LB 38 ÁLVARO SIZA fundação gramaxo, is the thirty-eighth title from LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.
I could continue describing the remarkable way in which Siza transforms the place, achieving a harmony between the existing and the new, between the built and the natural, as an enhancement of the territory in which the new simultaneously becomes an inseparable part of what is already there. However, what struck me most in this first project on which I collaborated, was the intelligence and sensitivity with which Siza interpreted and responded to the commission.
Siza created a large house rather, and not a small museum. (…)
MARIA SOUTO DE MOURA
