“The gap between housing needs and individual resources to meet them is at the heart of the housing problem: a gap that covers ever large sections of the population, as it is more pronounced in urban areas subject to strong pressure from demand”
“Each new cultural cycle begins, as a rule, from the Critique of previous achievements and a polemic denial of the principles they justify. The newcomers discover, in general, many virtues in past generations, but very few in the previous one.”
“Just like a huge belt around the city, there is another city where many more people live than all the people in the city – it is the city of the poor and the servants – huge dependence on the city. ”
“To speak, therefore, in an organized space in two and three dimensions, means to take a conventional attitude, useful for certain classifications, but not corresponding to reality.”
“I present my first professional work with the awareness of having given myself to it completely, while I built it on paper, and of continuing to live it today as an experience already accomplished. “
“the important ensemble of the new square, south-side of the main church, is planned and will be built in Pombaline style! The incongruity and absurdity of such a proposition can be felt by any layman”
“The idea would be to publish, in Portuguese and English,
a selection of fundamental texts about Portuguese architecture of recent decades.”
