Interview with Álvaro Siza: ?Beauty Is the Peak of Functionality!?
Throughout the 60-year career of Álvaro Siza, his work has continuously defied categorization--having variously been described as ?critical regionalism? and ?poetic modernism,? with neither quite capturing the true essence of Siza's intuitive architecture. In this interview, the latest in Vladimir Belogolovsky's ?City of Ideas? series, Siza discusses those attempts to categorize his work, his design approach and the role of beauty in his designs.
Fundação Iberê Camargo. Image © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG
Throughout the 60-year career of Álvaro Siza, his work has continuously defied categorization--having variously been described as ?critical regionalism? and ?poetic modernism,? with neither quite capturing the true essence of Siza's intuitive architecture. In this interview, the latest in Vladimir Belogolovsky's ?City of Ideas? series, Siza discusses those attempts to categorize his work, his design approach and the role of beauty in his designs.Vladimir Belogolovsky: Your student, Eduardo Souto de Moura said, ?Siza?s houses are just like cats sleeping in the sun.?Álvaro Siza: [Laughs.] Yes, he meant that my buildings assume the most natural postures on the site. There is also a reference in that to the human body.
Leça Swimming Pools. Image © Wikimedia user Christian Gänshirt licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
VB: Do you think it is important or even possible for an architec...
Fundação Iberê Camargo. Image © Fernando Guerra | FG + SG
Throughout the 60-year career of Álvaro Siza, his work has continuously defied categorization--having variously been described as ?critical regionalism? and ?poetic modernism,? with neither quite capturing the true essence of Siza's intuitive architecture. In this interview, the latest in Vladimir Belogolovsky's ?City of Ideas? series, Siza discusses those attempts to categorize his work, his design approach and the role of beauty in his designs.Vladimir Belogolovsky: Your student, Eduardo Souto de Moura said, ?Siza?s houses are just like cats sleeping in the sun.?Álvaro Siza: [Laughs.] Yes, he meant that my buildings assume the most natural postures on the site. There is also a reference in that to the human body.
Leça Swimming Pools. Image © Wikimedia user Christian Gänshirt licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
VB: Do you think it is important or even possible for an architec...
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