Review of Ailton Krenak’s book “Futuro Ancestral”
DELIA SLONEANU
“Presenting the book “Futuro Ancestral” is not a simple task because it requires translating knowledge from an indigenous worldview into another form. “
Begin Again. Fail Better
JOÃO MIRANDA
“The publication, in addition to encouraging a slow and attentive mode of reading, places drawing at the centre of architectural reflection.”
In continuum: Interview with Jeremy Till
JEREMY TILL
“But architects are their own worst enemy in these culture wars. Because they too are addicted to those forms of value, the value of the aesthetic, the value of the new, the value of the so-called innovative. “
In continuum: Interview with João Nunes
JOÃO NUNES
“Perhaps if we replaced the obsession with the author with a collective idea of production, it would not be a bad idea.”
In continuum: Interview with Fernando Viegas
FERNANDO VIEGAS
“Building requires a lot of energy and changes in matter. It requires reasoning from time cycles.”
In continuum: Interview with Ricardo Carvalho
RICARDO CARVALHO
“For a few years, less than ten, I believe, half of the planet’s population was urban, so its analysis is both quantitative and on meaning. “
In continuum: Interview with Tom Emerson
TOM EMERSON
“I think that the big paradigm shift is that we need to be really much more focused around the notion of the existing and how that can be reinvented and given a proper future, and that’s different, that’s a kind of a next stage in industrialisation.”
Discontinuous itinerary. Visual essay from five interviews
DUARTE BELO
“As if I were on the ground, climbing a mountain. I reach the top and observe the landscape. I then define my way down. This way, I walk through the entire history of human settlement.”
In continuum: five interviews and one visual essay on the theory and practice of contemporary architecture. Introduction to the dossier
INÊS LOBO | RITA AGUIAR RODRIGUES
“If architecture can be understood as a discipline that operates on time, perhaps the contemporary challenge does not lie in choosing between transformation and continuity, but in coming to understand them once again as inseparable parts of the same process.”