MORE SEA: Eduardo Anahory’s floating-beach-pool
VICTOR BEIRAMAR DINIZ
“Anahory’s universe thus represents a transatlantic meeting between modern perspectives that departs from Brazil Builds to arrive at the Verdes Anos.”
Culture in ecology – a revolutionary tradition
MARIA MATOS SILVA & ANA BEJA DA COSTA
“Over time, our relationship with the natural systems we are part of has changed. Individual and community experiences and memories have created collective memories, shaping different cultures, different ways of being and acting in the world in which we live.”
City and Democracy: Reflecting on the Constitution, laws and institutions over the last 50 years
PEDRO TROVÃO DO ROSÁRIO
“I have demonstrated that democratic means have evolved, alongside the expansion of decentralization, which in itself brings political power closer to citizens but without affirming the “city” as a public entity, or a territorial legal person. “
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.”
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…
OPTIMIST SUBURBIA
This article aims to be an introduction to research on contemporary territory, which is seen by many as a collection of fragments connected to a decaying center…
CRITICAL STATE
Urban intervention actions destined to reposition cities’ centrality cannot focus only on rehabilitation and revitalization of historic centres …
SUBURBANISM
Talking about the suburb from the point of view of its production, reproduction and consumption implies looking at its meaning in terms of representation.