ALX

ALX is dedicated to the Aleixo Office Building in Porto, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira and built between 1993 and 1997. The building emerged from an initiative by a group of friends who acquired a plot of land and organized an informal competition to design the place where they would all work. Siza's proposal was selected, resulting in a restrained and pragmatic architecture that has since housed the studios of Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Rogério Cavaca and the engineering office GOP, and was also a workplace of Fernando Távora.

Photographed entirely in black and white, ALX departs from the traditional architectural monograph. Through photographs, texts and fragments of project material, the book observes the building as an infrastructure for work, collaboration and thought — an architecture shaped by time and use.