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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.
Architecture Monographs
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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.
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xcv, 512 pages : illustrations (black and white), plans ; 25 cm
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022., ©2022
The Routledge companion to architectural drawings and models : from translating to archiving, collecting and displaying / edited by Federica Goffi.
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022., ©2022
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This book is about Mirko Zardini's travels to Porto and Lisbon, between 2014 and 2017, during the process of the donation of part of the Álvaro Siza archive to the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The book is part of the collection Journeys, whose aim is to construct a map of emotions from unique journeys undertaken by recognised personalities from the architectural(...)
Portugal, 2014-2017. Viagens / Journeys
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This book is about Mirko Zardini's travels to Porto and Lisbon, between 2014 and 2017, during the process of the donation of part of the Álvaro Siza archive to the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The book is part of the collection Journeys, whose aim is to construct a map of emotions from unique journeys undertaken by recognised personalities from the architectural culture. A tour around the various continents, but also the universe of its authors.
Journeys
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The global renaissance in architecture has afforded Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza a wide range of opportunities to generate new and exciting architecture over recent years. These buildings and projects reflect Siza's continuing belief, in his own words, that ‘the limits of a building can be found in the way the relations between exterior and interior are controlled.'(...)
El Croquis
August 2008, Madrid
El Croquis 140 Alvaro Siza 2001-2008
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The global renaissance in architecture has afforded Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza a wide range of opportunities to generate new and exciting architecture over recent years. These buildings and projects reflect Siza's continuing belief, in his own words, that ‘the limits of a building can be found in the way the relations between exterior and interior are controlled.' Seventeen projects built over the last eight years, including Maison van Middelem-Dupont, the Multipurpose Pavilion, Gondomar, House in Majorca, Armande Passos House, Anyang Pavilion, and the Museum for the Ibere Carmago Foundation are thoroughly examined in this volume. All are accompanied by full page colour photographs, sketches, plans, elevations, models, and introduced by an extensive interview with the architect.
El Croquis
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Álvaro Siza and Alexandre Alves Costa take us to Morocco, on a journey undertaken in 1967 by a group of seven friends in a Renault 4L and a Fiat 850, with no spare tyre. The aim of this collection is to construct a map of emotions from unique journeys undertaken by recognised personalities from the architectural culture. A tour around the various continents, but also the(...)
January 2018
Marrocos, 1967. Viagens / Journeys
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Álvaro Siza and Alexandre Alves Costa take us to Morocco, on a journey undertaken in 1967 by a group of seven friends in a Renault 4L and a Fiat 850, with no spare tyre. The aim of this collection is to construct a map of emotions from unique journeys undertaken by recognised personalities from the architectural culture. A tour around the various continents, but also the universe of its authors.
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179 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 23 cm
Bern : Call Me Edouard, 2015.
Hommage à Le Corbusier / [texte, Patrick Moser].
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Bern : Call Me Edouard, 2015.