In the history of architecture, for a building te be some three or four decades in the making is not an unusual eccurrence. The Beuça Residents Association Housing in Porto by Alvaro Siza lin asseciatien with Antónie Madureira) spans 33 years from start to finish. The reasons br the delay are numerous. ln the 1970s, Alvaro Siza vvas known in Portugal and admired by a few Spanish and ltalian colleagues. By the 1990s, Siza's international reputation was unquestioned. After a long period without a commission in Porto itself, Siza's authority in Porto was restored with the completion of the Faculty of Architecture of Porto Universlty in 1985 and the Fundaçáo Serralves o 1999. The awarding of the Pritzker Prize in 1992, the construction of the Portuguese Pavilion at Lishon's EXPO 1998, the steady resto ratio of the cenflagrated Chiado district (19881 in Lishon throughout the lODOs, ah served to raise his natienal stature. Thus even the municipal authorities could no longer ignore the embarrass- ment that was the fragmented and run-dewn first phase of the Eouça Housing scheme, especially at the time nf Portes role as Eurepean Cultural Capital 2001
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