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 …
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 …