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”L‘utopia del tempo libero”

The plan to reduce working hours and distribute employment amongst more individuals, with a view to guaranteeing a freer, happier existence, is one of the main aims of socioeconomic research, which endeavours, also experimentally,...

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...

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...

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 inexorably, they keep changing because they are the stage of human life and activities and as...

Dilemmi sull‘evoluzione della città

Dilemmas in the evolution of the city Without wanting to give a presentation that is in any way didactic or triumphalist, I would like to share with you a dilemma around the evolution of the...
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