Hans Döllgast. Reconstruction, permanence and change
RITA AGUIAR RODRIGUES
“Döllgast’s practice was based on a mastery of graphic techniques, of different scales and typologies, from watercolor to construction detail drawing, including typography.”
Aires Mateus. The House in Alenquer as a Process
JOÃO MIRANDA
“The House presented a ‘unique process’ that has become a crucial and reference point in the career of the Aires Mateus studio. The House ‘remains’ in memory, being a ‘foundational’ research.”
When architects stopped wearing neckties. Towards the informal. Lino Gaspar House, Caxias, Portugal (1953-1955)
RICARDO ABOIM INGLEZ
“Designed and built at a time when Portugal was partly rejecting the modernity experienced in Europe and North-America, Lino Gaspar House represents the rare encounter between two parties, clients and architect”
The Legacy of Jones Odriozola: Quito’s Regulatory Plan. 1942- 1945.
ANDREA SALAZAR VELOZ e ALEJANDRO BECERRA MARTÍNEZ
“This plan sought to regulate the growth of the city of Quito through a proposal for a more efficient and equitable spatial organization emphasizing three fundamental axes: housing, work and leisure.”
For a historiography of displacements: Analysing the nineteenth century in Europe and America
KAROLYNA DE PAULA KOPPKE
“This work intends to consider displacements between geographical borders as an axis for writing a history of art and architecture in Europe and America.”
‘To Connect two Hemispheres’. The mechanisms of critical mediation in transatlantic culture.
RUTE FIGUEIREDO
“The articles that this dossier brings together represent, therefore, two attempts at rethinking criticism as transcultural action.”
Reception and Commentary on Brazilian Modern Architectural Culture in Portugal. A Brief Analysis from Two Periodicals on Architecture.
PEDRO CASTELO
“we intend to review the content of these relations between Portugal and Brazil in the field of architecture, and on the other establish a critical framework of how this relationship came to be understood within historical mythologies affected by phenomena of post-colonial collective psychology.”
JEAN-LOUIS COHEN
“I am a storyteller. For me, every exhibition has a story and tells another story. In order to write the story and put it on the walls, I need to explain it and share it in a classroom or at a dinner table. “
THE TIMELESS AND VALIDITY CONCEPT OF THE SUBURBS
What type of landscape would we draw if we were invited to draw the suburbs? Which people, houses, streets would be part of that drawing…? How would they be placed in space? How far would they be…
DESIGNING PUBLIC SPACE IN REBUILDING THE CITY WITHOUT A PLAN
The issue or problem that is addressed in this paper relates mainly with recognizing the importance of public space in (re) building the contemporary city “without form” that, in general, is associated with urban peripheries…