ALVARO SIZA | in/discipline

Retrospective publication gathering selected works from Siza's full archives from three separate institutions.

Siza's sketches and drawings for 30 projects fill roughly half of the book.
The rest of the book documents publications,writings, travel sketches, as well as essays on Siza's work.
"Traces" and "Trajectories" features a pictoral catalog of publications by or on Siza, going back to 1960.

Fine to as-new condition. Linen covers and page block has minor imperfections. Spine has very minimal lean.

From the publisher :
"The essential survey on Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alvaro Siza's restless creativity, in 30 projects over the past 60 years Once, on the inner flap of one of his sketchbooks, Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect and educator Alvaro Siza (born 1933) described himself and his work with self-deprecating disavowal. Rather than identifying his discipline as architecture, he identified it as "as little as possible." This confessional note is the point of departure for Alvaro Siza: (In)Discipline, a retrospective survey that highlights the currents of disquiet and insubordination within the renowned architect's creative method and production, surveying Siza's design process through a selection of 30 of his projects, built and unbuilt, spanning more than six decades. The publication starts with Siza's first works in Matonsinhos--the Four Dwellings in Matosinhos (1957), the Boa Nova Tea House (1963) and the Ocean Swimming Pool in Leça da Palmeira, Portugal (1973)--and includes recently completed work and projects under construction, including the Mimesis Museum in South Korea (2009), the Church in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande, France (2018) and the Residential Tower in New York (ongoing), his first project in the US."

8.75 x 10.5 inches