Even. Alvaro Siza. Santa Maria Church Marco de Canavezes, Portugal

Picture by Duccio Malagamba.

"The Santa Maria church's layout interacts with
the light that baths the curved forms of the apse
and the overall space of the church. The natural
lighting varies over time depending on the position
of the sun, from the projection of a single shaft of
light to the silence of dispersal" Alvaro Siza



"One of Siza's masterpieces is undeniably the church in
Marco de Canavezes, a space where he assigns a sacred
dimension, as it were, to the light". Marc Dubois

Even. Alvaro Siza. An architect, an artist.

"Architecture has to speak its own language, touching the observer
at levels far deeper than those of rational thought"
(William J.R. Curtis, architecture historian and critic)


Santa Maria Church, Marco de Canavezes, Portugal. 1996.


Iberê Camargo Museum, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 2008.




Fernando Tavora after Alvaro Siza.
(A drawing within a drawing)

"The act of drawing becomes the way you express your thoughts and your memories to yourself and to the others, the way you foresee the construction of reality." (Alvaro Siza)