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Genin, Soraya M. (2024). Understanding Malagueira :  a conversation with Álvaro Siza . In Soraya Monteiro Genin, Teresa Cunha Ferreira, MAriana Correia (Ed.), Siza Atlas. Filling the gaps for World Heritage. Lisboa: ISCTE.

S. D. Genin,  "Understanding Malagueira :  a conversation with Álvaro Siza ", in Siza Atlas. Filling the gaps for World Heritage, Soraya Monteiro Genin, Teresa Cunha Ferreira, MAriana Correia, Ed., Lisboa, ISCTE, 2024

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TY  - CHAP
TI  - Understanding Malagueira :  a conversation with Álvaro Siza 
T2  - Siza Atlas. Filling the gaps for World Heritage
AU  - Genin, Soraya M.
PY  - 2024
CY  - Lisboa
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AB  - Soraya M. Genin (SMG) Thank you very
much for having me, my colleague
Pedro Pinto and our students. I
have been promising them this
interview since the beginning of the
school year, and now, after a lot of
research, it’s time to hear from you
and clarify our doubts. This year,
we gave students the challenge
of rehabilitating the Malagueira
Neighbourhood as part of the Final
Architecture Project course and
this book [SizaAtlas. Rehabilitating
Malagueira (1977-2023)] is based
on the work we carried out. It all
started in 2017, when ICOMOS –
Portugal proposed for a number
of your works to be included in the
World Heritage Tentative List and
the prospect of Malagueira being
included in the final application
came up.
Álvaro Siza (AS) Malagueira cannot be
included, what can be included is the
ruins of Malagueira. Who would accept
ruins? It’s doubly ruined, physically
and as a project, because the social
infrastructures were never completed.
Housing without social infrastructures...
there are just a few small shops opened by
the people of the [housing] cooperative.
The Évora City Council asked for projects
and I delivered a project for a parish
centre, which is a fundamental social
component, a project for a nursery school,
but they never provided the funding to
build these infrastructures. Professor
Abílio [Fernandes] did very well while
he was mayor, but there was no funding
for infrastructure. Some funding was
provided for the houses, of which twelve
hundred were completed, if I’m not
mistaken. If memory serves me well, when
I complained about the lack of funding
the cooperatives’ heads said, ‘Don’t worry,
architect, the elections are coming up
and they’ll have money then’. But there
was only money for housing, and it came
in piecemeal; there was never a penny
for social infrastructures. After Abílio’s
term ended [2001], everything has been
falling into disrepair, not even the gardens
survived, there is no maintenance. So,
if you apply for developing Malagueira,
the response will surely be less than
favourable.
SMG It’s not so much in ruins than
marked by urban voids. We surveyed
the unbuilt infrastructures and
the changes to the design of the
buildings, courtyards, facades,
spans and walls. Were the varying
wall heights part of the project? We
identified three: one higher and two
lower.
AS That was during the debate with
the cooperatives, it was part of the plan,
or rather it eventually became part of the
plan. The original [courtyard] walls were
high. Some wanted a high wall, but many
didn’t, we talked and I accepted the low
wall option, which was 1.30 metres, I don’t
remember exactly.
ER  -