Alexandre Alves Costa (1939) - Sin título

Alexandre Alves Costa is one of the founders of the Porto School as an institution: he helped create the architecture programme at the University of Porto, the school that trained Siza and Souto de Moura, and coordinated Portugal's first doctorate in architecture there. He was born in Porto in 1939 and qualified as an architect at the Porto School of Fine Arts in 1966, after training under Nuno Portas at the National Civil Engineering Laboratory. He has practised independently since 1970 and has worked with Álvaro Siza, Camilo Cortesão and Sérgio Fernandez. As a teacher he helped found the architecture programme at the University of Porto, where he coordinated the country's first doctorate in architecture, and those at Coimbra (1988) and Minho (1997). In 2008 he shared with Sérgio Fernandez the Grand Prize of the International Association of Art Critics and the Ministry of Culture. This five-colour print sets red and black lines over a grey ground.

Original five-colour screenprint by Alexandre Alves Costa, printed in 2014 at the CPS Atelier in Lisbon on 290 gsm Fabriano Tiepolo paper, sheet 70 × 50 cm (27.6 × 19.7 in), image 28.2 × 42 cm. A line drawing in black, grey and red, with arcs, folds and two circles, over a pale grey rectangle.

It belongs to the album 12 Serigrafias de Arquitect@s, published in 2014 by the Centro Português de Serigrafia (CPS) and the Portuguese Order of Architects, curated by the architect Manuel Graça Dias. All twelve works were printed at the CPS Atelier in Lisbon in 2014. The album was first shown on World Architecture Day 2014 and again at the Roca Lisboa Gallery in 2020.

Edition: Copy 79/115. Edition: 115 numbered copies, 15 artist's proofs and 15 H.C., certified with the CPS blind stamp.

Condition: new. The sheet has never been framed or exhibited. Photographs were corrected for light, colour and perspective from shots of this copy.

Sold by a private collector. Shipped flat in rigid packaging.