03 ALX
ALEIXO OFFICE BUILDING
ÁLVARO SIZA
ALX is dedicated to the Aleixo Office Building in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira and built between 1993 and 1997. The building emerged from an initiative by a group of friends who acquired a plot of land and organized an informal competition to design the place where they would all work. Siza’s proposal was selected, resulting in a restrained and pragmatic architecture that has since housed the studios of Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Rogério Cavaca and the engineering office GOP, and was also a workplace of Fernando Távora.
Photographed entirely in black and white, ALX departs from the traditional architectural monograph. Through photographs, texts and fragments of project material, the book observes the building as an infrastructure for work, collaboration and thought - an architecture shaped by time and use.
128 pages
72 photographs
Design Report by Álvaro Siza
Original Technical Drawings
150g matte paper
Texts by:
Álvaro Siza, António Choupina, Nuno Grande and Pedro Cardigo
Edited and photographed by:
Pedro Cardigo
Soft Cover
Smyth Sew Binding
20×28cm
ISBN 978-989-33-9621-6
PVP 40.00€
The arch+ is an editorial collection of photographic essays about built architecture.
Each volume in the collection focuses on a specific project, seen not as an isolated object but as an inhabited place, shaped by time, use, and experience. Photography is used as a tool of interpretation, favoring immersive and an author view of architecture.
This collection distances itself from technical monographs and exhaustive documentary records. The books in the series propose a sensitive reading of architecture, exploring the relationship between space, materiality, light, and human presence through a carefully constructed visual narrative.
The collection positions itself as a field of photographic investigation dedicated to architecture as built and lived reality, maintaining a consistent formal identity across its volumes.
