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Alvaro Siza: Neighbourhood. Where Alvaro meets Aldo

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In response to the theme of the 2016 Venice Biennial, Portugal presented a site-specific pavilion occupying an urban front in the midst of physical and social regeneration on Giudecca, an archipelago just south of Venice. The pavilion exhibited four works by Pritzger Prize winner Álvaro Siza (born 1933) on the theme of social housing Campo di Marte (Venice), Schilderswijk (The Hague), Schlesisches Tor (Berlin) and Bairro da Bouça (Porto) revealing his collaborative experience with the local inhabitants and unique understanding of the European city and citizenship. These projects resulted in the creation of neighborhood spaces aimed at a more tolerant, multicultural society, a subject important to the current European political agenda. This book unveils the curatorial process and the display of these works in Venice. Included are images of Siza’s recent visits to the neighborhoods, plus a presentation of the changes triggered by immigration, ghettoization, gentrification and “touristification.”

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Siza. Chiaramonte. The measure of the west: a representation of travel

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In 1984, Giovanni Chiaramonte photographed Álvaro Siza's building in Berlin, on whose façade some young people had written Bonjour Tristesse. The image was published on the cover of the magazine Lotus International. The following year, Siza and Chiaramonte met in Évora, on the occasion of a new series by the Italian photographer featuring the buildings of the great Portuguese architect. It marked the beginning of a long friendship and a shared reflection on architecture, photography, and urban life. "The Measure of the West" presents a selection of fifty-seven drawings by Siza and forty photographs taken by Chiaramonte in cities around the world.

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Alvaro Siza : O'Neil Ford monograph 1 : Bouça Residents Association Housing, Porto 1972-77, 2005-06

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From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bouça Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he realized in association with architect António Madureira. During those years, Siza completed numerous important commissions, including the architecture faculty building at the University of Porto in 1985 and the Fundação 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 Bouça 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.

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Imagining the evident: Alvaro Siza

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The referential book by Álvaro Siza on his own work, in its first English edition. Describing some of his projects, his expectations and struggles, references and decisions, this book is a fundamental contribution to the understanding of Álvaro Siza’s architectural thinking. The text is accompanied by an extensive set of drawings from his notebooks, an obstinate presence in Siza’s particular way of working, some of which never published before. A personal and fundamental testimony of one of the most celebrated living architects, covering the full range of design – from architecture to city planning, furniture and objects – in a must-read book for all interested in Art and Architecture.

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Des mots de rien du tout

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Un véritable petit carnet de croquis de Alvaro Siza mettant en valeur son amour pour le dessin et pour l’écriture. Un regard nouveau et intime sur l’architecte portugais. Textes réunis et traduits par Dominique Machabert.

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Marrocos, 1967. Viagens / Journeys

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Álvaro Siza and Alexandre Alves Costa take us to Morocco, on a journey undertaken in 1967 by a group of seven friends in a Renault 4L and a Fiat 850, with no spare tyre. The aim of this collection is to construct a map of emotions from unique journeys undertaken by recognised personalities from the architectural culture. A tour around the various continents, but also the universe of its authors.

Titre:
Alvaro Siza : imaginer l'évidence

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Ce livre constitue un plaidoyer, par l'un des architectes majeurs de notre époque, destiné à éduquer le regard pour apprendre à observer notre environnement sans focalisation excessive sur ce qui peut apparaître "nouveau". Pour Alvaro Siza, imaginer ne consiste pas à "inventer" des éléments extraordinaires mais principalement à s'imprégner et à organiser différemment ce que le passé, les lieux ou les autres cultures nous livrent d'idées, de processus, de formes...L'architecte doit pouvoir être qualifié d'humaniste au sens où il cherche à servir avant tout les hommes pour lesquels ses bâtiments sont destinés. Il ne doit pas chercher a priori la prouesse technique ou plastique ce qui pourtant semble constituer la caractérisation d'une architecture contemporaine mondialisée. Pour Siza, l'un des fondamentaux reste bien le lieu, le site et sa prise en compte dans ses interactions avec l'"humain", au centre de toutes les contraintes d'un projet. Ces textes (illustrés de dessins originaux) témoignent de la démarche originale et respectueuse d'un très grand architecte.

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Portugal, 2014-2017. Viagens / Journeys

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This book is about Mirko Zardini's travels to Porto and Lisbon, between 2014 and 2017, during the process of the donation of part of the Álvaro Siza archive to the Canadian Centre for Architecture. The book is part of the collection Journeys, whose aim is to construct a map of emotions from unique journeys undertaken by recognised personalities from the architectural culture. A tour around the various continents, but also the universe of its authors.