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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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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),…

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…

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…