Alvaro Siza, one of the world's handful of true architectural geniuses, has just received the coveted Riba Royal Gold Medal from the Queen. This for a man whose only work in Britain was the 2005 ...

“It was like returning to the roots of architecture,” Álvaro Siza says about the experience of creating a small chapel at the top of a hill, on former farmland in Portugal. The first project by the ...

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Born in the Portuguese city of Matosinhos in 1933, Álvaro Siza studied architecture in Porto from 1949-1955, ... Of this, Siza wrote in 1980: ‘A plan is a representation and in certain cases ...

Siza is a cult figure on the architecture circuit whose work has been described as "poetic modernism". The jury citation for his 1992 Pritzker Prize states that "Like the early Modernists, his ...

In the early 1960s, Siza began building in his hometown of Porto, Portugal. Here on the fringe of Europe, he created architecture's version of slow food: subtle buildings that reveal themselves ...

Art Center College of Design has canceled a collaboration with the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza, who was hired to work on a major expansion of the campus overlooking the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.

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