
"A pavilion is usually an isolated building, but with this site we felt we should maintain a relationship with the gallery and the trees, and these things were the start of the idea," explains Siza. "In front of the house there are two hedges forming half an ellipse. That gave us the suggestion to make a curved surface to complete the ellipse.
The Armanda Passos House Álvaro Siza The Interiorized House Amidst horizontal and vertical planes conditioned by the contours of the terrain, memories of Zen gardens and fire signs, the Armanda Passos house has gently risen – the most recent project by Álvaro Siza in Porto. Designed to be lived in at all hours of the day, when light [...]
The office of Alvaro Siza is located in a five-story building overlooking the Douro River in Porto, between the historical center and the Atlantic ocean.
serralves3Rua D.João de Castro 210 Porto Portugal Alvaro Siza 1997 The new Museum of Contemporary Art is in the Quinta de Serralves, a property comprising a large house surrounded by gardens, woods and meadows, commissioned in the 1930s to serve as a private residence and later used as an exhibition space.
Casa Vieira de Castro perches halfway up at the southwestern end of a hill that overlooks the town of Vila Nova de Famalicao in Portugal.
Posted on 02 September 2010
Alvaro Siza Vieira Awards, Prizes and Recognitions. Continue Reading
Posted on 25 August 2010
I have always had the impression that Alvaro Siza's architecture sprang from archaeological foundations known to him alone—signs invisible to anyone who has not studied the site in detail through drawings with steady, focused concentration. Continue Reading
Posted on 21 August 2010
It's unlikely that the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza will ever enjoy the fame of, say, a Rem Koolhaas or a Frank Gehry... Continue Reading
Posted on 18 August 2010
In primary school, we learned to draw in a very special way. I remember that all the students, at six years of age or so, were taught to draw such things as a closed box, then an open box. Continue Reading
Posted on 17 August 2010
The Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza Vieira was awarded the International Prize for Plastic Arts Foundation 2010 Gabarrón Cristobal, who wanted to distinguish 'the teacher, the international relevance and poetic inspiration "of his work. Continue Reading
Posted on 16 August 2010
"Every design," says Siza, "is a rigorous attempt at capturing a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. Continue Reading
Posted on 15 August 2010
The architecture of Alvaro Siza is a joy to the senses and uplifts the spirit. Each line and curve is placed with skill and sureness. Continue Reading
Posted on 11 August 2010
It was, as the architect is fond of saying, "a chair that looked like a chair". It was in fact a simple skeleton of dressed wood from which chairs have been made since time immemorial. Continue Reading
Posted on 10 August 2010
The work of Álvaro Siza Vieira is a paradigmatic example of a reciprocal relationship between the place and the global, probably the crucial subject for the disciplines related with the production of the space since the late sixties. Continue Reading
Posted on 07 August 2010
Álvaro Siza Vieira is the greatest living Portuguese architect -perhaps the finest the country has ever produced- whose works over the years have proven to be amongst the most coherent and complete of all architectural works this century. Continue Reading
Posted on 04 August 2010
I would like to start my discussion of the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza's work by first considering some texts frequently cited in discussions of his projects: one by Siza himself, one by his mentor Fernando Tavora Continue Reading