Álvaro Siza – biography
He was born in Matosinhos in 1933. He became architect, rather than sculptor, in order not to contradict his father. He began working during his school years, as he lacked the patience to merely study, assisting architect Fernando Tàvora and at the sam …
area 100 – changing cities
presentazione/introduction 18 anni in 100 numeri testo Marco Casamonti editoriale/editorial Changing Cities testo Marco Casamonti scenari di architettura/architectural scenario Porto built/voids Café do Cais/ Casa da Musica Merida classic/anti-classic …
Changing Cities
art/architecture sell/inhabit classic/anti-classic planning/opportunity memory/invention built/built on existing tissue iconic/aniconic extraordinary/everyday homogeneous/inhomogeneous built /voids Cities never cease to change. Constantly and inexorab …
Porto built/voids
The urban tissue, even if it is considered consolidated, is intrinsically inclined towards design, or in other words to a continuous transformation. This clearly applies to the empty areas created by interruptions of the urban tissue, in the recovery a …
Porto built/voids – Café do Cais
Café do Cais sits on the right margin of the Douro river in the Ribeira district of Oporto. It pretends to continue the logic of those provisional elements – Kiosks on the street side and boats anchored in the quays – that are constant in this river ne …
Porto built/voids – Casa da Musica
This part of Porto was still a city ‘’intact’’, OMA chose not to articulate the new concert hall as a segment of a small scale circular wall around the Rotunda da Boavista but to create a solitary building standing on the new, more intimate square conn …
Merida classic/anticlassic
In the Western civilization and especially in Europe the conflict between classical and anti-classical, or modernism, has more often than not resulted in the surrounding and suffocating of the former by the latter, in the form of recent modern urban ex …
Merida classic/anti-classic – National Museum of Roman Art
Founded by the Legionaries of Augustus in 24 B.C., Mérida became the most important Roman city in Spain at the end of the Empire. Today the presence of the Theater and the Arena are an impressive token of this past. Not far from these monumental relics …
Regional Government of Extremadura
The site inspired a building of great formal simplicity whose image fit naturally between the nucleus formed by the historic Alcazaba fortress and the Roman bridge, on the one hand, and the plaza located at the edn of the modern bridge built by Santiag …