(Matosinhos, 1933)
Although Portugal is mainly a maritime country, its inland is traversed by mighty mountains, largely unknown of but whose beauty will not be unfamiliar to those who have read authors like Eça de Queirós or Miguel Torga. In one of those ranges, on a m
This pavilion is part of an overall redevelopment of the Taifong Golf Course in Changhua County, Taiwan, which includes several projects by Álvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira. Close to Casa Siza, the first construction completed within the operation,
In establishing its foundation, Porto’s most famous bookshop makes one of the country’s earliest constructions coexist with a sculptural pavilion that echoes its volumes on a contemporary note. The premises were reconstructed in the 20th century unde
The Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has completed a residential high-rise at 611 West 56th Street in New York City, his first work in the United States. With a limestone cladding striking a contrast with its neighbors, the slender, 137-meter tower c
The chapel, built in concrete and lined with local limestone, is a slender volume of clear lines tucked into the sloping terrain of the hill. The worship space is accessed from the side through a terraced courtyard facing the views.
Along Mexico’s Oaxaca coast, in Puerto Escondido, is the main center of Casa Wabi Foundation, designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. An initiative of the artist Bosco Sodi, Casa Wabi is an initiative based on the wabi-sabi concept, a worldvie
Located on a mountainside overlooking the East China Sea, this mausoleum forms part of Chin Pao San, a private cemetery that belongs to the Jinshan District of New Taipei City.
Intended as home for a recently acquired collection of 7,000 original pieces from the Bauhaus, this new museum completes the campus of the Chinese Academy of Art.
Nestled in the dense woodlands of Gyeongsang Province, this refined complex of sculpture-like constructions explores the close relationship between architecture and landscape.
Located in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Rennes, in northwestern France, the volumes of the new parish church strike up a dialogue with the housing blocks that surround them, while adapting to the existing codes. Organize
Located approximately 40 kilometers from Barcelona, the municipality of Llinars del Vallès rests on gently sloping land stretching between the Montseny massif and the coastal range. On a site in the northeast end of the town, the new theater-auditori
Like a coiled up, sleeping dragon, the new headquarters of the chemical industrial group Shihlien rise in the center of an artificial lake in the city of Huaiyin, in the Chinese province of Jiangsu. The idea of placing the building over the lake was
In August 1988 a fire destroyed eighteen buildings in the historic Chiado quarter, and since then the area’s recovery has been carried out in different phases. Aside from the reconstruction of the demolished volumes, the project takes the opportunity
The research and development department of the South Korean cosmetics company Amore Pacific goes up on a large site in the city of Yongin-si, forty kilometers from Seoul. The project extends and improves the existing business campus facilities with a
Like a cat that stretches and yawns, the Mimesis Museum unfurls introspectively on a nondescript site in Paju Book City, located thirty kilometers from Seoul. This urban complex was founded in 1989 with the purpose of promoting the publishing industr
The waters of the Rhine as it flows through Basel reflect the istrope grid of the Virchow 6 Building, on the east end of the new Novartis Campus. The building joins the long list of projects – by architects like Ando, Chipperfield, Gehry, SANAA, Mone
The main hall of the University of the Basque Country is located in the old port area of Bilbao’s estuary, transformed today with prominent buildings like the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry, the Deusto University Library by Rafael Moneo, and the Ib
Located in a dramatic landscape, even more impressive during the Monsoon, the pavilion is part of a project to bring art closer to citizens through interventions in the natural environment in the South Korean city of Anyang, thirty kilometers from Se
The four semi-detached houses, wrapped in white surfaces with straight lines, are interspersed with the single family houses flanking Avenida da Boavista on its path to the sea. Symmetrically distributed, each one of the houses closes up in the trans
The Fire Station for volunteer firefighters in the municipality of Santo Tirso, thirty kilometers from Porto, includes a main building, an observation tower, and a freestanding volume tucked into the slope of the plot. On the outside, two materials –
In a floodable area, on the banks of the Tâmega River, the foundation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the work of the painter Nadir Afonso goes up on a series of concrete slabs. Although the terrain is not the best for construction, it
Clad in an even brick skin, the new sports complex in Gondomar is basically made up of two elements: a large elliptical hall and an annex service building. Between them, a sculptural canopy covers a shaded space and marks the main access to the pavil
Sitting atop of a hill amid vineyards and cork trees, a white prism brings out the wavy landscape of Portugal’s Alentejo region. To preserve existing plantations, upon deciding the exact location of the winery it was deemed advisable to prolong a pat
From hand to eye, from eye to hand, and either way to architecture. This is the route proposed by Duccio Malagamba in a highly personal but also celebratory book that passes not only through hands and eyes, but also through two time periods: before a
To think of monasteries and Portugal is to think of the novel Memorial do Convento (published in English as Baltasar and Blimunda), where in Baroque prose José Saramago intertwined the pursuits of a group of heterodox characters with the construction
The Portuguese master Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, 1933) has designed a watch for the firm Lebond Watches, which regularly collaborates with renowned architects. With special attention on details, the Lebond Siza watch draws inspiration from the square s
It is hard to think of a contemporary architect who has stirred up so much consensus among colleagues and within the culture world, and even in that world inhabited by the fauna – exotic to many – of the ‘general public.’ The consensus around Siza an
Despite the inevitable brevity of her career, Maria Antónia Leite Siza (Porto, 1940-1973) produced more than 3.000 drawings and paintings. Crippled women, disfigured bodies and, in sum, victims of misery and circumstance, filled her work in an exerci
Arquitectura Viva and its director, Luis Fernández-Galiano, understand and regret the discomfort caused by the series Conversations. Filmed between 2013 and 2018, this documentary series of Fundación Arquia, now being streamed on Netflix, was left un
I was born in Matosinhos, in 1933, into a large family. We were five siblings, common at the time, and twelve people living at home, starting with my grandmother, who had come from Brazil as a widow with six children. We ate all together and converse
Memory speaks in these ten interviews with masters. I borrow from Vladimir Nabokov’s autobiography the title for the presentation of these conversations, transcribed as monologues to place the focus on the protagonists, whose voices I hope to have re
Álvaro Siza Undisputed master of contemporary architecture, Álvaro Siza has already received all the most important awards – the Pritzker among them, in the year 1992 –, but he was probably especially happy to receive from his Iberian colleagues th
A true master of contemporary architecture, the Portuguese Álvaro Siza already has all the important trophies in his possession, but it has probably made him very happy to be feted with none other than Spain’s National Prize for Architecture, given b
VAVA eyewear is a passionate project of deeply conceptual design. The bold essential shapes of VAVA sunglasses and optical glasses represent a contemporary human view on an urban post-industrial environment. The pulsing beats of techno-sound material
Álvaro Siza designs his first high-rise in the United States on the far west side of Manhattan...
For years the field of action of Álvaro Siza (Matosinhos, 1933) has extended beyond the boundaries of his native Portugal, transferring the master’s ideas to a variety of contexts in Europe, America, and recently also Asia. It is in this latest stage
The Arquia/maestros documentary collection – which since 2014 has been building testimony of the life and work of some of the great architects of our times through interviews conducted by Luis Fernández-Galiano, director of the endeavor – now explore
Álvaro Siza has designed a €7.5 coin in honour of fellow Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, which will be put into circulation in Portugal on 12 December 2018. The silver alloy coin features an abstract outline of the crown of a tree
As much an artist as an architect, the Porto master has built timeless works with his unique language, turning his creative activity into a ‘poetic profession’.
The interviews that make up the fourth set of the Arquia/maestros collection present the gifures of Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura y Renzo Piano.
Over the past twenty years, the work of Álvaro Siza has taken on a new dimension, for both its geographic and thematic reach. His field of action had long ago surpassed Portugal’s frontiers – take for instance his participation at the Venice Biennale
In conversation with Vicente Verdú, the master Álvaro Siza contemplates themes like drawing, context, influences, and the teaching of architecture.
Álvaro Siza thinks with the pen and the eye. His hand is not a hand that feels; it is a hand that knows. When the line becomes tangled, it is not that the hand is blindly groping for its path, but that it awards itself the freedom of madness and the
A ceremony was held in Mies van der Rohe’s mythical building for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to announce the winners of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), an important award that the IIT will from now on be givi
It might first seem like another illustrated book or photo book. Suffice it to recall the visual panoramas published by Alberto Sartoris or the national examples of fotoscops, a work of the Prats-Gomis-Sert (1967–72). The publication is produced wit
Continuing the saga of the most prolific architects of recent times, the editor of the Architecture Now! series, Philip Jodidio, has now published a monograph on Zaha Hadid (Baghdad, 1950) that updates one of 2009 and is to date the most ambitious an
Duccio Malagamba Before / After
Carlos Campos Morais Madrid 2022 - 240 Pages
Kenneth Frampton
Barcelona 2018
Gustavo Gili - 94 Pages
António Choupina Ideas encontradas
Luis Fernández-Galiano
Madrid 2018
Fundación Arquia - 108 Pages
Carlos Seoane
Barcelona 2015
Fundación Arquia - 418 Pages
Carlos Campos Morais
Madrid 2014
Abada Editores - 434 Pages
Philip Jodidio Complete Works 1952-2013
Eduardo Souto de Moura
La Coruña 2010
Labirinto de Paixons - 190 Pages
Alessandra Cianchetta Elisabetta Molteni Casas 1954-2004
Lisboa 2003
Figueirinhas - 220 Pages
Carlos Castanheira
Madrid 2002
Talis - 202 Pages
Cecil Balmond
Múnich 2002
Prestel Publishers - 393 Pages
Kenneth Frampton
Milán 1999
Mondadori Electa - 620 Pages
Brigitte Fleck
Madrid 1999
Akal - 152 Pages
Philip Jodidio
Colonia 1999
Taschen - 175 Pages