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…
POLITICS AND ARCHITECTURE IN TURKEY (1923 – 1960)
To objectively evaluate the manifestation of any kind of architecture in history, the necessity to consider context (as in politics, economy, and geography) is nowadays beyond question…
LISBOA ESBOÇO GEOGRÁFICO by RAQUEL SOEIRO DE BRITO
O livro A internacionalização de Lisboa: paradiplomacia de uma cidade, agora publicado, resulta de um projeto de investigação desenvolvido pelo OBSERVARE, intitulado Cidades e Regiões: a paradiplomacia em Portugal…
AGRICOLTURA URBANA A LISBONA: UNA LETTURA STORICA E UNA PROSPETTIVA FUTURA
Il presente articolo intende ripercorrere come la compenetrazione tra spazio urbano e rurale abbia storicamente caratterizzato la città di Lisbona…
NOVA OEIRAS – THE PLAN FOR THE RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD
The so-called “Plano de Urbanização da Unidade Residencial de Nova Oeiras”, (Urban Plan for the Nova Oeiras Residential Unit)…
SULLE ORME DI OSCAR
La presente analisi è condotta a partire da una fotografia che ritrae Oscar Niemeyer, architetto di fama mondiale…