The renowned Pritzker Prize winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has signed a public deed formalising the donation of part of his archive to Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, in Porto, Portugal. The donated archive consists of 40 projects including sketches, plans, drawings and scale models of some of his most significant projects (see list below). The donation forms part of a collaboration between Serralves, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (in Lisbon, Portugal) and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA, in Montreal, Canada) the three institutions designated by Alvaro Siza to receive his archive, a privileged testimony of his work that spans more than six decades. The three institutions were considered by the architect to be the most appropriate for the management and conservation of his archive, and
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