Book

Alvaro Siza: Complete Works 1952-2013

A large-format survey following Siza's houses, public buildings, and urban interventions across six decades.

monograph

2014

English

Hardcover

640 pages

Alvaro Siza Portuguese architecture coastal architecture topography urban repair concrete monograph Hardcover

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Edition

Kenneth Frampton

Phaidon · London

Alvaro Siza · Portuguese architecture · coastal architecture

Architects

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Architect

Alvaro Siza

Born 1933 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

A Portuguese architect whose buildings reconcile topography, urban memory, and formal restraint with extraordinary precision.

Bureaus

Practices this book is currently attached to

Bureau

Alvaro Siza Vieira

studio · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

1958

A studio whose buildings often feel quietly inevitable, tuned to coastline, streetscape, and the grain of everyday use.

Cities

Cities surfaced through the current book relationships

City

Matosinhos

Porto District, Portugal

A coastal city north of Porto where Siza's early seaside projects recalibrated modern architecture through landscape and rock.

City

Porto

Porto District, Portugal

A city where Siza's teaching, urban work, and crafted modernism remain deeply intertwined.

Works

Precedents explicitly linked to this book in the current corpus

Work

Boa Nova Tea House

1958-1963 · Matosinhos, Porto District, Portugal

Tea house and restaurant

Alvaro Siza

Work

Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto

1987-1993 · Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Architecture school

Alvaro Siza