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…
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…
The influence of Nuno Teotónio Pereira in the concept and building criteria of the so-called social housing was decisive…
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…
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…
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…
“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.”
“Though currently humans concentrate more and more in the city, the word city seems to have multiple meanings and to require an analysis.”
We discuss the role and potential of civic participation in public and community art projects,
Propõe-se, através deste ensaio, interpretações alternativas ao modelo vigente: a Mancha de Óleo – comummente utilizado na leitura da evolução da Área Metropolitana de Lisboa…
