Tomás Taveira

Tomás Taveira (born 1938) is a Portuguese architect. He has a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Lisbon and owns a post-graduation from the MIT (U.S.A.). Somes of his most recognizable works include Amoreiras Complex in Lisbon, and three of the new stadiums for Euro 2004 in Portugal.

Tomás Taveira's emblematic buildings include:

In the 1980s he was involved in a sex scandal when some personal home-made recordings he kept in videotapes were furtuitously discovered by his maid; unbeknownst to him, these recordings were duplicated and then used in an extortion 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 magazines.

The infamous recordings with hardcore sexual content were made available in VHS tapes that spread to the general public and later on to peer-to-peer networks and pornographic video websites which accept user submissions.

The Taveira sex tapes scenes, also known in Portuguese as Taveiradas, reached a kind of cult status among adult content consumers, particularly Portuguese young males, for a number of years. In a similar way, his detractors use the term Taveiradas pejoratively, to describe Taveira's architectural works which they do not appreciate or consider bizarre. In fact, Taveira's prominence as the (presumably unwitting) protagonist of one of the earliest (and most genuine) occurrences of the now-common fad of leaked sex tapes far surpasses any recognition resulting from his architectural achievements in contemporary Portuguese pop culture. Famous lasting soundbites and memes, originating from the infamous videos, include "Está tudo lá dentro!" ("It's all inside!") during anal sex, "Ui, ca bom!" ("Oh, so good!"), "...a menina da Kookai" ("Kookai's girl"), "Queres óleo?" ("Want some lube?"), "vamos comer a Fatinha" ("let's eat little Miss Fátima") and his celebrated exchange with one of his partners during anal sex: "Queres um batidinho de esperma?"/"Só se for com chocolate." ("Would you like a cum milkshake?"/"Only if it comes with chocolate.") These were widely parodied in Portugal by all sorts of people, particularly teenagers and young adults at the time, and figured in several satirical media for many years since, such as more or less underground comics that featured a Taveira, O Arquitecto Quebra-Bilhas character ("Taveira, The Ass-Ripping Architect"; this name was how the series of leaked videos came to be known at the time).

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