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Álvaro Siza: The Epic of Silent Light

Name: Álvaro Siza: The Epic of Silent Light
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Author: Imad Darouich

ألفارو سيزا: ملحمة الضوء الصامت

Álvaro Siza's architecture followed through his own works: a childhood by the Atlantic, the lessons of Távora and Aalto, the Boa Nova Tea House and the Leça swimming pools, the Bouça and Malagueira housing, the Porto school, the Santa Maria church, Serralves and the Portugal Pavilion, asking how much wall a person needs.

Format: PDF ebook
Languages: Arabic and English
Collection: Architects

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Álvaro Siza is approached through a question about how much wall a person needs for shelter and how much window the soul needs to breathe. The narrator follows his childhood by the Atlantic, the lessons of Fernando Távora and Alvar Aalto and the sketchbook, then the Boa Nova Tea House set among rock and sea, the Leça swimming pools shaping the edge between safety and the ocean, and the social housing of Bouça and Malagueira. The Porto school as a building that teaches, the Santa Maria church, the Serralves museum and garden, the Portugal Pavilion and the Iberê Camargo Foundation in Brazil follow. The book ends by imagining someone entering one of these buildings long from now, when the designer's face is absent from its story.

And to the light that entered our old homes, awakening a warmth in stone that I still seek.

We may leave our first street, yet carry its proportions and sounds into what we draw.

I return to my drawings seeking the idea worth strengthening.

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