Álvaro Siza : Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto / Álvaro Siza ; photographic essay by Duccio Malagamba.

Main entry:

Siza, Álvaro, 1933-

Title & Author:

Álvaro Siza : Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto / Álvaro Siza ; photographic essay by Duccio Malagamba.

Publication:

Description:

77 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

Museum building series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / João Fernandes -- The relationship with the city is purely mental : conversation with Álvaro Siza -- Photographic essay / Duccio Malagamba -- Project memory -- Project data.

Summary:

Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza (born 1933) is one of the most influential architects of the past half-century. His most famous work is perhaps the Serralves Museum in his hometown of Porto, his second museum building, following the Galician Center for Contemporary Art, erected in 1997. Low built and horizontal in axis, its white stucco walls are perforated with occasional openings that yield unexpected views of a surrounding garden. As with most of Siza's buildings, the furniture and fittings were also designed by the architect, including lighting fixtures, handrails, doorknobs and all signage. Building materials include hardwood floors and painted walls in gesso with marble skirting in the exhibition halls and marble floors in the foyers. This volume, published in Poligrafa's innovative Museum Building series, reviews the Serralves Museum, a disarmingly intimate space in pronounced contradistinction to much recent museum architecture.--Book Description.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788434312838 (pbk.)
8434312832 (pbk.)

Subject:

Siza, Álvaro, 1933- Interviews.
Siza, Alvaro, 1933-
Siza, Álvaro, 1933-
Siza, Alvaro, 1933- Interviews.
Museu Serralves Designs and plans.
Museu Serralves.
Art museum architecture Portugal Porto History 20th century.
Architecture des musées d'art Portugal Porto Histoire 20e siècle.
Art museum architecture.
Buildings.
Architektur
Museumsbau
Porto (Portugal) Buildings, structures, etc. Designs and plans.
Portugal Porto.
Porto (Portugal) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Architectural drawings.
History.

Added entries:

Malagamba, Duccio.
Siza, Álvaro, 1933-
Museum building series.

Museu de Arte Conteporânea de Serralves, Porto

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275021
Call No.: BIB 209015
Status: Available

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