IN THE CLOUDS – VISUAL ESSAY
Como se vindos de um lugar desconhecido, começássemos a caminhar do alto da montanha na direção do mar. Imersos num oceano de nuvens, humidade densa, penetramos no labirinto verde, de ramagens antigas, troncos seculares…
LAND AND URBAN MANAGEMENT OF MADEIRA ISLAND: THE RELEVANCE OF FUNCHAL IN THIS PROCESS
O artigo aborda as transformações territoriais decorrentes de tentativas de ordenamento e da consequente urbanização do território da ilha da Madeira verificadas desde o povoamento do arquipélago…
JUNFU WON – FOSTERING COMMUNAL IDENTITIES: COMMUNITARIAN ARTISTIC PROJECTS IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES OF PREMODERN CHINA
China regional communities have a long history of fostering social interactions through artistic practices. During the fifth and sixth centuries, individuals in local communities…
NUALA NÍ FHLATHÚIN – VISUALIZING A MINORITY LANGUAGE COMMUNITY
Recent work by scholars of Irish Studies has established the significance of images of the West of Ireland in the fields of visual arts and literature. However, the discourse surrounding these arguments…
AYSE GUNGOR – COLLABORATION AND VISIBILITY: CHANGING RELATIONS BETWEEN SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART, ANTHROPOLOGY AND URBAN SPHERE IN TURKEY
After the 1990s, the number of art fairs, events and biennials in Turkey has not only increased but also the involvement of art world institutions in the art scene has transformed the practices of contemporary artists…
PAULO MOREIRA – COLONIAL MODERN. AESTHETICS OF THE PAST – REBELLIONS FOR THE FUTURE
The highlight of the publication is the large-scale housing development Cité d’Habitacion of Carrières Centrales, built in 1952 to relocate the migrant population…
FRANCESCA DE LUCA + HELENA ELIAS – ART AND COMMUNITY: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES (DOSSIER INTRODUCTION)
This special issue of the journal Estudo Prévio is the result of presentations, ideas and exchanges that took place during the 2018 conference “Art, Materiality and Representation”…
VALENTINA BONIFACIO – FROM FAMILY TO COMMUNITY ALBUMPORTRAY OF PARAGUAYAN COMPANY TOWN
Puerto Casado is a small ex-company town of about 7.000 people located on the Western edge of the Paraguay River. As if emerging from a fantasy tale, its tannin factory has been functioning for exactly one hundred years…
TO BUILD A SCHOOL. DA/UAL
Reviewing a book with interviews is not easy. Architecture is portrayed in the book as a stage whose major player is the Architecture Department at Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa…
AIRCRAFT BY LE CORBUSIER
This review aims to analyze Aircraft, a book Le Corbusier published in1935, the same 1 year as La Ville Radieuse…