Before After: Álvaro Siza presents twenty projects personally selected by one of the twentieth century's most significant architects, pairing Siza's own hand drawings with three decades of photography by Duccio Malagamba to trace how his buildings read across time and geography.
About This Book
Rather than a conventional monograph, this volume is structured around an intimate act of collaboration: Álvaro Siza selecting the twenty works he wanted examined, then placing his hand drawings in direct conversation with Malagamba's architectural photography. The result captures something a survey rarely can — the distance between a building as conceived and as inhabited. With projects spread across Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal, South Korea, and Spain, the book maps Siza's global practice while grounding each project in the particular. For anyone serious about contemporary architecture, spatial thinking, or the relationship between drawing and built form, this is a rare document.
Key Features
- 312 pages of hand drawings by Álvaro Siza and architectural photography by Duccio Malagamba
- Conceived together by Álvaro Siza and Duccio Malagamba
- Twenty projects across Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Portugal, South Korea, and Spain
- Published by Phaidon Press, ISBN: 9781838668181
What You'll Discover
- How Siza's hand drawings function not as documentation but as a distinct interpretive lens on his own built work
- The sustained visual relationship between architect and photographer across three decades of collaboration
- Siza's approach to elegant simplicity, detail, and the integration of buildings within their surrounding environments — examined across diverse cultural and climatic contexts
- A curated self-portrait of a practice: the twenty projects Siza himself considered worth returning to
About the Author
Álvaro Siza, born in Portugal in 1933, is the recipient of the Pritzker Prize, the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, and the Praemium Imperiale. Duccio Malagamba is an architectural photographer whose working relationship with Siza spans more than thirty years.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 312
- Dimensions: 320 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781838668181
- Publisher: Phaidon Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, design students, and photography collectors drawn to the intersection of drawing, built form, and the long arc of a major architectural practice.