The political and economic scenario of the new millennium involved a critical discourse on architecture. After the affluent 1990s, a time when the European project became more consolidated, came a time of instability…
The word “roça” originally means “cut scrub”, “cut vegetation to create a clearing” or “field whose scrub was cut”. However, there is no clear explanation as to why this term was chosen to name the fields of São Tomé and Príncipe…
Architecture in Angola and Mozambique in the 1950s and 1960s may be interpreted in terms of the dissemination and reception of the Modernist architectural models…
Reception and interpretation of architecture from the Modernist Movement today involves its physical, conceptual and identity preservation…
The book “City and Port: Transformation of Port Cities – London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam”, by Han Meyer, was published in 1999…
Published by Lisbon City Hall (CML), the book Evolução das formas de habitação plurifamiliar na cidade de Lisboa (Changes in multi-family housing in the city of Lisbon), by Nuno Teotónio Pereira…
Architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira was one of the protagonists of the reflection on the place of architecture and its collective experience in Portugal…
I have a daily relationship with my father that wakes up with me every morning. The house where I live, where I chose to live, is my father’s. It is my father’s because he bought it and because he has shaped it and filled it with images and with life…
I will not go over my father’s professional achievements but simply recall that he was not only an architect who designed houses, among other buildings, in different decades and places, based on different programs…
Citizens’ participation in decisions concerning their living environment is a theme that nowadays opens up a very wide range of meanings related to architecture and the organization of urban space…
