Architectural photographer [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] has sent us a selection of his photographs documenting the work of Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza, who was awarded the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] in February.

Above: Sport Facilities ‘Ribera-Serrallo’
Malagamba describes his experience of photographing Siza’s architecture over the past 18 years in this text written for Dezeen:
I fell in love with the architecture of Alvaro Siza once and
forever on a sunny summer day of 1984 when I arrived from Italy - with
the car that my parents generously lent me - to a ramshackle sea front
of the Oporto outskirts.

Above: Sport Facilities ‘Ribera-Serrallo’
Without searching it (being a 3rd year architecture student my
information was quite poor and I was just looking for the Boa Nova
Restaurant), I found the most beautiful swimming pool I had ever seen
in my life.

Above: Sport Facilities ‘Ribera-Serrallo’
Fulfilled with cheerful children and blurred by the oceans’
waves, the swimming pool in Leça da Palmeira seemed to me a sublime
song to Architecture with capital letter: something capable to make
homely – and even improve – the Nature.

Above: Santa Maria Church
When, after a few years working as an architect, I decided to
devote myself to architectural photography, my interest on Siza
production became even stronger and I began to portrait regularly his
work.

Above: Santa Maria Church
Meeting him was another highlight in my life as, since then, I
got fascinated not only by his work but also by his extraordinary and
generous personality.

Above: Santa Maria Church
In the past 18 years I have done my best to freeze the range of
sensations that I experienced spending days in the buildings Alvaro
Siza designed and I would consider myself satisfied if I have been able
to transmit a quantum of the solace I tasted there.

Above: Santa Maria Church
Congratulating the 2009 Gold Medalist for this well deserved new
recognition, I look forward to portraiting his next masterpieces.

Above: Ibere Camargo Foundation

Above: Ibere Camargo Foundation

Above: Ibere Camargo Foundation

Above: Ibere Camargo Foundation

Above: Ibere Camargo Foundation

Above: E.S.E. Setubal

Above: E.S.E. Setubal

Above: E.S.E. Setubal

Above: E.S.E. Setubal

Above: E.S.E. Setubal

Above: Mayor Wine Cellar

Above: Mayor Wine Cellar

Above: Mayor Wine Cellar

Above: Mayor Wine Cellar

Above: Multipurpose Pavilion Gondomar

Above: Multipurpose Pavilion Gondomar

Above: Aveiro University Library

Above: Aveiro University Library

Above: Aveiro University Library

Above: Faculty of Architecture, Porto

Above: Faculty of Architecture, Porto

Above: Faculty of Communication Studies

Above: Faculty of Communication Studies

Above: Galician Centre for Contemporary Arts

Above: Galician Centre for Contemporary Arts

Above: Galician Centre for Contemporary Arts

Above: Parish Centre, Marco de Canaveses

Above: Parish Centre, Marco de Canaveses

Above: Parish Centre, Marco de Canaveses

Above: Portuguese Pavilion Expo 2000

Above: Portuguese Pavilion Expo 2000

Above: Public Library Viana do Castelo

Above: Public Library Viana do Castelo

Above: Public Library Viana do Castelo

Above: SAAL Bouça Housing

Above: SAAL Bouça Housing

Above: Santo Ovidio State

Above: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005

Above: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005

Above: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2005

Above: Serralves Foundation

Above: Serralves Foundation

Above: Serralves Foundation

Above: Serralves Foundation

Above: Summer House in Sintra

Above: Summer House in Sintra

Above: Summer House in Sintra

Above: Summer House in Sintra

Swimming pool Leça da Palmeira

Above: Vieira de Castro House

Above: Vieira de Castro House

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Posted by Rose Etherington from dezeen.com