One of the most consistent and yet fully surprising architects working today, Álvaro Siza, Pritzker Prize shares his List spanning from fundamental editions on Alvar Aalto or Walther Gropius, to lesser-known Italian modernism, Brazil, critical history and philosophy, a striking novel, and poetry, from Portuguese to Greek and Persian masters.
Read More....There is a game in which the player places an open palm and splayed fingers on a table, then, using a penknife, stabs back and forth between the gaps, faster and faster.
A dangerous game. Such is Architecture.
Álvaro Siza
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Há um jogo segundo o qual, aberta a mão e afastados os dedos, se golpeiam sucessivamente os intervalos com uma navalha, cada vez mais rapidamente.
Um jogo perigoso. Assim é a arquitectura.
Álvaro Siza
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1. Art is no longer to be made mysterious
2. Imagining is knowing how to do it
3. Architecture is aimed at doing
4. Nature is not a mother
5. Each of us begins everything
6. Horror lies in the destruction of technique
7. You have to make yourself say: “I know!” And if you don’t, who does?
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1. A arte não é mais para ser feita como mistério
2. Imaginar é saber como fazer
3. A Arquitectura destina-se ao fazer, não ao ver
4. A Natureza não é mãe
5. Cada um de nós começa tudo
6. O horror está na destruição da técnica
7. Você tem de se obrigar a dizer: “Eu sei!”. Se você não souber, quem sabe?
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Read MorePeter Testa
What most resonates with the writings in “Imagining the Evident” is Siza’s commitment to new ways of seeing as the first means by which architecture becomes speculative.
Read MoreBarry Bergdoll
But Nature for Siza is neither a metaphor for Enlightenment reason, nor of its child structural rationalism, as in Laugier. For Siza is as much interested in human nature which for him has as much to do with our inner being as with some higher disembodied reason.
Read MoreJoão Gomes da Silva
When my eyes got used to the raw light of the North Coast, I contemplated sand, concrete steps, water flats between rocks, and the immense sea with the waves battling in foam. I remember thinking an obviousness, the obviousness of what Architecture is, and how it builds the Landscape. This moment changed my life, at the exact moment when I started to become a Landscape Architect.
Read MoreJonathan Sergison
More than any other architect I can think of, Álvaro Siza, has inspired me throughout my career. I first visited his buildings in Porto as a fourth-year student of architecture in 1987, although I had been aware of them throughout my studies. I was always profoundly moved by them, but they are buildings that have to been seen for their many qualities to be evident.
Read MoreDaniela Sá
When Arnold Schoenberg critiqued the work of Adolf Loos, he remarked that the possibility of invention, “was in the modes of intuition”, adding, “and this is the most noble origin of a work of art.” Banishing the idea of invention from that of novelty by forms appears to be as essential to Schoenberg in the early twentieth century as it is to Álvaro Siza, a century later.
Read MoreDaniela Sá, João Carmo Simões
“E, ainda assim, se move!” Esta é a declaração da força vital do pensamento, do desejo que mora numa ideia que já é pensada, mas que, entretanto, ainda não a vemos. Esse desejo é o que chamamos de Projecto, essa coisa que é toda para a frente, toda futuro.
Read MoreJosé Neves
De facto, não me parece que, a partir do momento em que se construiu este edifício e este jardim, possa existir um arquitecto português que não se tenha referido alguma vez a uma das características singulares da Gulbenkian, a propósito do seu próprio trabalho.
Read MoreDaniela Sá, João Carmo Simões
....Between Porto and Lisbon there was a distance only within reach of the titanic Manuel Graça Dias. He arrived by taxi just before the weekend to disconcert our ceremonies, convenient and small ..Entre o Porto e Lisboa havia uma distância apenas ao alcance do titânico Manuel Graça Dias. Chegava de táxi antes do fim-de-semana para nos desconcertar as cerimónias, convenientes e pequenas....
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