Siza, Souto de Moura, Moneo, Calatrava and Barragan...
From Santiago de Compostela to Porto, Murcia, Alicante and Valencia...

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December Sunset
Alvaro Siza
Ocean Swimming Pool (1996)
Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

With our car full of books and our iBooks full of future features we are on the way from a Porto sunset towards a Barcelona sunrise.....

What we see is what you get, and we have seen some fantastic buildings that we can’t wait to tell you about. Following are lots of “teasers”.....

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Alvaro Siza
Galician Center for Contemporary Art (1993)
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Siza was also responsible for the adjoining Santo Domingo de Bonaval Garden (1994)

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Alvaro Siza
University of Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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Alvaro Siza
Boa Nova Tea House and Restaurant (1963 -1991)
Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

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Alvaro Siza
Ocean Swimming Pool (1996)
Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

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Alvaro Siza
Faculty of Architecture (1993)
University of Porto, Portugal

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First Sunday of Advent Mass
Santa Maria Church (1996-)
Marco de Canavezes, Portugal

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Alvaro Siza
Serralves Foundation (1999)
Porto, Portugal

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Alvaro Siza
Alvaro Siza Office (1996)
Porto, Portugal
Alvaro Siza shares his “Casa Portugesa”, finished in 1996, with a number of other Porto architects that includes his friend Eduardo Souto de Moura.

Sketches courtesy Alvaro Siza & Eduardo Souto de Moura
Souto de Moura sketched by Siza
Siza sketched by Souto de Moura

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Eduardo Souto de Moura
Silo Norte Shopping (1998)
Matosinhos, Portugal

Sketch courtesy Eduardo Souto de Moura
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Braga Stadium
Completion 2004

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Alvaro Siza
Rectory of the University of Alicante (1998)
Alicante, Spain

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Rafael Moneo
Murcia Town Hall
Murcia, Spain

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Santiago Calatrava
City of Arts and Sciences (in construction)
Valencia, Spain

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IVAM Valencia
Luis Barragán Exhibition
The Quiet Revolution
Next week we will have a full review of the exhibition

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Travel Log

December 3
Corbusier, Moneo, Calatrava, Foster, Gehry, Soriano/Palacios, Pelli, Legorreta, Stern and Isozaki...
From Pessac through San Sebastian and Bilbao to Coruña....

November 26
Gehry, Botta, Corbusier, Nouvel, Calatrava, Piano, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Hollein.....
Basel through Lyon, to Clermont Ferrand and Sarlat.....

November 19
Siza, Grimshaw, Hadid, Meier, Ando, Botta, Gehry, Herzog & de Meuron, Piano, Buckminster Fuller and Melchior Berri....
Weil am Rhein and Basel.....

December 10, 2001