MUSEU NADIR AFONSO

This singular work is one of the most outstanding buildings of the last decade in the oeuvre of Álvaro Siza, Pritzker Prize recipien t in 1992. On a high plain by the river in the Roman city of Chaves, deep in the interior of his home country, Siza has built the Na dir Afonso Museum. Blending the modernity of elevation of the ground (and above the rivers flood plain) and a vernacular indented p lan, the building reveals the exceptional mastery of this architect and the very condition of contemporary architecture.