On Responsibility of the Choice, Introduction to the Dossier
“The idea would be to publish, in Portuguese and English,
a selection of fundamental texts about Portuguese architecture of recent decades.”
TIM BENTON
“In order to teach, we have to be charismatic, we have to be persuasive, to inspire and that is good and bad.”
Arquitectura Popular em Portugal
“it is possible yet another one, necessarily more time consuming because immersed in reading, which allows us to rediscover architecture as a synthesis of a concrete reality, fruit of the accommodating of the territory by man.”
Chelas Urbanization Plan
“Chelas Urbanization Plan emerges as the largest urbanization plan of the City Council of Lisbon (510ha), in the expansion strategy of the city, following the large-scale planning of Alvalade, Olivais Norte (40ha), and Olivais Sul (186ha).”
Urbanization in Luanda, musseques expansion and the relocation – Dossier
“Since there is lack of housing in the urbanized city, the majority of the less well-off population lives in musseques – self-built, semi-developed or undeveloped neighbourhoods.”
Quarto de despejo: diário de uma favelada, by Carolina Maria de Jesus
“However, it is important to recall that Carolina Maria de Jesus may, once again, be forgotten.”
Voice(s) without a place, place(s) of the voice – Dossier
“Though currently humans concentrate more and more in the city, the word city seems to have multiple meanings and to require an analysis.”
Interview to Isabel Raposo, architect, urban planner, researcher and professor at FAUL – Dossier
” In the last few years of her career as a lecturer, she has promoted the discussion in academia on the Right to the City.”
Thinking the Informal City, Dossier Introduction
“The basis for understanding informal and segregated neighbourhoods is to read cities as territories of diversity.”
CARLOS NOGUEIRA
“Drawing, is much more than a discipline, it is an Universe.”