vowe dot net (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
‘casa tóló’ is the creation of portuguese architect álvaro leite siza vieira, son of the 1992 pritzker prize winner álvaro siza vieira. located on a steep hill in northern portugual, siza was confronted with a difficult building site. instead of fighting the natural environment, the architect embraced it using the ...
architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVUZ2Lt7Hg A documentary from the Architectures series on “The Siza School” - the Faculty of Architecture buildings at the Porto architecture school, designed by Alvaro Siza . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj07tcjwAHA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoqkLMNN9TY :: Video Sundays, or VS, is a weekly feature here on AMNP. For more architecture-related videos, click on...
A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Here's a few shots of The Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil by Alvaro Siza. Photos by Arqfeevale , who has many more shots of the building. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add photos to the archidose pool , and/or :: Tag your photos archidose
NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Alvaro Siza designed the new building for the Fundacion Ibere Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It opened a few weeks ago. A rectangular white concrete structure with circulations going out of its facade.
Blogs for the NC State Community (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Patricia Oliver Senior Vice President, Educational Planning and Architecture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Patricia Belton Oliver, born and raised in Southern California, received her undergraduate degrees from UCLA in Literature and Independent Studies. Her undergraduate thesis was on the "Transition from Verbal to Visual Thinking" and she completed her studies at UCLA with...
The Guardian Art blog (Free subscription) | 03/26/2008
Frank Gehry is to design this summer's Serpentine Pavilion. Is his feted 'Bilbao effect' about to sweep through Britain?
Press Booth (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
Overseas property portal www.HomesGoFast.com reports a new trend in the types of homes that are now available to the international real estate buyer. Property developers are now employing the services of celebrity architects to appeal to the discerning luxury home buyers.
Pravda (Free subscription) | 11/28/2007
Spanish art collector Baroness Carmen Thyssen will move the Thyssen museum to another part of Madrid in case the proposed building works will be started on one of the city's most emblematic streets.
COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
A person's handwriting says a lot about his or her personality; a strong right slant suggests a fierce emotional side while small size might refer to a penchant for details. This idea wasn't lost on Italian designer Cleto Munari, who asked famous architects and designers to come up with with a set of five beautiful pens, each inspired by a Nobel Prize-winning writer. The...
A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | 11/15/2007
"Reduction is always risky, but [Alvaro] Siza's observations [on his working process] could be simplified in this manner: place: origin of all architecture." " distance: provided by the fact that it's others who build." " discussion: pay attention to those who will be using the building." " contingency: the solutions to the specific problems of each job are to be found in the conflicts that accompany...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/01/2007
We don't have to travel far to see how architecture can be a natural part of an intellectual, artistic, national and urban culture. The finest example is, undoubtedly,...
