Siza, Alvaro

Alvaro Siza: Private Houses

This richly illustrated book examines the houses designed by Alvaro Siza, one of the masters of contemporary architecture. The 28 villas represent an important aspect of Siza's career, where his distinctive ideas on home design translate into a wider conversation on living today and modern architecture.

Each construction is narrated by Alvaro Siza through his short poetic writings, a technical description, and a series of sketches. Also included are accounts written by Siza's clients, which bear witness to the complex dialogue behind the design of each house. The volume also features two visual essays based on a selection of drawings by Siza and impeccable photographs of his work.

Alvaro Siza is one of today's greatest living architects and the father of the new architectural minimalism. This book will be a must for the bookshelf of architects and students.

Alvaro Siza: Bouca (O'Neil Ford Monograph)

From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bouca Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he realized in association with architect Antonio Madureira. During those years, Siza completed numerous important commissions, including the architecture faculty building at the University of Porto in 1985 and the Fundacao Serralves museum of contemporary art in that same city in 1999. In 1988 he restored the Chiado district of Lisbon, Portugal, after a devastating fire; and his Portuguese Pavilion for Lisbon's EXPO 98 was internationally recognized. While Siza was busy with all of these buildings and plans, the first phase of the Bouca project was falling ever deeper into disrepair, hampered by municipal neglect. It has since been brought up to Siza's standards, and this publication appraises the project, now happily completed. Siza's sketches, many of which are published here for the first time, reveal the tenacity of his search for the right solution.

El Croquis 68/69 + 95 Alvaro Siza

Volume 68/69: Volume 95: Siza's recent works and future projects, such as the Aveiro University Library, the Portuguese pavilion for EXPO '98, and the extension to the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum are gathered in this new issue. The projects are preceded by an interview with the architect and an introduction by William J.R. Curtis entitled Notes on Invention' which looks back at Siza's extensive oeuvre stretching over four decades.

Alvaro Siza (Archipocket)

Alvaro Siza (1933) studied at the School of Architecture of the University of Oporto. Between 1955 and 1958 he worked in the studio of Fernando Tavora. he embarked on his professional career with the Boa Nova Restaurant (Leca da Palmeira, 1963). In this initial phase, his works combined modern typology with the vernacular tradition. Nonetheless, he constantly returns to clear volumes, like the great white parallellepiped of Avelino Duarte House (Ovar, 1985), which brings together all his earlier experience of housing typologies, including his major intervention in this area Quinta da Malagueira (Evora, 1977). Since the eighties, he has been commissioned to carry out a wide variety of porjects, ranging from the Santiago de Compostela Museum of Contemporary Art (1993) to the School of Education in Setubal (1992).

Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto De Moura: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005

Five years ago the Serpentine Gallery in London's Hyde Park invited the world's leading architects to design a pavilion, even a folly, that represented the ethos of their work, and to construct it in the gallery's garden. To date Toyo Ito, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid and Oscar Niemeyer have taken them up on the offer. This year the celebrated Portuguese architect 8lvaro 190456349X

Alvaro Siza: On Display

Exhibition catalogue bringing together an impressive selection of projects by Alvaro Siza for museums and exhibition spaces. In total eighteen projects are presented, of which eight have been completed or are still undergoing construction, through sketches, project drawings, working models, computer models, photographs and video stills.

Alvaro Siza

Alvaro Siza (Studio Paperback)

Studio Paperback monographs on the outstanding architects of the 20th century-concise and informative overviews of their complete works written and edited by noted authors. Each volume contains biographical details and a work chronology.

Ãlvaro Siza

The buildings of this master architect are, as Ryue Nishizawa observes in his short essay, infused with contemporary atmosphere, have a good continuity with their regional environment and climate, and have a brightness and clarity akin to a sculpture of light. This classic Japanese production examines14 works and projects, including the Iberê Camargo Museum, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, and the SAAL Social Housing project, which exemplify the architects approach. Including an interview with Siza, the book is extensively documented with photographs, drawings and plans.

Alvaro Siza (Architecture & Design Series)