Alvaro Siza

by Álvaro Siza and Marc Dubois

Acclaimed internationally for his many decades of distinguished work, Portuguese architect, Alvaro Siza, provides comments about each of the seven projects featured in this volume. The designs for structures in various parts of Portugal are: a water tower, a single-family house, a museum, university offices, an urban-renewal project, and - in The Hague - a public housing complex. Addressing students and professionals alike, the book includes photographs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823001717
• ISBN13: 9780823001712
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.1" x 10.6"

Customer Reviews

A good introduction

...first of all, it’s quite convenient to have some geographic knowledge when your writing something; when the previous reviewer wrote that Siza reconstructed a burned out section of an Italian town, he should know that this town is Lisbon and Lisbon is not in Italy but is the capital of Portugal! I my opinion the introductory essay is very good, it presents the ideas of one of the great architects of the moment, it’s true that the book lacks some references to other important projects of Siza, but you can’t have it all…Siza has proven to be amongst the most coherent and complete of all architectural works this century. This coherence is not based on stylistic repetition: it lies in the progressive evolution of the act of designing and, as such, Siza’s work is immediately recognisable wherever it be found. This is a good introduction to his work!