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Cette monographie consiste en une compilation des projets architecturaux les plus récents du parcours d'Alvaro Siza. Tout au long de sa vaste trajectoire créative, Alvaro Siza a reçu les plus prestigieux prix d'architecture, comme par exemple le Mies van der Rohe d'Architecture Contemporaine de l'Union européenne (1988), le Pritzker (1992), le National de l'Architecture(...)
Alvaro Siza: Note sur une architecture sensible
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Cette monographie consiste en une compilation des projets architecturaux les plus récents du parcours d'Alvaro Siza. Tout au long de sa vaste trajectoire créative, Alvaro Siza a reçu les plus prestigieux prix d'architecture, comme par exemple le Mies van der Rohe d'Architecture Contemporaine de l'Union européenne (1988), le Pritzker (1992), le National de l'Architecture du Portugal (1993), la médaille d'or de la Fondation Alvar Aalto (1998) et, enfin, la Médaille d'Or Royale du Royal Institute of British Architects (février 2009). Ses ouvrages ont été regroupés dans diverses typologies, telles que les équipements culturels, les centres de loisirs, les bâtiments de bureaux, les bâtiments publics, les habitations et les centres commerciaux. A travers une vaste sélection d'images, de graphiques et de documentation, le lecteur pourra entreprendre un véritable voyage au coeur de l'oeuvre artistique de cet architecte portugais.
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Un véritable petit carnet de croquis de Alvaro Siza mettant en valeur son amour pour le dessin et pour l’écriture. Un regard nouveau et intime sur l’architecte portugais. Textes réunis et traduits par Dominique Machabert.
Des mots de rien du tout
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Un véritable petit carnet de croquis de Alvaro Siza mettant en valeur son amour pour le dessin et pour l’écriture. Un regard nouveau et intime sur l’architecte portugais. Textes réunis et traduits par Dominique Machabert.
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Siza's designs for museums and exhibition spaces are represented here through drawings, plans, sections, and photographs. This book was produced in conjuction with an exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, which Siza designed.
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January 1900, Porto
Alvaro Siza : expor / on display
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Siza's designs for museums and exhibition spaces are represented here through drawings, plans, sections, and photographs. This book was produced in conjuction with an exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, which Siza designed.
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The new exhibition on the works of Siza, which will open June 17 on Hombroich, primarily presents little-known material on some of his more famous projects: sketches and models, accompanied by large-format photographs, serve to make Siza 's working methods palpable and real. The catalogue, which focuses on 10 selected projects, was conceived as a reserved and(...)
Àlvaro Siza: from line to space
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The new exhibition on the works of Siza, which will open June 17 on Hombroich, primarily presents little-known material on some of his more famous projects: sketches and models, accompanied by large-format photographs, serve to make Siza 's working methods palpable and real. The catalogue, which focuses on 10 selected projects, was conceived as a reserved and straightforward, yet nonetheless bibliophile-friendly book offering those familiar with Siza new insights into how he works.
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Álvaro’s Siza’s public housing projects, designed at great scale and complexity against the backdrop of the Portuguese Revolution, obliged him to articulate a position that was nuanced and ideologically forceful. Such projects developed over long periods, in response to shifts in policy, funding and political climate. For an architect whose work develops always through(...)
Seven early sketchbooks: Álvaro Siza Vieira
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Álvaro’s Siza’s public housing projects, designed at great scale and complexity against the backdrop of the Portuguese Revolution, obliged him to articulate a position that was nuanced and ideologically forceful. Such projects developed over long periods, in response to shifts in policy, funding and political climate. For an architect whose work develops always through the iterative sketch, this challenging process, combined with the scale and cultural ambition of the projects themselves, produced the densest imaginable mass of drawings.
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As Ellis Woodman points out in his Introduction to this extensively illustrated discussion of the housing projects of Álvaro Siza and James Gowan, this publication frames an encounter between the work of two men who might be considered an unlikely pairing. However, both men were engaged in critical response to the tenets of the Athens Charter that they sought to resolve(...)
Housing and the city : Alvaro Siza and James Gowan
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As Ellis Woodman points out in his Introduction to this extensively illustrated discussion of the housing projects of Álvaro Siza and James Gowan, this publication frames an encounter between the work of two men who might be considered an unlikely pairing. However, both men were engaged in critical response to the tenets of the Athens Charter that they sought to resolve in their low-cost housing experiments of the 1960s and 70s. The implications of the different social, political and economic contexts in which they enacted this difficult task makes the juxtaposition of their work a fascinating and fruitful process of discovery.
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza (born 1933) is one of the most influential architects of the past half-century. His most famous work is perhaps the Serralves Museum in his hometown of Porto, his second museum building, following the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, erected in 1997. Low built and horizontal in axis, its white stucco walls are perforated with(...)
Àlvaro Siza: Museu De Arte Contemporânea de Serralves Porto
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Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza (born 1933) is one of the most influential architects of the past half-century. His most famous work is perhaps the Serralves Museum in his hometown of Porto, his second museum building, following the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, erected in 1997. Low built and horizontal in axis, its white stucco walls are perforated with occasional openings that yield unexpected views of a surrounding garden. As with most of Siza's buildings, the furniture and fittings were also designed by the architect, including lighting fixtures, handrails, doorknobs and all signage. Building materials include hardwood floors and painted walls in gesso with marble skirting in the exhibition halls and marble floors in the foyers. This volume, published in Poligrafa's innovative Museum Building series, reviews the Serralves Museum, a disarmingly intimate space in pronounced contradistinction to much recent museum architecture.
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This project began with the opportunity to photograph Monte da Lapa, one of Álvaro Siza’s last projects in Porto. Its dual simplicity and complexity opened the creative doors to a universe where light, matter, and space dialogue with almost poetic precision. Using black and white was not only an aesthetic choice for photographer Pedro Cardigo but also a tribute to the(...)
January 2026
Alvaro Siza throgh the lens of Pedro Cardigo
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This project began with the opportunity to photograph Monte da Lapa, one of Álvaro Siza’s last projects in Porto. Its dual simplicity and complexity opened the creative doors to a universe where light, matter, and space dialogue with almost poetic precision. Using black and white was not only an aesthetic choice for photographer Pedro Cardigo but also a tribute to the timelessness of Siza’s work. It emphasises the purity of the forms, the contrast between light and shadow, and the texture of the materials. Featuring photographs of numerous works by Siza, this is both a celebration of the architect’s creative genius and an invitation to the viewer to see them through Cardigo’s eyes.
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Siza est à part. Indépendant, discret, il compte dans le monde de l'architecture parmi les plus grands et s'y est fait un nom à force de conviction profonde. Il parle à voix basse et porte sur les choses un regard pénétrant. De l'objet à la ville, son œuvre, saluée partout et largement commentée, atteint une sorte de grâce qui échappe aux théories. Et, à défaut(...)
November 2024
Alvaro Siza, celui qui n'écrivait pas
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Siza est à part. Indépendant, discret, il compte dans le monde de l'architecture parmi les plus grands et s'y est fait un nom à force de conviction profonde. Il parle à voix basse et porte sur les choses un regard pénétrant. De l'objet à la ville, son œuvre, saluée partout et largement commentée, atteint une sorte de grâce qui échappe aux théories. Et, à défaut d'explications savantes, c'est par petites touches qu'on peut esquisser les contours du personnage, témoin de son époque et lucide devant les déséquilibres du monde. On dit qu'il dessine comme un ange, qu'il n'écrit pas sinon quelques textes épars, qu'il allume des cigarettes et oublie de les fumer, inséparable de ses cahiers noirs. Et de sa pratique de l'architecture, on n'a pas trouvé mieux que de dire qu'elle est poétique, et de lui qu'il est un poète.Que pouvaient alors soixante-cinq textes de lui à part ça? Rien. Sinon tenir dans une main tant de choses à la fois, une vie d'homme, d'artiste, architecte de surcroît - une place dans le monde à quoi rien ne correspond.
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This special double issue extensively features both built and unbuilt work by Álvaro Siza. The Portuguese architect has developed a large number of projects, and the relationship between the realised and the concept is central to this examination of his career. Being equally attentive to the architect’s built and unbuilt works allows a global understanding of the(...)
A.mag 18 : Alvaro Siza built works - unbuilt works (2 vols)
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This special double issue extensively features both built and unbuilt work by Álvaro Siza. The Portuguese architect has developed a large number of projects, and the relationship between the realised and the concept is central to this examination of his career. Being equally attentive to the architect’s built and unbuilt works allows a global understanding of the plurality of situations that are found in his oeuvre to emerge. The first volume features finished works like the Nadir Afonso Museum, 611 West 56th Street in New York, and the Mimesis Museum, while the second volume of numerous unbuilt works includes sketches, drawings, and plans, as well as in-depth analysis.