This double issue of El Croquis profiles Alvaro Siza’s recent work in this special edition. Featuring projects since 2015, it underlines why the Portuguese architect remains one of the most respected designers today.
A variety of typologies and scales are covered, from extremely compact works such as the Clay Pavilion for teaching local earthenware techniques in Oaxaca (Mexico), a chapel in Miljana (Croatia) as part of a farmhouse restoration project, and an observation tower with lookout post in the Portuguese mountains, to prominent works like the Huamao Museum of Art Education (China) and the Gramaxo Foundation Headquarters in Maia (Portugal), and many more.
Features:
Nadir Afonso Foundation, Chaves
'The Building on the Water' Shilien Chemical Industrial Factory, Jiangsu
Internation Museum of Contemporary Architecture [MIEC],Santo Tirso
Llinars del Vallès Theatre-Auditorium
Chia Ching Mausoleum, New Taipei City
Church in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande
China Design Museum. Bauhaus Collection
Art Pavilion, Chapel and Belvedere in Saya Park
Clay Pavilion in Oaxaca
Capela do Monte en Lagos
Cinema House Manoel Oliveira, Oporto
Residential Complex in Gallarate
House in Maia
Huamao Museum of Art and Education [MoAE], Ningbo
Chapel in Miljana
Taifong Golf Club
Vila Adeuzinho House, Sintra
Gramaxo Foundation Headquarters, Maia
Observation Tower with Lookout Post, Serra das Talhadas
Tower in Manhattan
'Alcaide Mor' Suites and Villas, Estremoz
Cais do Cavaco River Port, Vila nova da gaia
This double issue of El Croquis profiles Alvaro Siza’s recent work in this special edition. Featuring projects since 2015, it underlines why the Portuguese architect remains one of the most respected designers today.
A variety of typologies and scales are covered, from extremely compact works such as the Clay Pavilion for teaching local earthenware techniques in Oaxaca (Mexico), a chapel in Miljana (Croatia) as part of a farmhouse restoration project, and an observation tower with lookout post in the Portuguese mountains, to prominent works like the Huamao Museum of Art Education (China) and the Gramaxo Foundation Headquarters in Maia (Portugal), and many more.
Features:
Nadir Afonso Foundation, Chaves
'The Building on the Water' Shilien Chemical Industrial Factory, Jiangsu
Internation Museum of Contemporary Architecture [MIEC],Santo Tirso
Llinars del Vallès Theatre-Auditorium
Chia Ching Mausoleum, New Taipei City
Church in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande
China Design Museum. Bauhaus Collection
Art Pavilion, Chapel and Belvedere in Saya Park
Clay Pavilion in Oaxaca
Capela do Monte en Lagos
Cinema House Manoel Oliveira, Oporto
Residential Complex in Gallarate
House in Maia
Huamao Museum of Art and Education [MoAE], Ningbo
Chapel in Miljana
Taifong Golf Club
Vila Adeuzinho House, Sintra
Gramaxo Foundation Headquarters, Maia
Observation Tower with Lookout Post, Serra das Talhadas
Tower in Manhattan
'Alcaide Mor' Suites and Villas, Estremoz
Cais do Cavaco River Port, Vila nova da gaia
