Álvaro Siza: transformações nas estratégias projetuais nos museus entre 1988 e 1998

Abstract

This article aims to report partial results of the research that analyzed nine projects of the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza (1933), produced between the years 1966 and 1998, from the trinomial "archeology, metamorphosis and inflection". From a careful analysis of the work of the Portuguese architect, there are indications of the existence of continuous processes of recovery, transformation and updating of solutions in his repertoire of previous projects, in new contexts, a process that would be qualified by Vittorio Gregotti (1972) , with the term "autonomous archeology". Based on these considerations, the presupposition synthesized in the title of this work suggests a key to the reading and understanding of Siza's work from the idea that three more radical inflections of language would have been tributary and triggered by three previous unprecedented projects, which could be considered their "foreshadowing". This article presents the importance of the experiences lived in the project for Galician Center for Contemporary Art in Santiago de Compostela (1988-93), and in the unbuilt project for the Museum of two Picassos, Madrid (1992), in the transformations of project’s strategies presented in the Museum for the Iberê Camargo Foundation (1998-2008), built in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The work seeks to highlight the relevance of memory, accumulation of influences and previous experiences in the design process of the architect Álvaro Siza.