Architecture Book Description
Publication Date: April 30, 2013 | ISBN-10: 3836521717 | ISBN-13: 978-3836521710
The seminal book on Portugal's master architect
When Álvaro Siza, one of the great figures of contemporary architecture, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize in 1992, the Jury citation described his shapes as “molded by light, [with] a deceptive simplicity about them; they are honest. They solve design problems directly…. That simplicity, upon closer examination however, is revealed as great complexity. There is a subtle mastery underlying what appears to be natural creations.”
Born in Matosinhos, Portugal, in 1933, Siza created his own practice in Porto in 1954, and he has been a Professor of Construction at the University there since 1976. He received the European Community’s Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1988 and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan in 1997, the 2009 RIBA Gold Medal, and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale.
He has built a large number of projects in Portugal, and worked on the restructuring of the Chiado area of Lisbon following the devastating 1988 fire. Siza designed both the Portuguese Pavilion for the 1998 Lisbon World’s Fair and the 2005 Serpentine Pavilion in London in collaboration with Eduardo Souto de Moura. He completed the Serralves Foundation (Porto, 1998), and the Museum for the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2008.
The author:
Philip Jodidio studied art history and economics at Harvard, and edited Connaissance des Arts for over 20 years. His books include TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series, and monographs on Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Jean Nouvel, and Zaha Hadid. He is internationally renowned as one of the most popular writers on the subject of architecture.
Product Details
Hardcover: 520 pages
Publisher: Taschen (April 30, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3836521717
ISBN-13: 978-3836521710
(b.1933) is one of
the world's most respected architects. The recipient of many awards,
including the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 1992, Siza
has built and taught in Portugal and internationally since the late
1950s. This monograph is a comprehensive study of Siza's work, from his
early built work - the Boa Nova Tea House, Portugal (1958-63) - to his
latest projects. Siza has received critical acclaim for works in Germany
(Schlesisches Tor, Berlin), Spain (Galician Centre for Contemporary
Art, Santiago de Compostela), Italy (restoration of the Campo di Marte,
Venice) and Portugal (Portugese Pavilion at Expo '98, Lisbon). His
projects have been exhibited widely. Siza's architecture is vigorous and
coherent and distinctively apt to respond to the environment without
detracting from its functional and stylistic identity. This book charts
over 40 years of work to cover built works, projects, writings,
photographs, drawings and many of Siza's sketches. An extensive
introduction by Kenneth Frampton describes the works' evolution, while
writings by Siza himself are interspersed throughout the volume,
offering a unique personal perspective to his work and to
twentieth-century architecture as a whole.
