A ideia de cidade, em Álvaro Siza.

• Autor(a) principal: Maria Manuel Sales de Lucena Sampaio e Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/150045
• topic: Artes; Arts

The present study seeks to understand Álvaro Siza's perspective of city throughout his experience and architectural production. Indeed, in all his work, he seems aware that every project is part of the city's evolutionary process. The unique features of each place are evidence of the city's history and evolution. Thus, the architecture of Siza, respecting memories from the past and its fragments, seeks to restore a balanced unity. During the seventies, he already manipulates a modern language while recognizing the complex and fragmentary nature of city and architecture, particularly in S. Vítor. In fact, the project of renovation of S. Vítor´s area (1974-77), informed by his previous experiences of collective housing, involves several forms of relations with the city. Through the study of the various interventions covered by this project, it is possible to see how Siza designs the space on behalf of a positive and versatile relation with the city. The knowledge developed through the analysis of this project crosses itself with the understanding of his methodology, which Siza exposes in his statements. After S. Vítor, Siza continues his architectural experience, maturing his idea of city. On one hand, the plan for Malagueira, in Évora, and the plan for Porto Exterior and Areia Preta, in Macau, correspond to the urbanization of large areas contiguous to the city and explore the relation between the proposed urban shapes and the place's character. On the other hand, the projects for Kreuzberg, in Berlin, Schilderswijk and Doedijnstraat, in Haia, and Chiado, at Lisbon, concern mainly the intervention on defined sections of the existing city, but on very different conditions and aspirations. The diversity of these projects is fundamental in order to find the essential and immutable features of the arquitecture of Álvaro Siza and his idea of city. The presence of various references is implicit in the work of the architect. Fernando Távora and Alvar Aalto are fundamental characters regarding to the relation with the place and the dialectic tradition/modernity. Moreover, Aldo Rossi is an important character by having a critical position in relation to the modern movement, particularly the Charte d'Athenes. He proposes a new approach to the architecture and city based on their fragmentary condition and the circularity of time, which significantly affects Siza's work.