THE ÁLVARO SIZA WING

The Álvaro Siza Wing is a building that is fully integrated into the landscape of Serralves Park, which does not impose itself, which is not intended to be an imposing architectural gesture, but rather an expression of natural growth, like a new branch growing from a tree.

It reflects two forms of collecting: on the one hand, it makes Serralves the place with perhaps the most important collection of buildings by the architect Álvaro Siza, underlining that the institution's mission, in terms of architecture, also a question of actual construction and not just mere curation; on the other hand, if the building is part of a "built collection", it will also house collections of works of art: the Serralves Collection, the CACE Collection, the BPP Collection, the collections on deposit (FLAD, Leal Rios, among many others), which comprise more than 4. 500 works of art, and architectural archives, such as those of the architect Álvaro Siza.

Thus, in this new building, exhibitions dedicated to the Serralves Collection - which will thus be permanently on display in a more dynamic way - and to Architecture, one of the strategic axis of Serralves’ mission - will be presented.