This home and studio space, ‘the work of my life’ according to Ãlvaro Leite Siza, took 12 years to complete, assembling the site, designing the house, and then building it. The home’s size is almost statuesque with its lines and angles.
“To do architecture it’ is necessary to have a client, a promoter. When I realized, in a certain moment of my career that to continue my path I would need to occupy that role too, I didn’t hesitate. I conciliated objectives, interests, goals, I pursued an ideal and I achieved a dream.
I also had the need to be, in this work, supervisor, coordinator and project director.â€
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