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This sketchbook includes sketches for several projects in Germany: Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin (including Bonjour Tristesse); Sede da Companhia Dom in Cologne; and Blocke 70 und 89, Kreuzberg, Fränkelufer, Berlin. The sketchbook also contains notes and sketches of people.

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This sketchbook includes notes regarding Berlin projects for the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA), and mention Brigitte Fleck. Also included are sketches for Edifício de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse in Berlin, Germany and sketches for Casa Avelino Duarte in Ovar, Portugal.

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This sketchbook includes notes regarding the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA) and mentions Brigitte Fleck. Also included are sketches for Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin, Germany (including Bonjour Tristesse) as well as sketches for Casa Avelino Duarte in Ovar, Portugal.

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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Quinta da Malagueira housing in Évora, Avelino Duarte house in Ovar, and for Bonjour Tristesse in Berlin, Germany. It also contains a draft of the article A casa do Dr. Fernando Machado: a casa interrompida, as well as a self-portrait.

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This sketchbook contains sketches for Blocke 121, Schlesisches Tor in Berlin, Germany, including Edifício de Apartamentos Bonjour Tristesse, and sketches for Piscina de "Görlitzer Bad" in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. Also inclueded are notes about Évora and Lisbon in Portugal, and a sketch of a project by Fernando Távora.

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This project subseries documents the residential complex Bonjour Tristesse after Siza won the competition for Block 121. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 2/80 A. The office assigned the date 1980 for this project. Among materials for the competition phase are conceptual sketches intermingled with sketches of people, design development drawings including drawings for the model, site plans for the competition site, proposed plans, proposed elevations, and plans for the proposed nursery and school extension. Also included are photographs, negatives, and slides for the competition, and general photographs and negatives of Berlin. Textual documentation includes correspondence from IBA officials, such as Hämer, Kleihues, and Dagmar Tanuschev, as well as letters from Brigitte Cassirer (later Brigitte Fleck). Fleck was responsible for national and international competitions for the Senate of Berlin (1971-1985) and first invited Siza to participate in the IBA competition by entering a design for the Görlitzer Bad swimming pool. Other correspondence included in this project series are letters from Peter Brinkert, Siza’s contact architect in Berlin, in which they discuss the Kita and the Seniors Club Anziani. Furthermore, there is textual documentation from the IBA, as well as historical documentation on the project site and notes.

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The project series documents the 1983 design entry for the competition of the Prinz-Albrecht-Palais Monument to Gestapo victims. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 18/80. The office assigned the date 1983 for this project. This project was submitted to the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA, circa 1979-1987), an urban renewal strategy for West Berlin, Germany. Siza had previously submitted four other projects to this competition: the Görtlitzer Bad swimming pool, Block 70 and 89 (Fränkelufer residential complex), Bonjour Tristesse (Block 121), and Block 11-12. He would also submit a design proposal to the IBA competition for the Kulturforum. According to the documentation from the IBA competition, entries for the memorial were to include a pedestrian walkway that cut through the memorial parallel to Schöneberger strasse leading to Kochstrasse. Entries were also to include a playground and along Stresemann strasse there was to be the addition of a two storey building and a corner building. Other requested components included a parking lot and a partial reconstruction of the Fine Arts School. Documenting the design proposal are conceptual and design development drawings, including studies, a site axonometric drawing, ground plan, site plan and north, south, and east elevations. Also included is textual documentation on the competition as well as correspondence from IBA officials such as Marion Wilbert. Photographic materials consist of slides of plans, sections and elevations.

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The project series documents the 1980 design entry for Block 11-12 (Kottbusser Damm). While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 3/80. The office assigned the date 1980 for this project. This project was submitted to the International Architectural Exhibition Berlin competition (International Bauaustellung, IBA, circa 1979-1987), an urban renewal strategy for West Berlin, Germany. Siza had previously submitted three other projects to this competition: the Görtlitzer Bad swimming pool, Block 70 and 89 (Fränkelufer residential complex), and Block 121 (Bonjour Tristesse), which was his first built international project. He would later submit design proposals for two other projects: Monument to Gestapo victims Prinz-Albrecht-Palais and the Kulturforum. The design proposal for Block 11-12 was for a residential building on Kottbusserstrasse in Kreuzberg. Documenting the design proposal are drawings, photographs, negatives, slides, and textual documentation. Among the drawings are sketches, studies, elevations, floor plans, and site plans. Photographs and negatives depict the project site and surrounding area; additionally there are slides of drawings and the model. Also included is a work contract from the IBA signed by Siza and IBA official Hardt-Waltherr Hämer, as well as several notes and calculations. Note that textual documentation in this project series includes materials on Block 70 and 89, see AP178.S1.1980.PR03.008. Sketches in this project series may also include sketches related to other Berlin projects, such as Block 70 and 89.

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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Santa Maria church and parish centre in Marco de Canavezes, the Chapel of the Casa Manuel Silva in Quinta de Santo Ovidio, Lousada, as well as for Bonjour Tristesse in Berlin, Germany. It also contains sketches of a man on a horse, notes from a meeting with the Gabinete do Chiado (14/05/1999) and notes from a speech at the Universidade Lusíada.

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This sketchbook includes sketches for the Santa Maria church and parish centre in Marco de Canavezes, the Chapel of the Casa Manuel Silva in Quinta de Santo Ovidio, Lousada, as well as for Bonjour Tristesse in Berlin, Germany. It also contains sketches of a man on a horse, notes from a meeting with the Gabinete do Chiado (14/05/1999) and notes from a speech at the Universidade Lusíada.