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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
A hidden beauty. Siza’s adequacy lesson at the secret and delicate MMH
Contributor:
Tostões, Ana
imprint:
Docomomo International, 2021
Published in:Docomomo Journal
Language:
Not determined
DOI:
10.52200/64.a.nf43k3ae
ISSN:
2773-1634;
1380-3204
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>For the design of the Manuel Magalhães House (1967-1970), Álvaro Siza revisited the purist rationalist principles of Modern Movement architecture. This project represents a shift in his work after the first Matosinhos’ houses and the Tea House of Leça da Palmeira. The appeal to the vernacular roots and a kind of telluric topos that characterized the works of the 1950s, in this project gave rise to an abstract and minimalist approach applied to a domestic life. Intricate and meticulous in all its details from inside to out, in this house the overall design achieves a perfect harmony, in other words, a balanced and beautiful gesamkunstwerk.</jats:p>