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Tomás Taveira (born 1938) is a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
. He is among Portugal's most highly-acclaimed architects born in the 20th century. He owns a post-graduation from MIT (U.S.A.). He is also an amateur pornography actor.

s Taveira's emblematic buildings, all in Portugal, include:

he early 1990s he was involved in a sex scandal
Sex scandal

A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the person involved and/or non-sexual norm nature of the sexuality....
 when some home-made recordings were found in videotapes showing him having sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the Penis enters the Vagina. The two entities may be of opposite sexes or not, or they may be hermaphrodite, as is the case with snails....
 and rough anal sex with different younger women.






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Tomás Taveira (born 1938) is a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 architect
Architect

An architect is trained and licenced in planning and designing buildings, and participates in supervising the construction of a building. Etymologically, architect derives from the Latin architectus, itself derived from the Greek arkhitekton , i.e....
. He is among Portugal's most highly-acclaimed architects born in the 20th century. He owns a post-graduation from MIT (U.S.A.). He is also an amateur pornography actor.

Works

Tomás Taveira's emblematic buildings, all in Portugal, include:
  • Torres das Amoreiras (Amoreiras Towers), Lisbon
    Lisbon

    Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
  • Edifício Arco-Íris, Lisbon
  • Estádio Municipal de Aveiro
    Estádio Municipal de Aveiro

    Est?dio Municipal de Aveiro is a football stadium in Aveiro, Portugal. It was designed for Euro 2004 by the architect Tom?s Taveira. It is very colorful and festive-looking....
    , Aveiro
    Aveiro

    Aveiro is a city of some 73.559 people and a List of municipalities of Portugal in Portugal with a total area of 199.9 km? and a total population of 73,559 inhabitants, and 59,860 electors ....
  • Estádio José Alvalade
    Estádio José Alvalade

    Est?dio Jos? 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 Tom?s Taveira....
    , Lisbon
    Lisbon

    Lisbon is the Capital and largest city of Portugal. It is also the seat of the Lisbon and capital of the Lisbon region. Its municipalities of Portugal, which matches the city proper excluding the larger continuous conurbation, has a municipal population of 564,477 in , while the Lisbon Metropolitan Area in total has around 2.8 million inha...
  • Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa
    Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa

    Est?dio Dr. Magalh?es Pessoa is a football stadium in Leiria, Portugal, built as a venue for the 2004 European Football Championship finals and as a new home for the city's main football club, U.D....
    , Leiria
    Leiria

    Leiria is a city and a municipalities of Portugal in the Centro region, Portugal. It is the capital of the District of Leiria. The city proper has 50,200 inhabitants and the entire municipality has nearly 120,000....


Affairs


Video recordings affair

In the early 1990s he was involved in a sex scandal
Sex scandal

A sex scandal is a scandal involving allegations or information about sexual activities being made public. Sex scandals are often associated with movie stars, politicians, or others in the public eye, and become scandals largely because of the prominence of the person involved and/or non-sexual norm nature of the sexuality....
 when some home-made recordings were found in videotapes showing him having sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the Penis enters the Vagina. The two entities may be of opposite sexes or not, or they may be hermaphrodite, as is the case with snails....
 and rough anal sex with different younger women. Since then he gained huge notoriety. The infamous recordings with hardcore sexual content were made available in VHS
VHS

The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by JVC and launched in Europe and Asia in September 1976, and the United States in June 1977....
 tapes that spread to the general public and later on peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer

A peer-to-peer computer network uses diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants rather than conventional centralized resources where a relatively low number of Server s provide the core value to a service or application....
 networks.

Famous remarks on the subject, extracted from the videos, included "Está todo lá dentro" (It's all inside) during anal sex, "Ui, ca bom!" ("Oh ,So good!"), "...a menina da Kookai" ("Kookai
Kookai

Kookai is a France fashion label founded in 1983 by Jean-Lou Tepper, Jacques Nataf and Philippe de Hesdin. It has a simple philosophy: "to supply young women with affordable apparel for their wardrobes"....
's girl"), "Queres óleo?" (Do you need some lube?) and "Vamos comer a Fatinha" (Let's "eat" Miss Fatima). They were widely parodied in Portugal by all sort of ordinary people, particularly teenagers and young adults at the time.

Ph.D. thesis/dissertations affair

Taveira was a professor at the architecture department of the Technical University of Lisbon
Technical University of Lisbon

The Technical University of Lisbon is a Portugal public university. It was created in 1930 in Lisbon, as a confederation of older schools, and comprises, nowadays, the faculty and institutes of veterinary medicine; agricultural sciences; economics and business administration; engineering, social and political sciences; architecture; and hum...
 until 2003 when he was expelled due to a disciplinary process related with capricious wrongdoing by refusing to approve Ph.D. thesis/dissertations.

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