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Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Alvaro Siza

By David Basulto — Filed under: Museums and Libraries , , ,

The new building for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil designed by Portugal´s Alvaro Siza, is a big rectangular white concrete structure. It has a big central space enclose by circulations and exhibition spaces. Some of this circulations separate from the main body as arms going out through the facade.

I´ve always loved the big white orthogonal Siza buildings, and i think that this form is really informed by brazilian modernists, resulting on sculptural rock in front of the river with an amazing light use, a tradition on Siza´s works.

Pictures by Grazielle Bruscato, plans taken from Fundação Iberê Camargo.


15 Comments to “Fundação Iberê Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Alvaro Siza” »

sOl Pa toTS says:

There are lots of citations on that building, aren’there? Niemeyer, Le Corbusier, Lina Bo Bardi, Mendes da Rocha…

By the way I love Pedro de Valdivia Norte

DIoniso says:

Siza is always fantastic. He is a genius!

Brilliant.

Riki says:

Any photos of the corridors that goes out of the building???

[...] Fundacion Ibere Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Alvaro SizaThe new building for the Ibere Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil designed by Portugal´s Alvaro Siza, is a big rectangular white concrete structure. It has a big central space enclose by circulations and exhibition spaces. … [...]

Guys,
i’m from Porto Alegre and this building is what all the media and the people are talking about. It’s such an honour to have an Alvaro Siza’s work in our city.

Thanks for posting and commenting about it.

Cheers!

BILL says:

May I ask what does “I love Pedro de Valdivia Norte” means?

Bill,

Pedro de Valdivia is a neighborhood in Santiago, Chile. It has several houses from chilean modernists, and lots of architects live and have their offices there. An architect’s neighborhood…

No idea why it came up on this discussion anyway.

BILL says:

Thanks David about my concern.
I don´t agree completely with sOl Pa toTS about the quotations the architect makes in this building; I would discard Niemeyer, Mendez da Rocha and Le Corbusier.
This is almost like the child of Siza and Lina Bo
It´s a mater piece.

Rodrigo says:

Great to see our city published around the world with this pics and articles about this amazin building, but please we don´t talk spanish, we talk portuguese, so change this title were is write Fundacion Ibere Camargo to the rigth way Fundação Iberê Camargo or just in the mother lenguege of this publication :). Thanks

Nico Saieh says:

Rodrigo,
Sorry about that. It’s fixed

SolPatots says:

I think there might be relations in between the authors I suggested. Not linear, but there are analogies

Le Corbusier… It recalls me Chandigarh with the work on concrete in the ramps from the Ministerial Secretariate, and its openings…

Picture no p1160181-copy,

http://www.flickr.com/photos/siqueiramm/1426993330/in/set-72157602081008572/

Niemeyer recalls me about the use of curved geometry, I guess it reminded me the Copan builiding façade with its curves…

About Mendes da Rocha,I mentioned it, only for this easiness at making severe concrete volumes seem to fly, but I agree with you that there is a weak connection in between, and only as an attitude with structures I guess

The Pedro de Valdivia Norte is a dejà vu, sorry, absolutely nothing to do with the post…

BILL says:

SolPatots
You are absolutely right, that window is an undoubtfull Corbusier’s heritage mole.
I eat my words
On Neimeyer’s … well, sure he does curves.

sOl Pa toTS says:

Bill you’re right it’s too generic to talk about curves, but what about this curves (waves) at the Copan building?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47333265@N00/1249039127/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47333265@N00/1249026835/
or even this one compared with the rooftop gesture
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0fs6fc274M0U8/610x.jpg

I don’t think Siza wouldn’t take advantage at making a building in Brazil without making a gentleman’s gesture to his colleages in Brazil…

[...] Beautiful shots of Alvaro Siza’s Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil. More here. [...]

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