Architect

Álvaro Siza

1933 — · Portuguese

Pritzker Prize laureate (1992) and the most internationally recognized Portuguese architect of the twentieth century. Working from Porto since the late 1950s, Siza developed a quietly radical modernism rooted in site, climate and the Mediterranean tradition of whitewashed walls. From the Boa Nova Tea House to the Iberê Camargo Foundation, his buildings choreograph movement, daylight and silence.

“Architecture answers to the place — every wall, every angle is a response to ground, light and the body that will move through it.”