Cais de embarque para european architects [Docking pier for European Architects] Salonica, Greece (1996)

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People:

Alvaro Siza (archive creator)
Alvaro Siza (architect)

Title:

Cais de embarque para european architects [Docking pier for European Architects] Salonica, Greece (1996)

Date:

circa 1996-2012

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

131 photographic materials
67 drawings (including 41 reprographic copies)
1 model
0.01 l.m. of textual records

Scope and content:
This project series documents the Cais de embarque para european architects in Salonica, Greece. While the records were held in the office’s archives this project was assigned the number 75/90. The office assigned the date 1996 for this project

In 1997, Thessaloniki was the host city for the event "Cultural Capital of Europe." An architectural initiative named "Provoking spatial episodes - On the coast" was created to celebrate the relationship between the sea and the city. Several architects were invited to design small piers on the coast. For Siza, the program criteria included the construction of a pier able to receive 250 people, debaring area for catamarans, house ticket dispensers, waiting room, press room and food stall.

Documenting this project are sketches, studies, presentation drawings, and project documentation. Slides document the project model.

Reference number:

AP178.S1.1996.PR03

Arrangement:
Material in this series was arranged by Álvaro Siza’s office and has been kept in this order.

Location:

Salonica Greece

Credit line:
When citing the collection as a whole, use the citation: Álvaro Siza fonds, Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. When citing specific collection material, please refer to the object’s specific credit line.

Language of material:

Portuguese
Greek
English

Related units of description:

Sketches for the Cais de embarque para european architects are also included in Siza's sketchbooks found in Series AP178.S2 of this fonds. Of note is sketchbook 424.

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