Advisor: João Masao Kamita
Dissertation: Álvaro Siza at Iberê Camargo Foundation
Defense date: 14/11/2022
Abstract
This work aims to reflect on Architecture and place: the paths of Álvaro
Siza’s architecture, architecture that is topological and attentive to context, pre-exis-
tence, concreteness, history, culture, socio-cultural issues, which reverberates no-
tions of time, fragment, memory, experience and place. This reflection will be ela-
borated taking the Iberê Camargo Foundation project (Porto Alegre, 1998-2008) as
the focus of analysis. Since in Siza there is no prior concept of place, but a “case by
case” that involves multiple relationships and dimensions, we will pose the fol-
lowing concern: how does architect Alvaro Siza carry out the question of place in
the Foundation’s project? For this, we bring cartography as a way of approaching,
using it as a possible tool for perceiving the relationships that the architect establis-
hes to create a place, and, thus, go through the poetics of the architect in the Founda-
tion’s project.