CROSSED VISIONS: AN ARCHITECTURE LAB BETWEEN GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Reception and interpretation of architecture from the Modernist Movement today involves its physical, conceptual and identity preservation…
UNDERSTANDING NUNO TEOTÓNIO PEREIRA: AN EXISTENTIAL REALITY
Architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira was one of the protagonists of the reflection on the place of architecture and its collective experience in Portugal…
ASK HIM FOR A CROQUIS!
I have a daily relationship with my father that wakes up with me every morning. The house where I live, where I chose to live, is my father’s. It is my father’s because he bought it and because he has shaped it and filled it with images and with life…
CEREMONY IN HONOUR OF ARCHITECT NUNO TEOTÓNIO PEREIRA. HELD BY IHRU 2016
I will not go over my father’s professional achievements but simply recall that he was not only an architect who designed houses, among other buildings, in different decades and places, based on different programs…
NUNO TEOTÓNIO PEREIRA 1950-1970 ARCHITECTURE AS A POLITICAL PRATICE
Citizens’ participation in decisions concerning their living environment is a theme that nowadays opens up a very wide range of meanings related to architecture and the organization of urban space…
PEOPLE, HOUSES AND CITIES: THE TRILOGY OF AN ARCHITECT-CITIZEN
The influence of Nuno Teotónio Pereira in the concept and building criteria of the so-called social housing was decisive…
NUNO TEOTÓNIO PEREIRA, UNPRECEDENTED REALISM IN ARCHITECTURE AND IN LIFE
The contemporariness of his work is evident proof of its timelessness. He was the activist of the Modern against the “national” style and aimed to attain truth in architecture while maintaining its roots…
THE (NON) DIVERSITIES OF BAIXA IN LISBON
This paper discusses how socio-cultural, economic and functional diversity can promote revitalization and safeguard historic centres. As an example, it examines certain characteristics of Baixa’s socio-spatial organization and use in Lisbon, seeking to highlight the potential interest of an intervention that promotes a diversified social, cultural, economic and functional occupation…
AVENIDA ALMIRANTE REIS: URBAN DIAGNOSTICS
Cities are spaces of change and social and space innovation. In the past decades, as a result of internal and external social and economic dynamics, the city of Lisbon…
‟Diffidate da tutto quello che leggete qui” Countryside. The Future.
“Attraverso una serie di storie, casi studio e dati, Koolhaas cerca di sensibilizzare il pubblico su temi importanti per il futuro del pianeta come l’eccessiva urbanizzazione e il riscaldamento globale, mostrando la campagna come unica alternativa.”