Álvaro Siza   United States   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

Álvaro Siza   Croatia   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.

Álvaro Siza   Mexico   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

Álvaro Siza Carlos Castanheira   Taiwan   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.

Álvaro Siza Carlos Castanheira   China   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.

Álvaro Siza Carlos Castanheira   South Korea   Nestled in the dense woodlands of Gyeongsang Province, this refined complex of sculpture-like constructions explores the close relationship between architecture and landscape.

Álvaro Siza   France   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

Álvaro Siza   Spain   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

Álvaro Siza   China   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

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   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

Álvaro Siza   South Korea   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

Álvaro Siza   South Korea   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

Álvaro Siza   Switzerland   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

Álvaro Siza   Spain   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

Álvaro Siza   South Korea   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

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   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

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   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 –

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   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

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   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

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   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

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   Located in the north of Portugal, in the county of Chaves, the Hotel Vidago Palace was built in 1908. The renovation had to respect the character and spatial composition of the original building, and give the premises the quality it used to have, eli

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   In northern Portugal, in the Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro region, the Pedras Salgadas Spa opened its doors in 1879 to exploit the healing properties of the fountains in the area. The refurbishment of the main building, consisting of a central volume a

Álvaro Siza   Spain   Taking inspiration from the precipitous surrounding landscape, on a hillside of the island of Mallorca, the summer house is split up into a composition of volumes that unfurls as one descends towards the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The house is r

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

Eduardo Prieto   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Álvaro Siza   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

E35   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

The New York Times   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

Domus   Jessica Mairs   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

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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. 

Jean-Louis Cohen   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.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   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

F. Javier López Rivera   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

Edgar González   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

Ana Esteban Maluenda   Fernando Távora would tell his students that drawing was as natural as breathing. But what was truly natural was the way he taught and his ability to inoculate in his students the ‘virus’ of good architecture. His disciples have tried to explain what

Eduardo Prieto   David chipperfield lives in the present without ceasing to look at the past. The literary critic Harold Bloom, referring to writers’ clash with predecessors, spoke of the ‘anxiety of influences’. But Chipperfield is an architect who can bring out the

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