In this issue – TWENTY-EIGHT – of the journal Estudo Prévio, we once again publish interviews with international architects whose works and worldviews are of particular interest. We open this issue with a conversation with the renowned British architect Tony Fretton (b. 1945) and a visual essay by João Miranda, “To build a New E(vo)ra” — City, Process and Drawing by Álvaro Siza [Notebook 3/77], an analysis of primary sources drawn from Álvaro Siza’s notebooks — part of the Drawing Matter collection.
In the dossier In Continuum: five interviews and one visual essay on the thought and practice of contemporary architecture, Tom Emerson, Ricardo Carvalho, Fernando Viegas, João Nunes and Jeremy Till take up the challenge of debating — individually, yet forming a collective theoretical body — the role of architecture in the contemporary city, addressing themes such as the urban/natural relationship, the right to the city, public space and housing. These reflections are complemented by a visual essay by Duarte Belo.
We also publish a research article by Thais Anastácio Pestana, Between geology and the Atlantic: the Câmara de Lobos Salinas Complex Project. Architecture, Landscape and Regeneration on the south coast of the island of Madeira, and one by Alexandra Casimiro, The Incomplete Forum. The Lisbon Palace of Justice by Januário Godinho and João Andresen. Finally, we conclude the issue with reviews of two works: Begin Again. Fail Better, the book published to coincide with the exhibition “Begin Again. Fail Better – Preliminary Drawings in Architecture (and Art)”, on display at the Kunstmuseum Olten in Olten, Switzerland, between 1 June 2024 and 25 August 2024 (by João Miranda), and Futuro Ancestral, by Ailton Krenak (by Delia Sloneanu). We therefore have a very rich and diverse issue in store, which we hope will provide some excellent summer readings!
“I once believed that if I created architecture that spoke to people, they would naturally understand it. But they do not and that realisation has been revealing for me. “
JOÃO MIRANDA
“Through drawing, writing, and observation, Siza seeks to understand the specific conditions of the territory, transforming direct experience into a conceptual structure capable of guiding the development of the project”
THAIS ANASTÁCIO
“On the cliffs of Madeira Island, the landscape imposes a rare type of attention: Resilience. This is the case of the Salinas Swimming Pools in Câmara dos Lobos, inaugurated in 2006.”
ALEXANDRA CASIMIRO
“This research presents an analysis of the Palácio da Justiça project (1970) in Lisbon, from the scale of the city to the scale of the doorknob, in reference to the expression “from the Spoon to the City.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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. “
FERNANDO VIEGAS
“Building requires a lot of energy and changes in matter. It requires reasoning from time cycles.”
JOÃO NUNES
“Perhaps if we replaced the obsession with the author with a collective idea of production, it would not be a bad idea.”
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. “
JOÃO MIRANDA
“The publication, in addition to encouraging a slow and attentive mode of reading, places drawing at the centre of architectural reflection.”
DELIA SLONEANU
“Presenting the book “Futuro Ancestral” is not a simple task because it requires translating knowledge from an indigenous worldview into another form. “
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