Like father, like son. Alvaro Leite Siza bears the same name as his famous father, and this house in northern Portugal manifests all the qualities of elegant reticence that have come to characterise the Porto maestro's oeuvre. However, when commissioned to build a weekend house on an impossibly sloping site, Siza junior throws reticence to the winds. Not for him some tame finessing of tortuous terrain; instead he makes a virtue out of adversity and the house becomes topography in the most literal sense, a cascade of compact concrete compartments tumbling down a hill linked by vertiginous flights of stairs.
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