Álvaro Siza and Sahel Al-Hiyari

Rolex Mentor and Protégé in Architecture, 2002 - 2003

For Álvaro Siza, Portugal’s master architect, his profession is not about copying designs of the past. His protégé, Sahel Al-Hiyari, says “with Siza … it’s much deeper than that.” Al-Hiyari explains that “architecture is synonymous with human existence. It’s one’s second skin.”