Álvaro Siza: in / discipline
Event
Name: Álvaro Siza
Discipline: As little as possible
This confessional note - once written by Álvaro Siza on the inner endpaper of one of his sketchbooks – was the starting point for this commemorative exhibition of the 20th anniversary of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.
Álvaro Siza: in / discipline reveals to us the salutary disquiet and insubordination of his creative method which, forged at the cross-fertilization of knowledges, cultures, geographies, works and authors, has sustained, for more than six decades, a constant questioning of architecture from, simultaneously, what is inside and outside the discipline.
Featuring thirty projects carried out between 1954 and 2019 (both built or unbuilt), the exhibition traces the professional trajectory of Álvaro Siza, since the period of his education to his full consolidation as an architect, through his readings, his sketchbooks and travel records, and the way his work was portrayed, photographically in seminal publications and verbally in personal statements by many of those contemporaries who have crossed paths with it over time.
Discipline: As little as possible
This confessional note - once written by Álvaro Siza on the inner endpaper of one of his sketchbooks – was the starting point for this commemorative exhibition of the 20th anniversary of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.
Álvaro Siza: in / discipline reveals to us the salutary disquiet and insubordination of his creative method which, forged at the cross-fertilization of knowledges, cultures, geographies, works and authors, has sustained, for more than six decades, a constant questioning of architecture from, simultaneously, what is inside and outside the discipline.
Featuring thirty projects carried out between 1954 and 2019 (both built or unbuilt), the exhibition traces the professional trajectory of Álvaro Siza, since the period of his education to his full consolidation as an architect, through his readings, his sketchbooks and travel records, and the way his work was portrayed, photographically in seminal publications and verbally in personal statements by many of those contemporaries who have crossed paths with it over time.
