Álvaro Siza, Architect of New Yonsei Business Building, Lectures at Yonsei Álvaro Siza, the architect of the new Yonsei College of Business building, visited the Yonsei Campus on September 3. He expressed admiration for the Baekyang-ro and the old buildings on campus, looking around and praised the beauty of the campus. A winner of the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize of architecture, Álvaro Siza is from Portugal and has held faculty positions at the Porto School of Architecture, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania. His representative work includes the Portuguese Pavilion Expo, University of Aveiro Library, and Muse du Arte Contemporanea de Serralve. In Korea, he has designed the Álvaro Siza Hall at the Anyang Art Park and the Mimesis Museum at the Paju Book City. He also designed the Amore-Pacific Research Building, planned for 2010. The Yonsei College of Business building, Creativity Powerhouse, was also designed by Álvaro Siza, and is set for completion in August 2010. The building was designed to be independent from, yet harmonious with, the rest of the campus. The bridge between the lecture hall and research hall serves as the open space which connects the business building and the rest of the campus. Bridge Between Lecture Hall and Research Hall The new College of Business building is a 50 billion won project, four stories below ground and five stories high. The facilities include 17 lecture rooms, 18 seminar rooms, a conference room, library, 100 research areas, a simultaneous interpretation system, and convention hall. The lecture held on September 3 in the Daewoo Hall offered a rare opportunity to hear Álvaro Siza discuss his own architectural philosophy. Students of architecture gathered for the lecture, where Álvaro Siza explained his architectural process and philosophy, using the buildings he had designed as examples. Toward the end of the lecture, when one student asked what aspect of the new building emphasized creativity, Álvaro Siza answered that creativity cannot come from one aspect of the building. Explaining that creativity must be realized through the people who utilize the space, Álvaro Siza said that he had created many spaces for communication, such as the bridge and various lobbies. He emphasized that a structure that naturally connects spaces inside and outside encourages creative thinking.