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   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 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   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   Spain   A small tribute to the quality of life in Cornellá”. That is how the project for the new sports center is defined, conceived not only for its adequacy to achieve the desired balance between housing, retail areas, green spaces and other facilities so

Álvaro Siza   Portugal   Under a monumental concrete canopy, the Portuguese Pavilion for Expo 98 in Lisbon welcomes visitors and offers them a shaded space by the water facing the Mar da Palha. The building stretches along a north-south longitudinal axis and consists of two

Álvaro Siza   Spain   The new campus of the University of Alicante goes up on the grounds of the old military aerodrome of Rabasa. Like an agora of the academic facility, a vast landscaped surface appears delimited by low-rise structures that counteract the vertical natur

Álvaro Siza   Belgium   In the horizontal and rectilinear landscape of the polders, the farms establish the only elements of reference in a predictable territory marked by the regular geometry of the roads and the sewage canals. To the west of Belgium, and searching precise

Álvaro Siza   Spain   The continuous urban transformation of the city center of Granada during the last decades has created a rich urban fabric where different styles and periods are superposed. Located in the northern end of a long urban block, the plot had three buildin

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

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

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

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

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. 

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’.

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.

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

Brigitte Fleck   Madrid  1999  
Akal   - 152 Pages 

Kenneth Frampton   Milán  1999  
Mondadori Electa   - 620 Pages 

Philip Jodidio   Colonia  1999  
Taschen   - 175 Pages