was designed for the UEFA Euro 2004 tournament by Portuguese architect Tomás Taveira...
, Aveiro, Portugal - Alvalade StadiumEstádio José AlvaladeEstádio José Alvalade is a football stadium in Lisbon, Portugal, home of Sporting Clube de Portugal, one of the country's biggest clubs. It is the center of a complex called Alvalade XXI , designed by Portuguese architect...
, Lisbon, Portugal - Leiria StadiumEstádio Dr. Magalhães PessoaThe Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa is a football stadium in Leiria, Portugal, built as a venue for the UEFA Euro 2004 finals held in Portugal. It is the home for Leiria's main football club, União de Leiria. It was designed by Tomás Taveira in 2003. The stadium contains different coloured seats as...
, LeiriaLeiriaLeiria is a city in Leiria Municipality in the Centro Region, Portugal. It is the capital of Leiria District. The city proper has 50,200 inhabitants and the entire municipality has nearly 120,000...
, Portugal - New Arena Palestra ItáliaArena Palestra ItáliaArena Palestra Itália, located in São Paulo, Brazil, will be the home football stadium of Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras. It was also known as Parque Antárctica after Companhia Antarctica de Bebidas, a beverages company from which Palmeiras acquired the property in 1920...
(under construction), São PauloSão PauloSão Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
, Brazil
Video recordings affair
In the 1980s he was involved in a sex scandalSex scandal
A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about possibly-immoral sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, famous athletes or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the...
when some personal home-made recordings were found in videotapes and sent to the Portuguese magazine Semana Ilustrada. The recordings showed him having sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
and rough anal sex with different younger women inside his office at Amoreiras, Lisbon. Since then he gained huge notoriety. The Spanish magazine Interviú
Interviu
Interviú is a Spanish magazine published by Grupo Zeta that is famous for publishing semi-nude and nude photographs of the rich and famous, sometimes using paparazzi photoshoots or posed pictorials .It also publishes articles on political and economic scandals, and features opinion pieces by...
also published photos of the recorded scenes which prompted Taveira's lawyer to request court action against the magazines.
The infamous recordings with hardcore sexual content were made available in VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
tapes that spread to the general public and later on peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
networks. Due to this scandal and related negative publicity, Taveira faced personal and professional setbacks until the late 1990s.
The Taveira sex tapes scenes, also known in Portuguese as Taveiradas, reached a kind of cult status among adult content consumers, particularly Portuguese young males, for a number of years. In a similar way, his detractors use the term Taveiradas pejoratively, to describe Taveira's architectural works which they do not appreciate or consider bizarre.
Zona J
The housing complex projected by Taveira in Chelas, Marvila, LisbonLisbon
Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...
has recently been scheduled for partial demolition. The main reason behind this municipal decision is urban and social degeneration caused by uncontrollable drug use and traffic, increased crime rates and juvenile delinquency. The building complex has proved to be quite propitious to such behaviours as it includes quite a lot of underused, marginal spaces with difficult possibilities of natural surveillance.
One of the main streets, named The Corridor of Death has been the stage of many gangster homicides and other crimes. The municipality found no solution other than the demolition of some blocks, as it was impossible to regenerate such spaces created by Taveira. This area has been depicted many times in Portuguese film history, including the film Zona J
Zona J (film)
Zona J is a 1998 Portuguese film, directed by Leonel Vieira. The title is a reference to "Zona J", a zone in the Chelas neighborhood, in Lisbon....
and the short-film Arena by João Salaviza
João Salaviza
João Salaviza is a Portuguese film director and actor. His film Arena won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
, which won the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
at Cannes Festival.
Due to the prejudice associated with this area, the neighborhood decided to switch the name from Zona J to Bairro do Condado.
UTL affair
Taveira was a professor at the architecture department of the Technical University of LisbonTechnical University of Lisbon
The Technical University of Lisbon is a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of older schools, and comprises, nowadays, the faculties and institutes of veterinary medicine; agricultural sciences; economics and business administration; engineering,...
(UTL) until 2003 when he was expelled due to a disciplinary process.