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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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),…
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…
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…
Drawing Powers 4: the drawing-object
2 November 2021
Drawing Powers 4: the drawing-object2 November 2021
– 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…
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