Tomás Taveira
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Tomás Taveira (born 1938) is a
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. He has a degree in architecture from the
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and owns a post-graduation from the
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. Some of his most recognizable works include the Amoreiras Towers in Lisbon, three of the new stadiums for the
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in Portugal and the Allianz Parque stadium in São Paulo, Brazil.


Works

Tomás Taveira's emblematic buildings include: * Alfragide Towers *Zona J Housing Complex *Amoreiras Towers, Lisbon, Portugal *Arco-Íris Building, Lisbon, Portugal *BNU building, Av. 5 de Outubro, Lisbon, Portugal * Aveiro Stadium, Aveiro, Portugal *
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, Lisbon, Portugal * Leiria Stadium, Leiria, Portugal *New Arena Palestra Itália,
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Controversies


Video recordings affair

In the 1980s he was involved in a
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controversy when some personal home-made recordings he kept in
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were fortuitously discovered by his maid; unbeknownst to him, these recordings were duplicated and then used in an
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attempt against him. Although Taveira initially complied with his former maid's demands, the recordings nevertheless found their way to the Portuguese magazine ''Semana Ilustrada'', which had offered a substantial monetary reward in exchange for the copies. 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 magazine. The infamous recordings with hardcore sexual content were made available in VHS tapes that spread to the general public and later on to
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networks and pornographic video websites which accept user submissions. Due to the scandal and related negative publicity, Taveira faced serious personal and professional setbacks until the late 1990s.


Bairro do Condado

The housing complex projected by Taveira in Marvila, Lisbon was scheduled for partial demolition. The main reason behind this municipal decision was urban and social degeneration caused by uncontrollable drug use and traffic, increased crime rates and juvenile delinquency. The building complex proved to be quite propitious to such behaviours as it included 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 Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes Festival.


UTL affair

Taveira was a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the
Technical University of Lisbon The Technical University of Lisbon (UTL; pt, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, ) was a Portuguese public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of preexisting schools, and comprised the faculties and institutes of vete ...
until 2003, when he was expelled due to a disciplinary process.Acórdão do Tribunal Central Administrativo Sul, Processo: 00411/04, Secção: Contencioso Administrativo - 2º Juízo
(March 31, 2005)


References


External links


Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taveira, Tomas 1938 births Living people Technical University of Lisbon alumni 20th-century Portuguese architects 21st-century Portuguese architects