Before / After Álvaro Siza

Before / After: Álvaro Siza by Duccio Malagamba presents the work of the Portuguese master architect through a distinctive structural conceit — pairing photographs of his buildings taken immediately after construction with photographs taken decades later, showing how time, weather, use, and the growth of landscape transform his architecture. Siza, the 1992 Pritzker Prize laureate, designs buildings of extraordinary refinement and contextual sensitivity, and this book reveals how they age — whether they improve, how they accumulate patina and meaning, and what they look like when inhabited rather than empty. Published by Phaidon with Malagamba’s characteristic photographic intelligence, this is an essential contribution to the Siza literature and a fascinating meditation on how buildings exist in time.