THE FRAMED WINDOW
Text and illustration in tribute to Nuno Teotónio Pereira, by his wife, Irene Buarque
The Double Condition of a Place: Memory and Future
ROSÁRIO SALEMA
“Over time, various ways of inhabiting the public space are inscribed in the city, like layers of the city’s history that overlap in a palimpsest. The floor inscribes the history of the collective in the city. “
Inhabiting Public Space – Dossier Introduction
BÁRBARA SILVA
“Public space, as the place for human action and interaction, builds a network of collective meanings, in what concerns experiencing and understanding of the city.”
Where light casts no shadow. One wall, one window, five spaces
MARCO SANTINI
“The following thesis investigates the shadow as an element defining space and time in architecture. Darkness does not necessarily mean that a place is not visible but just less visible. By its very nature, the shadow gives a lack of definition to space.”
Water, infrastructure and public space in Lisbon. The reservatório de Campo de Ourique as a case study
THEA CUK
“Using the example of the city of Lisbon, which was supplied by an aqueduct for almost two centuries from the 18th century onwards, it will be examined how such a large infrastructure produced public spaces that are still very present in the cityscape today.”
POWERPOINT: a graphic and audiovisual record of Portuguese dams
EDUARDO CORALES
“This inventory aims to graphically expose the elements that started an electric landscape and that can help to understand the complexities, conflicts and the future of these infrastructures, as well as the development of the territory and its changes.”
GONÇALO BYRNE
“Because citizenship, is very important in the question of rights and duties, and of participation. Citizenship means living in a shared space. And that is where architecture comes in. And it does not come in alone, there are more people involved, landscapers, engineers…”
From the figurative to the tectonic: Peter Wilson and the drawing process in the Clandeboye project
LUIZ GILBERTO SILVA JUNIOR
“Clandeboye’s drawings graphically illustrate the invention, confidence and constructive empiricism characteristic of the architectural thought that Wilson was developing back then, and had a significant impact on the professional lives of his students.”
Flashback / Carrilho da Graça. A network of interlocked lines.
MARIA PIA FONTANA e MIGUEL MAYORGA
“However, for him what matters most is to ask himself something else: “Why these and not others?” Each beginning corresponds to an archetype of a “possible” novel, because it contains themes and variations.”
CONVERSATIONS WITH FORM: A WORKBOOK FOR STUDENTS, BY N. JOHN HABRAKEN
Dutchman N. John Habraken, award-winning Puerto Rican Andres Mignucci and American Jonathan Teicher are the authors of Conversations with form: a workbook for students of architecture…