One-Family House
This is a villa by the sea, on the isle of Majorca, right in the middle of a pine forest in Palma itself. It is in fact three separate buildings plus their adjoining services. The first building is the owner’s house, the second is a guest house and th …
Adega Mayor Winery
The Adega Mayor wine cellars are roughly 180 Km east of Lisbon, near the Spanish border. The hills are covered in olive groves and vineyards. On the west side there is an artificial lake and north of this squat industrial buildings. Integrating a large …
Sporting Complex
Situated in Porto’s eastern suburbs, the Gondomar complex is formed by a main building for sports and another smaller one for cultural and pedagogical activities as well as small conferences. Siza gave this complex a role of coordination within a relat …
Ibere Camargo Museum
The museum of the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Allegre is currently considered to be Alvaro Siza’s last great work. It is particularly important for the original spatial organization chosen by the architect, which is absolutely innovative for a mu …
Hotel and Spa Facilities
This project, currently under construction, was devised by Siza for Particosa in the Spanish Pyrenees. Construction of the spa in Particosa has only recently begun thanks to the considerable financial contribution of several banks. However, financing s …
Museum of Modern Art
Among the numerous cultural centres and museums designed by Alvaro Siza, the Mimesis museum in Paju Book is one of the smaller ones. The part accessible to the public is organized on two floors: on the ground floor are spaces for temporary exhibitions …
Santa Maria del Rosario Church
The site chosen for the new church of Santa Maria del Rosario, built to celebrate the Jubilee, is situated in the Roman suburb of Pompei alla Magliana. As a response to the competition organized on this occasion by the Holy See and won by Richard Meier …
Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum
The project for the Museo di Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina in Naples chiefly involved restructuring a historical building which had already been transformed a number of times over the centuries. Alvaro Siza’s intervention firstly involved eliminating …
Campo di Marte District
The project for this council housing complex, now in its final stages of completion, was a result of a competition which took place in 1985 and was won by Alvaro Siza, to whom part of the project was entrusted. Surrounded by other buildings designed by …
François Burkhardt intervista Álvaro Siza
Studio Álvaro Siza, Porto, July 19th 2008 photo by FG+SG François Burkhardt: What is, in your opinion, the reason why your work is so successful and elicits so much interest? Alvaro Siza: In the Sixties I was practically unknown, not many people knew a …