Alvaro Siza: 'Bonjour Tristesse' Apartment Building, Berlin 1987

The series of Alvaro Siza posts conclude with this film produced in 2007 for MSA Field Trip Films by Romulus Sim, David Reynolds and Katie Thomas
The film has been linked and commented on as follows.
Linked from the Greek Blog http://datascape.blogspot.com/
Linked from the video site http://www.videoronk.com/
Linked from the German blog http://referendare07.blogspot.com/
Linked from the Portuguese / Swiss Blog http://paginapreta.blogspot.com/
U.S. comment "nicely done, I think siza would love it!"
Spanish comment "it is what i would have liked to do about this magic building and its story."
Iberian comment "Genial!"
Linked from the blog http://architectureinberlin.wordpress.com

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.

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.

Alvaro Siza: Boa Nova Tea House, Leça de Palmeira 1958-63

This early work by Siza has survived a half-century without officious preservation. Its subtle relationship to its craggy site is matched by the delicacy of its organization and the robustness of its construction. The journey through the landscape continues in the inflection of the plan and nestling section. The influence of Japanese and Scandinavian architecture is manifested in the most Portuguese ways, but particularly in the relationship to that alluring horizon glimpsed in a clerestory window as one pauses before descending to the principal rooms.

New Urbanity: Siza in Evora

Alvaro Siza’s project for housing in Quinta da Malagueira outside the ancient city of Evora.
Begun in 1977, the neighbourhood is an immediate product of the revolution of the carnations in 1974 and the work of SAAL. The morphology of the original Roman settlement is continued through the design of 1200 low-cost, single family units, with arcades to the public areas. Harvard University Graduate School of Design recognised the design with the award in 1988 of the Prince of Wales Prize.

These photographs will feature in the forthcoming exhibition "New Urbanity: The European City of the 21st Century" at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) showing from 5 December 2008 until 22 February 2009 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The project will be supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs, Germany.
The exhibition focuses on the public space of the modern European city and its architecture.