What Siza Says & What Siza Does

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Whitman, Koolhaas and Siza – The Beauty in Contradiction |

November 24, 2016

[…] In architecture – as with people, Peter Zumthor would say – there is always a first impression that you get – frequently through imagery – that might not live up to the reality of when you visit it. I remember as a student to hear someone apparently quote Siza on windows. He allegedly said something along the lines of “there is nothing more stupid than an open window towards the landscape”. I agreed – and still agree – with that but at the same time I was very confused knowing that he had just built this library in Viana do Castelo (2008). […]