Although it is one of the most frequent project work practices, the theme of additions on architectural and urban pre-existences has not been the subject of many focused and systematized reflections…
Almost ten years have passed since I read and studied, for the first time, “Autobiografia Científica” by architect Aldo Rossi (1931-1997), a book published thirty-five years ago by MIT…
In the beginning of his academic career Edward Soja (1940-2015), an American geographer, focused on African Studies, though he had already been a critic of urban and regional planning…
The book “City and Port: Transformation of Port Cities – London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam”, by Han Meyer, was published in 1999…
Published by Lisbon City Hall (CML), the book Evolução das formas de habitação plurifamiliar na cidade de Lisboa (Changes in multi-family housing in the city of Lisbon), by Nuno Teotónio Pereira…
The Livro de Lisboa offers us a star-shaped city, with many points from a historical, social and artistic perspective, and also one with long drawn political borders…
“A internacionalização de Lisboa: paradiplomacia de uma cidade” is a book produced within a research project developed by the research centre OBSERVARE entitled Cidades e Regiões: a paradiplomacia em Portugal (Cities and Regions: paradiplomacy in Portugal)
“the author emphasizes the importance of the sensory dimension, and believes the human senses are essential elements to perception and to fully understand spaces.”
“Now, as far as teaching of architecture is concerned, I think that first we must break free from that annoying feeling of guilt.”
“it can be said that the bulk of qualified production has shown a demand for constructive realism, a practical meaning in the resolution of programs or in the concrete viability of singular or genuine projects within the European framework.”
