In continuum: Interview with Fernando Viegas
FERNANDO VIEGAS
“Building requires a lot of energy and changes in matter. It requires reasoning from time cycles.”
In continuum: Interview with Ricardo Carvalho
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. “
In continuum: Interview with Tom Emerson
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.”
Discontinuous itinerary. Visual essay from five interviews
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.”
In continuum: five interviews and one visual essay on the theory and practice of contemporary architecture. Introduction to the dossier
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.”
“The incomplete forum”. Palácio da Justiça in Lisbon by Januário Godinho and João Andresen
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.”
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
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.”
To build a new E(vo)ra — City, Process and Drawing by Álvaro Siza [Sketchbook 3/77]
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”
Interview with Tony Fretton
“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.”
Joaquim Machado de Castro, Analytical Description of the Execution of the Equestrian Statue Erected in Lisbon to the Glory of His Most Faithful Majesty King Joseph I
MADALENA MIRA
“The Analytical Description of the Execution of the Equestrian Statue, published by Joaquim Machado dVVe Castro in 1810, is a rare and highly significant document within both Portuguese and European artistic contexts.”