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Architecture of Alvaro Siza Public and Private Architecture in Different Contexts

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Architecture of Álvaro Siza Public and Private Architecture in Different Contexts

Exhibition
space I

Exhibition
space II

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Saturday, June 2 – Saturday, July 28, 2007

11:00-18:00(Fri.-19:00)
Close on Sun.Mon.Holidays
Admission Free

The Exhibition is displayed in the two floors of the Gallery Ma.

1) First floor (the patio and the interior space of the gallery)

1a)	Patio: an installation organising the space through different building materials - wood, stone, steel, plywood, and one brick around the existing natural rock.
1b)	Interior space: tables with sketches. Tables with models and hard-line drawings on the walls.

2)	Second Floor Articulated panels in plywood with sketches, tables with models, hard-line drawing on the walls, projection area.

3)	The display of panels and tables organise an architectural promenade

Álvaro Siza

Álvaro Siza is an architect based in Porto, Portugal, who has been active for more than half a century. His spaces, which transcend the context of modernism and give a feeling of universal beauty and tranquillity, have been highly appraised, and Siza has received numerous awards from various countries. His design activities, which began in the 1950s in his birthplace of Matosinhos, have now spread throughout the world, including such countries as Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil, and South Korea.

Architecture always stands amid different conditions. Siza says that in making designs one of the important stances is to be able to respond sensitively to changes in conditions. The exhibition will feature seven of his representative works, including his latest works, that have a differing “context” and “nature of work.” It will show Siza’s approach in the design of each work and introduce his universal and poetic space quality that is given shape in each work.

Ocean Swimming Pool
1961-66