Showing posts with label Porto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Porto. Show all posts

Friday, 15 May 2009

Alvaro Siza: Serralves Foundation, Porto 1995-99



















This Museum sits in a beautifully maintained park with views framed from the windows of its generously proportioned galleries. The sober monumentalism of its minimal detailing creates a sequence of abstract vistas that lead the visitor toward the sky-lit spaces for contemporary art and out into the garden. Here the white volumes stand as mute counterparts to the varied forms of a nature educated to be natural.

Monday, 11 May 2009

Alvaro Siza: Faculty of Architecture, Porto 1987-93










The Faculty of Architecture displays narrative qualities applied to an urban scale. Its panoramic location helps Siza frame views of the city and the River Duoro. The individual articulation of the studio blocks are supported by the plaza / podium and administrative wings which line the ascending journey through the building, by linear and curving ramps to the repository of architectural knowledge in the library.
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