Álvaro Siza: Bouça: Residents' Association Housing, Porto 1972-77, 2005-06, O'Nfm Vol.1 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783803006844)

From start to finish, it took the Modernist Portuguese architect lvaro Siza, winner of the 1992 Pritzker Prize and designer of The Serpentine Gallery's 2005 Summer Pavilion, 33 years to construct the Bou a Residents' Association Housing in the northern city of Porto--which he realized in association with architect Ant nio Madureira. During those years, Siza completed numerous important commissions, including the architecture faculty building at the University of Porto in 1985 and the Funda o Serralves museum of contemporary art in that same city in 1999. In 1988 he restored the Chiado district of Lisbon, Portugal, after a devastating fire; and his Portuguese Pavilion for Lisbon's EXPO 98 was internationally recognized. While Siza was busy with all of these buildings and plans, the first phase of the Bou a project was falling ever deeper into disrepair, hampered by municipal neglect. It has since been brought up to Siza's standards, and this publication appraises the project, now happily completed. Siza's sketches, many of which are published here for the first time, reveal the tenacity of his search for the right solution.

Author: Álvaro Siza
ISBN-10: 3803006848
ISBN-13: 9783803006844
Publisher: Wasmuth
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2008
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 11.50h x 8.40w x 0.40d