The society is to award Siza Vieira with a lifetime career award in keeping with his status as “the best known and international award-winning of Portuguese architects” with the statement pointing out Eduardo Lourenço and Júlio Pomar as former winners.
In turn, Oporto Municipal Council is this year’s winner of the “best council cultural programme” award in recognition of its “intense cultural work carried out in recent years.”
The society said it would soon be releasing a full list of nominees and award winners from across its series of awards with other categories including cinema, literature, music and the arts that have been made annually since 2010.