Manuel Montenegro and Álvaro Siza discuss the placement of Siza's yellow columns at Shatwell Farm. Recorded in January 2016 in Siza's office.
Álvaro Siza’s influence at Shatwell Farm began with the move of the Drawings Collection to Shatwell in 2012. In the same year Stephen Taylor Architects completed the Cowshed and Hugh Strange Architects completed the Archive building.
Well known for his seminal Quinta da Malagueira housing estate (1973-1977) in Evora, Portugal, Siza appreciated the scale of Hugh Strange’s intervention because it achieved the right scale ‘not only in the sense of the dimensions, but of its meaning in the complex’.
Siza has remained involved in negotiating the subtleties of site and sense-making, specifically with the development of the Silos and the placement of his three yellow precast concrete columns, first designed and installed at the Sensing Spaces exhibition at the Royal Academy in 2014.
Find out more about the buildings and site at Shatwell Farm:
drawingmatter.org/tag/shatwel...
About Drawing Matter
Drawing Matter is an organisation that explores the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice. Our inquiries have been presented as exhibitions, publications, public events, and workshops for students and practitioners. We hold an archive of architectural drawings dating from the sixteenth century to the present day. The Drawing Matter Collection is housed at Shatwell Farm, Somerset.
drawingmatter.org/ is a fast-growing repository of new and historical writing on architecture and drawing. Many of the texts address material in the Drawing Matter Collection, but we also publish writing on drawings and objects archived elsewhere, and made by practitioners working today.
Негізгі бет Álvaro Siza plans the placement of his columns at Shatwell Farm (2016)
Пікірлер