Interview: Álvaro Siza, one of the world's most decorated architects, spoke to Dezeen recently in his home city of Porto, Portugal. In this interview he tells us his projects are never finished ...

Throughout the 60-year career of Álvaro Siza, his work has continuously defied categorization--having variously been described as “critical regionalism” and “poetic modernism,” with neither quite ...

Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, France—a small town near Rennes in Brittany—began an urban-development initiative more than 25 years ago, one that included 3,200 new housing units and the relocation of the ...

Architect Álvaro Siza takes inspiration from the Leça swimming pool he designed in Portugal in 1966, at the age of 28, for the new watch he has created with independent watch brand Lebond Watches. The ...

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In 1995, Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza packed a few changes of clothes, some poetry books and a single sketchbook as he set forth to Peru. These few items were all he needed to record and interpret ...

An exhibition of Álvaro Siza’s sketches of Machu Picchu makes Tim Abrahams reconsider the glorification of the architect’s scrawl On his trip to Machu Picchu in 1995, Álvaro Siza bought whatever ...

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning Álvaro Siza has teamed up with Swiss brand Cauny to produce the Cauny X Siza watch collection. Siza partnered with Cauny director Filipe Costa Almeida to design a ...

The CCA is like a kid that wants to walk out of the shop wearing the new bright shoes he just bought. In keeping with a practice they have had for over a decade now, despite calling it “Out of the Box ...

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Álvaro Siza has made his mark in major cities across Europe, with varied commissions that include swimming pools, apartment complexes, university buildings, and ...

At 91, Álvaro Siza, a Pritzker Prize–winning architect who has designed floating offices in China and a brutalist art foundation in Brazil, no longer travels outside Porto, the northern coastal city ...