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The Birth of the Column
7 April 2016
The Birth of the Column7 April 2016
…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
2 November 2021
Drawing Powers 4: the drawing-object2 November 2021
…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
19 September 2016
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal19 September 2016
– 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
8 May 2018
Empathy8 May 2018
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
10 January 2024
Aqueduct of Malagueira—Complexity or Contradiction10 January 2024
…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
19 September 2016
Beyond Object-ness, a Good House19 September 2016
– 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
3 May 2021
Notes on Architectural Education and Drawing3 May 2021
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
10 April 2023
The City in Dispute (2023) – Review 10 April 2023
…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
19 September 2015
Forum Malaguiera19 September 2015
…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)
4 January 2021
Malagueira: Conflict Resolution (1983)4 January 2021
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
22 September 2017
Hugh Strange: the Archive22 September 2017
…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
13 March 2016
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–197813 March 2016
– 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
19 September 2016
High Ground19 September 2016
– 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
19 June 2023
Casa Ugalde Sketch19 June 2023
– 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
21 August 2016
Notes on the 2016 Summer School21 August 2016
…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
15 June 2023
Open call: Storytellers, observed15 June 2023
…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
19 February 2018
Notes on the Sketchbook19 February 2018
…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
23 February 2018
Machines for Living – Flamenco and Architecture in the Occupation and Vacating of Spaces23 February 2018
…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
24 November 2022
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models (2021) – Review24 November 2022
…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
30 June 2018
Opening Lines: The Sketchbooks of Ten Modern Architects30 June 2018
…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
19 February 2024
Shatwell Farm: Cars19 February 2024
…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?
28 February 2022
What’s a Bludder Sketch?28 February 2022
…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
7 March 2022
Room at the Top?: Kate Macintosh, Denise Scott Brown and the kingmaker-critic7 March 2022
…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…
Quinta da Malagueira
11 August 2023
Quinta da Malagueira11 August 2023
– 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….
DMC sketch plan