Feliz Aniversário Excelentíssimo Senhor Siza. living legend Alvaro Siza turns 81.

Álvaro Joaquim de Melo Siza Vieira is a Portuguese architect, without any exaggeration a living myth and a piece of history of the international architecture of the past 100 years. Today he turns 81 and we’ve rounded up some of his most inspiring works, as seen in archdaily.

Edifício de Escritórios | Novartis Campus – 2012. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Lérida University – 2008. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Fundação Iberê Camargo – 2008. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

 

 

Mimesis Museum | with Carlos Castanheira & Jun Sung Kim – 2011. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Amore Pacific Campus – with Carlos Castanheira & Kim Jong Kyu. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Parque Atlântico – 2005. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

Winery Mayor – 2007. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Gondomar Sports Complex – 2008. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Santo Ovídio Chapel – 2002. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

 

Borges & Irmão Bank – 1986. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

 

Portuguese pavilion for Expo 98 – 1998. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

“Insel Hombroich” Museum – 2009. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

 

House in South Korea – 2012. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Amore Pacific Campus – with Carlos Castanheira & Kim Jong Kyu. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

“The relationship between nature and construction is decisive in architecture. This relationship, a permanent feature of any project, is to me a kind of obsession; it was always decisive in the course of history, and yet, today tends towards gradual extinction.”

 

Leça da Palmeira Swimming Pool – 1966. Image © FG+SG – Fernando Guerra, Sergio Guerra

 

Source: archdaily, deeze