Designed by architects committed to the city, buildings, streets and blocks will be renovated and their lives reinvented. The surface of the roofs that will serve as a cocoon for these metamorphoses already announce an orientation: we will talk about books, we will give shelter to books, we will exchange books.

‘On each front of the building site, each taipal will illustrate a set of literary references from the author of each architectural project, his bedside books.’

On each front of the building site, each taipal will illustrate a set of literary references from the author of each architectural project, his bedside books.

Thus, each one will represent a particular relationship with books, revealing individual poetic, literary and philosophical universes, and allowing us to speculate on the articulations between drawing and writing, lines and phrases, shapes and ideas.

Half light, the light of dusk and dawn, refers here to the faint ambient light emanating from the reading lamps and simultaneously to the ephemeral condition of the work, its latent state of transformation.  

In this case, we're looking at the bedside books of architect Álvaro Siza, whose intimate readings and literary influences intertwine with his architectural practice, enriching and broadening our understanding of the city and his own work.

Neste caso, abordamos os livros de cabeceira do arquiteto Álvaro Siza, cujas leituras íntimas e influências literárias se entrelaçam com a sua prática arquitetónica, enriquecendo e ampliando a compreensão da cidade e da sua própria obra.