One of the most consistent and yet fully surprising architects working today, Álvaro Siza, Pritzker Prize shares his List spanning from fundamental editions on Alvar Aalto or Walther Gropius, to lesser-known Italian modernism, Brazil, critical history and philosophy, a striking novel, and poetry, from Portuguese to Greek and Persian masters.

....There is a game in which the player places an open palm and splayed fingers on a table, then, using a penknife, stabs back and forth between the gaps, faster and faster.
A dangerous game. Such is Architecture.

Álvaro Siza

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Há um jogo segundo o qual, aberta a mão e afastados os dedos, se golpeiam sucessivamente os intervalos com uma navalha, cada vez mais rapidamente.
Um jogo perigoso. Assim é a arquitectura.

Álvaro Siza

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