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Quinta da Malagueira

Quinta da Malagueira

Pier Vittorio Aureli

…the work of Álvaro Siza in the Essay Revisiting Siza: An archeology of the future for The Architectural Review, and later republished during the Álvaro Siza: in/disciplina exhibition at Serralves….

The Birth of the Column

The Birth of the Column

Álvaro Siza

…as a whole. Álvaro Siza (1933), Royal Academy Columns Sketchbook, 2013. Pen and ink on paper, 295 × 420 mm. DMC 2618. Álvaro Siza (1933), Royal Academy Columns Sketchbook, 2013….

Drawing Powers 4: the drawing-object

Drawing Powers 4: the drawing-object

Fernando Poeiras

…to generate them. Many of Siza’s drawings explore spatial perceptions and experiences. For example, Siza uses conic perspectives to model the users’ or inhabitants’ perception of architectural space. This drawing…

Malagueira and Évora, Portugal

Malagueira and Évora, Portugal

Cathy Hawley and Hugh Strange

Siza’s Malagueira project from a private collection in Somerset: a sketch, a master plan, a technical drawing, one of Siza’s own photographs of Évora itself. These resulted in an artefact of…

Empathy

Empathy

Andrew Clancy

Being that can be understood is language. – Hans-Georg Gadamer Álvaro Siza (1933), page from the Royal Academy Columns sketchbook, 2013. Pen and ink on paper, 295 × 210 mm….

Aqueduct of Malagueira—Complexity or Contradiction

Aqueduct of Malagueira—Complexity or Contradiction

Rodrigo Lino Gaspar

…on 27 and 28 April 2023. More about the symposium, and other films and written papers, can be found here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YryataPCEwQ In his sketchbooks, Álvaro Siza describes the Portuguese city of…

Beyond Object-ness, a Good House

Beyond Object-ness, a Good House

Florian Beigel and Philip Christou

…multiple public functions.  William Burgess, BEYOND OBJECT-NESS, A GOOD HOUSE, 2015. In November we visited the ancient city of Évora in Portugal where Alvaro Siza has been working since 1977…

Notes on Architectural Education and Drawing

Notes on Architectural Education and Drawing

Rafael Sousa Santos

Álvaro Siza (1933), Caderno 34, page 10, 1979. Pen on paper, 300 × 210 mm. DMC 2531.1. The speed of transformation that characterises our contemporality is largely motivated by the…

The City in Dispute (2023) – Review 

The City in Dispute (2023) – Review 

Aureli Mora

…through plans, notes and sketches of the SAAL do São Victor in Porto, led by Álvaro Siza. ‘The City in Dispute: Collective experiments around social housing in southern Europe (1945…

Forum Malaguiera

Forum Malaguiera

…Manuel Montenegro Housed in the centre of the city first conceived on the pages of the artefacts shown, this exhibition presented Siza’s most enduring work as it once was on…

Malagueira: Conflict Resolution (1983)

Malagueira: Conflict Resolution (1983)

Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza (1933), the patrons of Café Arcadia, Évora, detail of a page from caderno 1 , 1977. Biro on paper, 297 × 210 mm. DMC 2503.3. From my experience…

Hugh Strange: the Archive

Hugh Strange: the Archive

…ready to be realised. Full-scale mock ups and imaginary stage sets were created, intriguing Alvaro Siza. In 2014, Alvaro Siza visited Shatwell farmyard, and his response to the Archive and Office…

This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978

This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978

Markus Lähteenmäki, Manuel Montenegro and Nicholas Olsberg

…Corbusier, John Hejduk, Stirling and Gowan, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Webb, Walter Pichler and Hans Hollein, Constant, Ugo La Pietra, Superstudio, Álvaro Siza, Louis Kahn and Aldo Rossi. Le Corbusier (1887–1965),…

High Ground

High Ground

Colette Sheddick and Pierre d'Avoine

…experience and survey Álvaro Siza’s Malagueira quarter, in particular the relationship between housing and infrastructure designed by Siza to provide an urban ordering to the new development. We also visited…

Casa Ugalde Sketch

Casa Ugalde Sketch

Laura Bonell and Daniel Lopez-Doriga

…recalled the most common sense of vernacular architecture, would later be used by architects such as Álvaro Siza and Alberto Ponis. In the late 1950’s, Siza would visit the rocky coast…

Notes on the 2016 Summer School

Notes on the 2016 Summer School

Helen Mallinson

…reviewers caught the moment, partly because the students seemed unafraid of their failures and more interested in what they might find out. Álvaro Siza (1933), Shatwell Farm Columns Sketchbook, 2013….

Open call: Storytellers, observed

Open call: Storytellers, observed

…Composition of Bodies, the Härlanda Church Postcard From Nowhere (Counterswimming) Karl Friedrich Schinkel Signature Alvaro Siza Fast and Slow Lines Roland Simounet De La Verité En Architecture Álvaro Siza (1933),…

Notes on the Sketchbook

Notes on the Sketchbook

Mark Dorrian

…objects which may be inserted into them, pressed between their pages or pasted onto their sheets. Álvaro Siza (1933), Caderno 5 – Évora, spiral bound Caderno Escolar, 1977. Pen and…

Machines for Living – Flamenco and Architecture in the Occupation and Vacating of Spaces

Machines for Living – Flamenco and Architecture in the Occupation and Vacating of Spaces

…of dwelling in the world’. Álvaro Siza (1933), Sketch, Evora, Malgueira. DMC 2512.6. Siza’s sketchbooks illustrate the concern for humanity in his design, lonely figures occupy those rare pages without any buildings. Rodrigo Lino…

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review

Desley Luscombe

…his foibles, and further, of a museum’s interest in preservation of all that complexity with the support of devoted individuals. Álvaro Siza (1933), columns for the Annenberg Courtyard at the…

Opening Lines: The Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects

Opening Lines: The Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects

…Le Corbusier, Alberto Ponis, Adolfo Natalini/Superstudio, Álvaro Siza, Tony Fretton, Marie-José Van Hee, Peter Märkli, Níall McLaughlin and Riet Eeckhout. The sketchbook practices range from impromptu sketches in a pocket-sized…

Shatwell Farm: Cars

Shatwell Farm: Cars

Emily Priest

…2021; 13. Columns by Álvaro Siza from 2017. Drawn by the author. Cars Shatwell Farm is accessed from Shatwell Lane which slips off from a busy A-road leading to Bruton….

What’s a Bludder Sketch?

What’s a Bludder Sketch?

Declan Quirke

…and is an imagined view of his office with the members of his studio drawing a masterplan for inner-city Södermalm in Stockholm. Like those famous sketches by Álvaro Siza, the…

Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the kingmaker-critic

Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the kingmaker-critic

Emily Dan

…language that translates not only a preference of style but also an ethos. Although I had dabbled in Siza and Aalto during my architectural studies, in my third year I…