Hans Döllgast. Reconstruction, permanence and change
RITA AGUIAR RODRIGUES
“Döllgast’s practice was based on a mastery of graphic techniques, of different scales and typologies, from watercolor to construction detail drawing, including typography.”
In this issue of the Estudo Prévio journal – number TWENTY-FOUR – we publish an interview with an architect who is also Design Project professor at the Department of Architecture of the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa: João Favila. We seek, therefore, to contribute to building the memory of an Architecture school that celebrates this year its 25th anniversary.
In this issue we invited the anthropologist and researcher Maria Assunção Gato to coordinate the thematic dossier “Uncertainties about housing and ways of living”, composed by four papers – by Ana Rogojanu, Maria Moreno, Nadezda Pazuhina and Maria Assunção Gato & Filipa Ramalhete – which explore, in different cultural and geographical contexts, how the house, in the contemporary domestic space, answers to uncertainty.
We also publish a paper by Rita Aguiar Rodrigues, who presents and analyzes a selection of Hans Döllgast’s projects, identifying the themes that appear to be eminent and transversal in his work and a paper by João Miranda with an original analysis of the design process of the Francisco & Manuel Aires Mateus “Casa em Alenquer”, based on primary sources.
Finally, this issue includes a review by Tiago Leonardo of the work “água. e a casa é o mundo”, a catalogue of the last exhibition by the sculptor Carlos Nogueira.
“Drawing allows one to control scale, it is very different from Autocad and the computer. Nowadays, I have a healthy relationship with it. It was hard for me to see the first printers firing off drawings, but eventually I accepted that they were more perfect than drawn by hand. Today, I see this process as complementary – 3D and two-dimensional drawing – not least because the computer gives an absolutely unbeatable degree of rigor. Nonetheless, they both complement each other.”
RITA AGUIAR RODRIGUES
“Döllgast’s practice was based on a mastery of graphic techniques, of different scales and typologies, from watercolor to construction detail drawing, including typography.”
JOÃO MIRANDA
“The House presented a ‘unique process’ that has become a crucial and reference point in the career of the Aires Mateus studio. The House ‘remains’ in memory, being a ‘foundational’ research.”
MARIA ASSUNÇÃO GATO
“Urbanisation and the accompanying intensification of economic extraction models, changes in family dynamics and social norms and widespread uncertainties surrounding housing, employment and lifestyle choices are global phenomena, particularly pronounced in several European countries.”
ANA ROGOJANU
“Housing systems around the world encounter a range of challenges, such as housing affordability, changes in household composition and lifestyles, or ecological transformation.”
MARÍA MORENO CARRANCO
“The significance of these stories lies in the potential to construct various versions of the history of how homes and cities were experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.”
NADEŽDA PAZUHINA
“The concept of housing could be helpful to understand the interaction and, at the same time, a fusion of theological and social dimensions in the everyday religious practices.”
MARIA ASSUNÇAO GATO & FILIPA RAMALHETE
“Difficulties in accessing housing are one of the primary challenges faced by young adults during transitional phases in their lives, leading to subsequent instability.”
TIAGO LEONARDO
“It is certainly possible to find crossovers between the two ‘phases’ described (both accentuate the qualities of the formats in which they exist) and to define the role of Carlos Nogueira as a tutelary figure in charge of rewriting and reorganizing a collection that varies.”
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