Álvaro Siza. Writings on architecture

ANGELILLO, ANTONIO

1997-01-01

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Abstract

The important and internationally renowed project career of the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza has always been studded with brief writings, interventions about his works and observations regarding different cultures met in the world: they represent an occasional and private way - both lucid and concise - for Siza to express his thoughts about the complexities and doubts which permeate present-day artistic and professional practice in architecture. This volume is the first publication which sistematically groups the most significative texts - mostly never published before - written or else specifically revised by the author, selected and organized according to the thematic sections and accompanied by exemplificative sketches: in Siza’s writings (gathered and translated by the architect Antonio Angelillo) you easily find the aesthetic values that are constantly present in the artistic production of the Portuguese architect, such as the simplicity and purity of his architectures, the equilibrium of the forms and the delicacy with which they immerse themselves within tha landscape.