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Learning From Machine Learning, on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital
11.07.2023
Learning From Machine Learning, on designer trees and architectural historiographies of the digital11.07.2023
…Siza, CCA. Gift of Alvaro Siza. © Álvaro Siza. The tool reinforced the dominance of certain architects who have already been identified as important to the history of architecture. Because…
Espelho Álvaro
15.01.2020
Espelho Álvaro15.01.2020
…of his architecture. I believe that it is possible, simple, easy and obvious to talk of Siza through this object. A mirror is an object created for man. Siza takes…
Quinta da Malagueira
11.08.2023
Quinta da Malagueira11.08.2023
…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
07.04.2016
The Birth of the Column07.04.2016
…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
02.11.2021
Drawing Powers 4: The Drawing-object02.11.2021
…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
19.09.2016
Malagueira and Évora, Portugal19.09.2016
– 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
08.05.2018
Empathy08.05.2018
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
10.01.2024
Aqueduct of Malagueira—Complexity or Contradiction10.01.2024
…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
19.09.2016
Beyond Object-ness, a Good House19.09.2016
– 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
03.05.2021
Notes on Architectural Education and Drawing03.05.2021
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
10.04.2023
The City in Dispute (2023) – Review 10.04.2023
…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
19.09.2015
Forum Malaguiera19.09.2015
…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)
04.01.2021
Malagueira: Conflict Resolution (1983)04.01.2021
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…
Soane and Modernism: Make It New
07.02.2025
Soane and Modernism: Make It New07.02.2025
…DMC 3198.1. The exhibition will also investigate two more recent case studies which share affinities with Soane’s work: Álvaro Siza’s Bouça Social Housing in Porto, Portugal, and Tony Fretton’s Lisson…
Hugh Strange: the Archive
22.09.2017
Hugh Strange: the Archive22.09.2017
…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…
High Ground
19.09.2016
High Ground19.09.2016
– 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…
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978
13.03.2016
This Was Tomorrow: Reinventing Architecture 1953–197813.03.2016
– 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),…
Machines for Living – Flamenco and Architecture in the Occupation and Vacating of Spaces
23.02.2018
Machines for Living – Flamenco and Architecture in the Occupation and Vacating of Spaces23.02.2018
…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…
Notes on the 2016 Summer School
21.08.2016
Notes on the 2016 Summer School21.08.2016
…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
15.06.2023
Open call: Storytellers, observed15.06.2023
…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),…
Casa Ugalde Sketch
19.06.2023
Casa Ugalde Sketch19.06.2023
– Laura Bonell and Daniel López-Dòriga
…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 Sketchbook
19.02.2018
Notes on the Sketchbook19.02.2018
…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…
Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters
02.04.2025
Spring Open Weekend 5 & 6 April 2024 – Drawing Clusters02.04.2025
…& Prouvé 2741.1 André Sive & Henri Prouvé, Studies for factory-built houses for the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism, Meudon, France, 1950–2. Pencil on tracing paper. Siza 2503.58 Álvaro Siza,…
Mystery as Ground
21.03.2019
Mystery as Ground21.03.2019
– Andrew Clancy
…ink on paper, 295 × 210 mm. DMC 2618.4. Álvaro Siza (1933), Patio to Bouca housing estate, 1972. Pencil and ink on paper, 503 × 752 mm. DMC 2397. Siza’s…
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