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The referential book by Álvaro Siza on his own work, in its first English edition. Describing some of his projects, his expectations and struggles, references and decisions, this book is a fundamental contribution to the understanding of Álvaro Siza’s architectural thinking. The text is accompanied by an extensive set of drawings from his notebooks, an obstinate presence in Siza’s particular way of working, some of which never published before. A personal and fundamental testimony of one of the most celebrated living architects, covering the full range of design – from architecture to city planning, furniture and objects – in a must-read book for all interested in Art and Architecture. “potent not only for understanding Siza’s practice over many decades, but for undertaking architectural design or architectural criticism and history today.” — Barry Bergdoll
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Alvaro Siza gilt als einer der wichtigsten portugiesischen Architekten des 20.Jahrhunderts. 1992 erhielt er für sein Lebenswerk den Pritzker-Preis. Die Ausstellung in dem von Alvaro Siza gemeinsam mit Rudolf Finsterwalder errichteten Architekturmuseum auf der Museumsinsel Hombroich zeigt die Denk- und Arbeitsweise Sizas in bisher wenig bekannte Skizzen, Modellen und Fotografien. Der begleitende Katalog ist einfach, aber bibliophil gestaltet und offeriert Kennern neue Einblicke in Sizas Werk.
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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 of models, working drawings and pictures of the completed buildings.
The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in art as well as the ways in which the varied mobilities of a globalized world have radically reshaped art's conditions of production, reception, and display. In a selection of essays, fourteen distinguished scholars explore the universality of conditions of global migration and interdependence, inviting a rethinking of existing perspectives in postcolonial, transnational, and diaspora studies, and laying the foundation for empirical and theoretical directions beyond the terms of these traditional frameworks.
"This book documents a unique experience of a journey by Alvaro Siza Vieira, Vincent Mentzel and Kenneth Frampton to the early work of Siza in Porto. The book includes a conversation between Kenneth Frampton and Alvaro Siza and photos by Vincent Mentzel."--Site web de l'éditeur.
The essential survey on Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alvaro Siza's restless creativity, in 30 projects over the past 60 years Once, on the inner flap of one of his sketchbooks, Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect and educator Alvaro Siza (born 1933) described himself and his work with self-deprecating disavowal. Rather than identifying his discipline as architecture, he identified it as "as little as possible." This confessional note is the point of departure for Alvaro Siza: (In)Discipline, a retrospective survey that highlights the currents of disquiet and insubordination within the renowned architect's creative method and production, surveying Siza's design process through a s...
An erotic romance novel and the first instalment of ten in the My Other Lover sequel that traces and unlocks the deep, dark, mysterious and mind-blowing relationship between a tenacious lawyer Siza Nkabinde and a powerful businessman Menzi Gama. It is a captivating sequel which will keep you riveted to your book at all times. Based on the story-line of various relationships and true-life events, it delves into the lives of people, the choices they make, and the repercussions of those choices.
Reviewing the use of natural light by architects in the era of electricity, this book aims to show that natural light not only remains a potential source of order in architecture, but that natural lighting strategies impose a usefully creative discipline on design. Considering an approach to environmental context that sees light as a critical aspect of place, this book explores current attitudes to natural light by offering a series of in-depth studies of recent projects and the particular lighting issues they have addressed. It gives a more nuanced appraisal of these lighting strategies by setting them within their broader topographic, climatic and cultural contexts.