THE FRAMED WINDOW
Text and illustration in tribute to Nuno Teotónio Pereira, by his wife, Irene Buarque
Text and illustration in tribute to Nuno Teotónio Pereira, by his wife, Irene Buarque
Architect Nuno Teotónio Pereira was one of the protagonists of the reflection on the place of architecture and its collective experience in Portugal…
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…
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…