Siza Vintage

limited edition collector's box

Siza Vintage . + crowdfunding campaign

Siza Vintage is a limited edition collector's box, containing three different, innovative and contemporary views on the work of architect Álvaro Siza Vieira through photography, text and illustration.Each box contains fifteen 20x30cm photos by Rui Pedro Bordalo, fifteen texts by João Forjaz Mendes and one 20x30cm serigraphed illustration by Alex Gozblau
The goal is to reflect on the challenges of contemporary architecture using the lessons learned from using, living and relating to the earlier work of Siza Vieira, while at the same time explaining in layman's terms some ideas on the role of Architecture and it's importance as a social phenomenon in shaping urban imaginaries.
Buildings are not show as perfect, crystallized elements, but rather as something the passage of time has allowed to settle in it's surrounding environment and become appropriated by the people who use it.