"âAlvaro Siza is considered Portugal's greatest living architect. His buildings are known for their austere beauty and imaginativce relationship to their surroundings ... Each project in the book is explained in-depth with texts by ... Carlos Castanheira, Nuno Higino, and âAlvaro Siza himself, and shown through photographs by Fernando Guerra ... complete sets of drawings and a wealth of Siza's sketches ... the buildings in this book ... include many projects in Portugal and others constructed around the globe"--

Álvaro Siza

Arts & Photography

Siza, Álvaro

Castanheira, Carlos

Architecture

Phaidon Press

In 1984, Giovanni Chiaramonte photographed Álvaro Siza's building in Berlin, on whose façade some young people had written Bonjour Tristesse. The image was published on the cover of the magazine Lotus International. The following year, Siza and Chiaramonte met in Évora, on the occasion of a new series by the Italian photographer featuring the buildings of the great Portuguese architect. It marked the beginning of a long friendship and a shared reflection on architecture, photography, and urban life. The Measure of the West presents a selection of sixty drawings by Siza and forty photographs taken by Chiaramonte in cities around the world. They make up two parallel routes that lead to the discovery of the shape of the modern city ? always hanging in the balance between proportion, in which civilization can develop, and disproportion, in which civilization can go astray. Although animated by different intentions, these sketches and photographs appear as coherent traces of the same design, guided by the same desire to see, discover, understand, and learn. The differences between the black and white strokes of the drawings and the colour of the photographs disappear. Short texts, including thoughts on architecture, photography, drawing, representation, and nature, enrich a "poem of change" taking place in an era of globalization.

The Measure of the West: A Representation of Travel

Chiaramonte, Giovanni

Photography & Video

McGill-Queen's University Press

Alvaro Siza, Architect: Drawings, Models, Photographs.

Elsa Longhauser

Jean-Louis Cohen

Santa Monica Museum of Art

This is the seventh book in the scalae architecture + architects international ebook collection. Alvaro Siza Vieira illustrates and shares a magical voyage on which his path is crossed by the deepest of feelings, the fundamentals of his principles and ways of creating, and his experiences as a citizen, architect, and sculptor. As he wanders, he talks, smokes, sings, tells of his troubles, and protests about things that lack meaning, all the while sketching the slim silhouette of a woman who expresses the quiet pleasure of someone who has just raised her glass to toast another person whose own glass is also visible in Siza's delicate drawing. It is a voyage that spans the architect's life and memory, squeezed into a form of time that is simultaneously past, present, and future. In it, the master architect from Porto shows his affection for the people who, through their silence or their words, have been or still are somewhere on his horizon. People and architecture that throb in the hands of a tireless draughtsman, architect, and sculptor who, true to his Portuguese roots, is in love with the oceans of beauty and life.

Alvaro Siza Vieira ...by himself · scalae: conversation · nuances · expression (scalae architecture + architects international e-book collection)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arranz, Félix

Arts & Literature

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Five years ago the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park invited the world's leading architects to design a pavilion, even a folly, that represented the ethos of their work, and to construct it in the gallery's garden. To date Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer have taken them up on the offer. This year the celebrated Portuguese architect 8lvaro 190456349X

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005

Balmond, Cecil

SOUTO DE MOURA, Eduardo

Trolley Books

Francesco Venezia

Ernst & Sohn

Alvaro Siza's architectural sketches commence with his very first confrontation with the city for which he intends to build; they accompany each of his projects over many years. The characteristics of his architectural style are very much in evidence in this collection of his sketches.

City Sketches / Stadtskizzen / Desenhos urbanos (English, German and Portuguese Edition)

Individual Artists

Birkhauser

Alvaro Siza (1933) studied at the School of Architecture of the University of Oporto. Between 1955 and 1958 he worked in the studio of Fernando Tavora. he embarked on his professional career with the Boa Nova Restaurant (Leca da Palmeira, 1963). In this initial phase, his works combined modern typology with the vernacular tradition. Nonetheless, he constantly returns to clear volumes, like the great white parallellepiped of Avelino Duarte House (Ovar, 1985), which brings together all his earlier experience of housing typologies, including his major intervention in this area Quinta da Malagueira (Evora, 1977). Since the eighties, he has been commissioned to carry out a wide variety of porjects, ranging from the Santiago de Compostela Museum of Contemporary Art (1993) to the School of Education in Setubal (1992).

Alvaro Siza (Archipocket) (English, French, German and Italian Edition)

CUITO, AURORA

Malagamba, Duccio

Te Neues Publishing

Alvaro Siza, 1954-1988 (Architecture & Urbanism Extra Edition Ser.)

Gustavo Gili

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