AEAULP, the Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa, has been a publisher since its inception in 2010. Specializing in architectural and urbanism research and education, AEAULP has been dedicated to disseminating knowledge through the publication of various materials, including conferences’ proceedings, didactic materials, student works, exhibitions, and scientific reports. AEAULP remains committed to upholding its mission of promoting excellence in architectural and urbanism research and education while fostering cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration. With each publication, AEAULP reaffirms its dedication to advancing knowledge and innovation in these fields.
Title:
Author: Conceição Trigueiros, Caio Frederico e Silva, Ljiljana Čavić
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: V Seminário Internacional AEAULP
Date: 06-08 december 2023 em Brasília, Brasil
Synopses:
“In times of greater turbulence and uncertainty in contemporary societies such as the one we live in, a first question plagues our thinking: What does it mean to be human in times like these? Faced with this uncertainty, one of our first impulses is to look to history for support for events.
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
Title:
Author: Conceição Trigueiros, Caio Frederico e Silva, Ljiljana Čavić
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: V Seminário Internacional AEAULP
Date: 06-08 december 2023 em Brasília, Brasil
Synopses:
“In times of greater turbulence and uncertainty in contemporary societies such as the one we live in, a first question plagues our thinking: What does it mean to be human in times like these? Faced with this uncertainty, one of our first impulses is to look to history for support for events.
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
Title:
Author: Conceição Trigueiros, Caio Frederico e Silva, Ljiljana Čavić
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: V Seminário Internacional AEAULP
Date: 06-08 december 2023 em Brasília, Brasil
Synopses:
“In times of greater turbulence and uncertainty in contemporary societies such as the one we live in, a first question plagues our thinking: What does it mean to be human in times like these? Faced with this uncertainty, one of our first impulses is to look to history for support for events.
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
Title:
Author: Conceição Trigueiros, Caio Frederico e Silva, Ljiljana Čavić
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: V Seminário Internacional AEAULP
Date: 06-08 december 2023 em Brasília, Brasil
Synopses:
“In times of greater turbulence and uncertainty in contemporary societies such as the one we live in, a first question plagues our thinking: What does it mean to be human in times like these? Faced with this uncertainty, one of our first impulses is to look to history for support for events.
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
We try to draw close links between the past and the present in order to understand how we can persevere in the future, in order to understand what life means in times of crisis. In contemporary society, the flow of information can be used to control society or as a tool to unify the individual with the plural. It is not only up to academic society, but also to create operative links and scrutinize information, so that the individual is aware of their real past, has a perfect understanding of their present and is able to exercise control over their future. It is within this framework that the 5th AEAULP International Seminar – Proximidades Distantes is based.”
Title:
Author: Alessia Allegri, Caterina Anastasia e Pedro Bento
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: SIIU 2023 – XV Seminário Internarional de Investigacíon en Urbanismo
Date: June 14-15, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal and September 04-06, 2023 in Recife, Brazil
Title:
Author: Alessia Allegri, Caterina Anastasia e Pedro Bento
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: SIIU 2023 – XV Seminário Internarional de Investigacíon en Urbanismo
Date: June 14-15, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal and September 04-06, 2023 in Recife, Brazil
Title:
Author: Alessia Allegri, Francesca Dal Cin, Luís Miguel Ginja e Sérgio Barreiros Proença
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: CityStrets5 The time of streets: incisions, overlaps and rhythms
Date: October 12-14, 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“The fifth edition of the City Street International Conference follows in the footsteps of the previous editions organized in Beirut by the Ramez G. Chagoury Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Design at Notre Dame University-Louaize, and in Ljubljana, virtually, by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana along with the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.
This time in Lisbon, City Street 5 was organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, with the support of the CIAUD (Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design) and the AEAULP (Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Schools of Portuguese Language); and was hosted at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Hosting the venue in one of the most significative examples of Portuguese modern post-war architecture, at the intersection and overlap of streets from different times, was a conscient choice to frame the debate on the time of streets in the most adequate setting.
Two keynotes framed the works of the conference: the opening of the first day counted with “Lisboa” by João Luís Carrilho da Graça, introducing the hosting city from a personal perspective of one of the most significant architects with a recognized body of works in the Portuguese capital; and the last day closed with “Streets: agents of the Transition” by Paola Viganò, sharing a knowledgeable insight on the role of streets in the evolution and transformation of the urban organism, formed by the vast academical and professional experience in urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe. The conference works counted with a roundtable with the moderation of Nuno Mateus which gathered a diversified panel of speakers: architect-artist-illustrator Ana Aragão, landscape architect João Nunes, economist-urbanist-geographer João Seixas and architect Lucinda Correia, who discussed about the “rhythms” of streets.
The second day of the conference counted with the Lisbon walking workshops that certainly will be kept in the memory of all participants [“WALK 1 - walking along tram 28 tracks”, accompanied by Jorge Mealha; “WALK 2 - walking and drawing”, accompanied by Pedro Janeiro; and “WALK 3, walking the hills and valleys”, accompanied by Carlos Dias Coelho] with the previous introductory talk on the “Names and Form of Lisbon streets” by Sérgio Barreiros Proença.
The street, as a public space, defines both common and exceptional elements of the city’s urban layout. The various declinations of forms, names and meanings of streets reflect different geographies and cultures that nevertheless share common characteristics.
Street, in Portuguese, is translated with the word rua. According to the first dictionary of the Portuguese language (Bluteau, 1712-1728), rua derives from the Greek ruo with the same meaning as the Latin flŭo: a stream of water “because through the streets runs the rainwater, that falls from the roofs (…) also the people run the streets, and each one of them is a stream of people (...).” Bluteau finally refers that some etymologists state that the word rua has the same Latin root as the word ruga, which means wrinkle: “a line, or a groove, caused by the time”. Rua therefore congregates the notions of motion and line, in a single word.
Recognising the street as a line produced by the effects of time on the skin of the city, as a wrinkle testify the passage of years, frames City Street 5– The Time of Streets: Incisions, overlaps and rhythms. Streets are the physical repository of the polis memory, an urban object in transformation over time, resulting from social and political evolutions that shape the form of the city, the urbs. Reading the incisions and the overlaps of time in the urban fabric, allows us to decode the polis eventum, which have contributed to form the present stratum urbanum. Understanding the cycles and rhythms that sculpt the wrinkles of the city, remains essential to imagine and design the future of streets.
Under this common theme, City Street 5 welcomed proposals from different contexts, methodological approaches, and disciplinary fields, that relate to the timeless importance of streets on the construction of the city as a framework for human life. From more than one hundred and twenty submissions, a selection of 60 papers, from authors of 23 different countries participated in the conference, distributed by the six tracks that also structure this book of proceedings: Track 1, STREET REPRESENTATION: theories and practices; Track 2 STREET MOBILITY: current and future trends; Track 3 ON STREETS: research tools and methodologies; Track 4 THE LIFE OF STREET: collective memories and multiple rhythms; Track 5 STREET ADAPTATION: urban transformations and (a)temporal needs; Track 6 THE FORM OF STREETS: interpreting and designing.”
This time in Lisbon, City Street 5 was organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, with the support of the CIAUD (Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design) and the AEAULP (Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Schools of Portuguese Language); and was hosted at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Hosting the venue in one of the most significative examples of Portuguese modern post-war architecture, at the intersection and overlap of streets from different times, was a conscient choice to frame the debate on the time of streets in the most adequate setting.
Two keynotes framed the works of the conference: the opening of the first day counted with “Lisboa” by João Luís Carrilho da Graça, introducing the hosting city from a personal perspective of one of the most significant architects with a recognized body of works in the Portuguese capital; and the last day closed with “Streets: agents of the Transition” by Paola Viganò, sharing a knowledgeable insight on the role of streets in the evolution and transformation of the urban organism, formed by the vast academical and professional experience in urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe. The conference works counted with a roundtable with the moderation of Nuno Mateus which gathered a diversified panel of speakers: architect-artist-illustrator Ana Aragão, landscape architect João Nunes, economist-urbanist-geographer João Seixas and architect Lucinda Correia, who discussed about the “rhythms” of streets.
The second day of the conference counted with the Lisbon walking workshops that certainly will be kept in the memory of all participants [“WALK 1 - walking along tram 28 tracks”, accompanied by Jorge Mealha; “WALK 2 - walking and drawing”, accompanied by Pedro Janeiro; and “WALK 3, walking the hills and valleys”, accompanied by Carlos Dias Coelho] with the previous introductory talk on the “Names and Form of Lisbon streets” by Sérgio Barreiros Proença.
The street, as a public space, defines both common and exceptional elements of the city’s urban layout. The various declinations of forms, names and meanings of streets reflect different geographies and cultures that nevertheless share common characteristics.
Street, in Portuguese, is translated with the word rua. According to the first dictionary of the Portuguese language (Bluteau, 1712-1728), rua derives from the Greek ruo with the same meaning as the Latin flŭo: a stream of water “because through the streets runs the rainwater, that falls from the roofs (…) also the people run the streets, and each one of them is a stream of people (...).” Bluteau finally refers that some etymologists state that the word rua has the same Latin root as the word ruga, which means wrinkle: “a line, or a groove, caused by the time”. Rua therefore congregates the notions of motion and line, in a single word.
Recognising the street as a line produced by the effects of time on the skin of the city, as a wrinkle testify the passage of years, frames City Street 5– The Time of Streets: Incisions, overlaps and rhythms. Streets are the physical repository of the polis memory, an urban object in transformation over time, resulting from social and political evolutions that shape the form of the city, the urbs. Reading the incisions and the overlaps of time in the urban fabric, allows us to decode the polis eventum, which have contributed to form the present stratum urbanum. Understanding the cycles and rhythms that sculpt the wrinkles of the city, remains essential to imagine and design the future of streets.
Under this common theme, City Street 5 welcomed proposals from different contexts, methodological approaches, and disciplinary fields, that relate to the timeless importance of streets on the construction of the city as a framework for human life. From more than one hundred and twenty submissions, a selection of 60 papers, from authors of 23 different countries participated in the conference, distributed by the six tracks that also structure this book of proceedings: Track 1, STREET REPRESENTATION: theories and practices; Track 2 STREET MOBILITY: current and future trends; Track 3 ON STREETS: research tools and methodologies; Track 4 THE LIFE OF STREET: collective memories and multiple rhythms; Track 5 STREET ADAPTATION: urban transformations and (a)temporal needs; Track 6 THE FORM OF STREETS: interpreting and designing.”
Title:
Author: Alessia Allegri, Francesca Dal Cin, Luís Miguel Ginja e Sérgio Barreiros Proença
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: CityStrets5 The time of streets: incisions, overlaps and rhythms
Date: October 12-14, 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“The fifth edition of the City Street International Conference follows in the footsteps of the previous editions organized in Beirut by the Ramez G. Chagoury Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Design at Notre Dame University-Louaize, and in Ljubljana, virtually, by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana along with the Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia.
This time in Lisbon, City Street 5 was organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, with the support of the CIAUD (Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design) and the AEAULP (Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Schools of Portuguese Language); and was hosted at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Hosting the venue in one of the most significative examples of Portuguese modern post-war architecture, at the intersection and overlap of streets from different times, was a conscient choice to frame the debate on the time of streets in the most adequate setting.
Two keynotes framed the works of the conference: the opening of the first day counted with “Lisboa” by João Luís Carrilho da Graça, introducing the hosting city from a personal perspective of one of the most significant architects with a recognized body of works in the Portuguese capital; and the last day closed with “Streets: agents of the Transition” by Paola Viganò, sharing a knowledgeable insight on the role of streets in the evolution and transformation of the urban organism, formed by the vast academical and professional experience in urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe. The conference works counted with a roundtable with the moderation of Nuno Mateus which gathered a diversified panel of speakers: architect-artist-illustrator Ana Aragão, landscape architect João Nunes, economist-urbanist-geographer João Seixas and architect Lucinda Correia, who discussed about the “rhythms” of streets.
The second day of the conference counted with the Lisbon walking workshops that certainly will be kept in the memory of all participants [“WALK 1 - walking along tram 28 tracks”, accompanied by Jorge Mealha; “WALK 2 - walking and drawing”, accompanied by Pedro Janeiro; and “WALK 3, walking the hills and valleys”, accompanied by Carlos Dias Coelho] with the previous introductory talk on the “Names and Form of Lisbon streets” by Sérgio Barreiros Proença.
The street, as a public space, defines both common and exceptional elements of the city’s urban layout. The various declinations of forms, names and meanings of streets reflect different geographies and cultures that nevertheless share common characteristics.
Street, in Portuguese, is translated with the word rua. According to the first dictionary of the Portuguese language (Bluteau, 1712-1728), rua derives from the Greek ruo with the same meaning as the Latin flŭo: a stream of water “because through the streets runs the rainwater, that falls from the roofs (…) also the people run the streets, and each one of them is a stream of people (...).” Bluteau finally refers that some etymologists state that the word rua has the same Latin root as the word ruga, which means wrinkle: “a line, or a groove, caused by the time”. Rua therefore congregates the notions of motion and line, in a single word.
Recognising the street as a line produced by the effects of time on the skin of the city, as a wrinkle testify the passage of years, frames City Street 5– The Time of Streets: Incisions, overlaps and rhythms. Streets are the physical repository of the polis memory, an urban object in transformation over time, resulting from social and political evolutions that shape the form of the city, the urbs. Reading the incisions and the overlaps of time in the urban fabric, allows us to decode the polis eventum, which have contributed to form the present stratum urbanum. Understanding the cycles and rhythms that sculpt the wrinkles of the city, remains essential to imagine and design the future of streets.
Under this common theme, City Street 5 welcomed proposals from different contexts, methodological approaches, and disciplinary fields, that relate to the timeless importance of streets on the construction of the city as a framework for human life. From more than one hundred and twenty submissions, a selection of 60 papers, from authors of 23 different countries participated in the conference, distributed by the six tracks that also structure this book of proceedings: Track 1, STREET REPRESENTATION: theories and practices; Track 2 STREET MOBILITY: current and future trends; Track 3 ON STREETS: research tools and methodologies; Track 4 THE LIFE OF STREET: collective memories and multiple rhythms; Track 5 STREET ADAPTATION: urban transformations and (a)temporal needs; Track 6 THE FORM OF STREETS: interpreting and designing.”
This time in Lisbon, City Street 5 was organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, with the support of the CIAUD (Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and Design) and the AEAULP (Academy of Architecture and Urbanism Schools of Portuguese Language); and was hosted at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Hosting the venue in one of the most significative examples of Portuguese modern post-war architecture, at the intersection and overlap of streets from different times, was a conscient choice to frame the debate on the time of streets in the most adequate setting.
Two keynotes framed the works of the conference: the opening of the first day counted with “Lisboa” by João Luís Carrilho da Graça, introducing the hosting city from a personal perspective of one of the most significant architects with a recognized body of works in the Portuguese capital; and the last day closed with “Streets: agents of the Transition” by Paola Viganò, sharing a knowledgeable insight on the role of streets in the evolution and transformation of the urban organism, formed by the vast academical and professional experience in urban, landscape projects and public spaces in Europe. The conference works counted with a roundtable with the moderation of Nuno Mateus which gathered a diversified panel of speakers: architect-artist-illustrator Ana Aragão, landscape architect João Nunes, economist-urbanist-geographer João Seixas and architect Lucinda Correia, who discussed about the “rhythms” of streets.
The second day of the conference counted with the Lisbon walking workshops that certainly will be kept in the memory of all participants [“WALK 1 - walking along tram 28 tracks”, accompanied by Jorge Mealha; “WALK 2 - walking and drawing”, accompanied by Pedro Janeiro; and “WALK 3, walking the hills and valleys”, accompanied by Carlos Dias Coelho] with the previous introductory talk on the “Names and Form of Lisbon streets” by Sérgio Barreiros Proença.
The street, as a public space, defines both common and exceptional elements of the city’s urban layout. The various declinations of forms, names and meanings of streets reflect different geographies and cultures that nevertheless share common characteristics.
Street, in Portuguese, is translated with the word rua. According to the first dictionary of the Portuguese language (Bluteau, 1712-1728), rua derives from the Greek ruo with the same meaning as the Latin flŭo: a stream of water “because through the streets runs the rainwater, that falls from the roofs (…) also the people run the streets, and each one of them is a stream of people (...).” Bluteau finally refers that some etymologists state that the word rua has the same Latin root as the word ruga, which means wrinkle: “a line, or a groove, caused by the time”. Rua therefore congregates the notions of motion and line, in a single word.
Recognising the street as a line produced by the effects of time on the skin of the city, as a wrinkle testify the passage of years, frames City Street 5– The Time of Streets: Incisions, overlaps and rhythms. Streets are the physical repository of the polis memory, an urban object in transformation over time, resulting from social and political evolutions that shape the form of the city, the urbs. Reading the incisions and the overlaps of time in the urban fabric, allows us to decode the polis eventum, which have contributed to form the present stratum urbanum. Understanding the cycles and rhythms that sculpt the wrinkles of the city, remains essential to imagine and design the future of streets.
Under this common theme, City Street 5 welcomed proposals from different contexts, methodological approaches, and disciplinary fields, that relate to the timeless importance of streets on the construction of the city as a framework for human life. From more than one hundred and twenty submissions, a selection of 60 papers, from authors of 23 different countries participated in the conference, distributed by the six tracks that also structure this book of proceedings: Track 1, STREET REPRESENTATION: theories and practices; Track 2 STREET MOBILITY: current and future trends; Track 3 ON STREETS: research tools and methodologies; Track 4 THE LIFE OF STREET: collective memories and multiple rhythms; Track 5 STREET ADAPTATION: urban transformations and (a)temporal needs; Track 6 THE FORM OF STREETS: interpreting and designing.”
Title:
Author: Carlos Dias Coelho e Sérgio Padrão Fernandes
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: B+ (“buldings_mais”) – Building Typology, Morphological Inventory of the Portuguese City
Date: September 5-16, 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
"The book Parallels. Building Typology: Portugal, edited by Carlos Dias Coelho, Sérgio Padrão Fernandes and Rui Justo seeks to systematize a transversal look at the vast material produced by the research project over approximately 4 years.
This catalog contains 30 comparative boards representing series of buildings that have been organized into classes according to the 3 perspectives from which the buildings are read - program, context and time.
In the exhibition, 10 buildings were linked to represent each of the 3 lenses that determined the mapping of the territory and the construction of the inventory itself. In the catalog, which was actually one of the elements of the exhibition, these buildings are represented in parallel with others from the same typological family.
The comparative tables are the fundamental content of this book and provide a comparative framework for the 30 buildings that were selected to represent the inventory in the exhibition that celebrated the end of the research project. In a way, this partial sample of the work contains only ¼ of the buildings in the inventory, but it is representative of the diversity of the cases covered, as well as the classification matrix that was defined to organize the corpus of study.
In addition to the comparative tables, the final part of the book contains a series of urban fragments. These compare the isolated arrangement of individual buildings according to their geographical location with the urban context that gives them meaning.”
This catalog contains 30 comparative boards representing series of buildings that have been organized into classes according to the 3 perspectives from which the buildings are read - program, context and time.
In the exhibition, 10 buildings were linked to represent each of the 3 lenses that determined the mapping of the territory and the construction of the inventory itself. In the catalog, which was actually one of the elements of the exhibition, these buildings are represented in parallel with others from the same typological family.
The comparative tables are the fundamental content of this book and provide a comparative framework for the 30 buildings that were selected to represent the inventory in the exhibition that celebrated the end of the research project. In a way, this partial sample of the work contains only ¼ of the buildings in the inventory, but it is representative of the diversity of the cases covered, as well as the classification matrix that was defined to organize the corpus of study.
In addition to the comparative tables, the final part of the book contains a series of urban fragments. These compare the isolated arrangement of individual buildings according to their geographical location with the urban context that gives them meaning.”
Title:
Author: Carlos Dias Coelho e Sérgio Padrão Fernandes
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: B+ (“buldings_mais”) – Building Typology, Morphological Inventory of the Portuguese City
Date: September 5-16, 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
"The book Parallels. Building Typology: Portugal, edited by Carlos Dias Coelho, Sérgio Padrão Fernandes and Rui Justo seeks to systematize a transversal look at the vast material produced by the research project over approximately 4 years.
This catalog contains 30 comparative boards representing series of buildings that have been organized into classes according to the 3 perspectives from which the buildings are read - program, context and time.
In the exhibition, 10 buildings were linked to represent each of the 3 lenses that determined the mapping of the territory and the construction of the inventory itself. In the catalog, which was actually one of the elements of the exhibition, these buildings are represented in parallel with others from the same typological family.
The comparative tables are the fundamental content of this book and provide a comparative framework for the 30 buildings that were selected to represent the inventory in the exhibition that celebrated the end of the research project. In a way, this partial sample of the work contains only ¼ of the buildings in the inventory, but it is representative of the diversity of the cases covered, as well as the classification matrix that was defined to organize the corpus of study.
In addition to the comparative tables, the final part of the book contains a series of urban fragments. These compare the isolated arrangement of individual buildings according to their geographical location with the urban context that gives them meaning.”
This catalog contains 30 comparative boards representing series of buildings that have been organized into classes according to the 3 perspectives from which the buildings are read - program, context and time.
In the exhibition, 10 buildings were linked to represent each of the 3 lenses that determined the mapping of the territory and the construction of the inventory itself. In the catalog, which was actually one of the elements of the exhibition, these buildings are represented in parallel with others from the same typological family.
The comparative tables are the fundamental content of this book and provide a comparative framework for the 30 buildings that were selected to represent the inventory in the exhibition that celebrated the end of the research project. In a way, this partial sample of the work contains only ¼ of the buildings in the inventory, but it is representative of the diversity of the cases covered, as well as the classification matrix that was defined to organize the corpus of study.
In addition to the comparative tables, the final part of the book contains a series of urban fragments. These compare the isolated arrangement of individual buildings according to their geographical location with the urban context that gives them meaning.”
Title:
Author: Luís Carvalho, Cristina Cavaco, Cristina Henriques, Ana Pagliuso, André Pereira e João Mourato
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: Investigação SOFTPLAN
Date: January 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“The research project SOFTPLAN - From Soft Planning to Territorial Design. Practices and Prospects - aims to study soft planning practices in Portugal, analyzing in particular: (i) the way in which the European Union, namely through its Cohesion Policy and Structural Investment Funds, has been encouraging their implementation; (ii) the way in which these practices interfere and dialogue with the national territorial planning system and its statutory instruments. By soft planning we mean non-statutory and non-binding planning processes geared towards the strategic territorial development of certain territories and regions. As such, they take place outside and parallel to the formal processes provided for in the current territorial management system, and are voluntary in nature. Focusing on the effective implementation/execution of policy measures in contexts that are usually difficult and complex (from a social, economic, political-administrative point of view, etc.), soft planning processes are anchored in multidimensional, variable-geometry approaches that call for the integration and horizontal coordination of the different sectoral policies, the vertical coordination of the different levels of government, and the participation of the various stakeholders and territorial actors relevant to the development of the target territory. What has been observed, especially in the last decade, is that under the umbrella of the European Structural Funds and in particular within the scope of the latest Community Support Frameworks, the European Commission has launched a set of policy instruments which, although non-binding, aim to leverage integrated territorial approaches, thus stimulating the emergence of soft planning processes and spaces, parallel/complementary to Territorial Management Instruments. This report presents the results achieved under Task 3 of the SOFTPLAN research project, which focused on identifying, characterizing and comparing soft planning tools and practices in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region (LVT), here restricted to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML). To this end, the object of study was the policy initiatives designed and implemented within the scope of Portugal 2020, relating to the 2014-2020 Community programming cycle, and which provide a framework for integrated territorial approaches geared towards the urban and territorial development of the territories of focus. Within the scope of this research and report, the analysis focuses more particularly on the instruments resulting from the application, in Portugal, of Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation aimed at promoting sustainable urban development, namely the Strategic Urban Development Plans (PEDU) and their derivative instruments - PARU, PAMUS and PAICD - and which, within the framework of operational programming, correspond to the application of an axis of the ROPs (Axis 8 in the case of ROP Lisboa 2014-2020) specifically aimed at Sustainable Urban Development. In addition to the identification and territorial and thematic characterization of the PEDU as soft planning instruments, this report compares their relationship with the implementation of other policy initiatives which also correspond to integrated territorial approaches within the framework of the application of non-statutory Portugal 2020 planning instruments - Community-Based Local Developments (DLBC) and the AML Pact for Development and Territorial Cohesion (PDCT AML) - as well as, with the implementation of the SUAVE PLANNING INSTRUMENTS IN THE REGION OF LISBON SOFTPLAN 21 Urban Rehabilitation Areas (ARU) which, although regulated by Decree-Law no. 307/2009, of October 23, served as the basis for the implementation of the PARUs. This analysis and report seek to respond to the first of the objectives set by the SOFTPLAN project, i.e. to understand how the European Union, specifically through its Cohesion Policy and Structural Investment Funds, has been encouraging the implementation of soft planning practices in Portugal.”
Title:
Author: Luís Carvalho, Cristina Cavaco, Cristina Henriques, Ana Pagliuso, André Pereira e João Mourato
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: Investigação SOFTPLAN
Date: January 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“The research project SOFTPLAN - From Soft Planning to Territorial Design. Practices and Prospects - aims to study soft planning practices in Portugal, analyzing in particular: (i) the way in which the European Union, namely through its Cohesion Policy and Structural Investment Funds, has been encouraging their implementation; (ii) the way in which these practices interfere and dialogue with the national territorial planning system and its statutory instruments. By soft planning we mean non-statutory and non-binding planning processes geared towards the strategic territorial development of certain territories and regions. As such, they take place outside and parallel to the formal processes provided for in the current territorial management system, and are voluntary in nature. Focusing on the effective implementation/execution of policy measures in contexts that are usually difficult and complex (from a social, economic, political-administrative point of view, etc.), soft planning processes are anchored in multidimensional, variable-geometry approaches that call for the integration and horizontal coordination of the different sectoral policies, the vertical coordination of the different levels of government, and the participation of the various stakeholders and territorial actors relevant to the development of the target territory. What has been observed, especially in the last decade, is that under the umbrella of the European Structural Funds and in particular within the scope of the latest Community Support Frameworks, the European Commission has launched a set of policy instruments which, although non-binding, aim to leverage integrated territorial approaches, thus stimulating the emergence of soft planning processes and spaces, parallel/complementary to Territorial Management Instruments. This report presents the results achieved under Task 3 of the SOFTPLAN research project, which focused on identifying, characterizing and comparing soft planning tools and practices in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region (LVT), here restricted to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area (AML). To this end, the object of study was the policy initiatives designed and implemented within the scope of Portugal 2020, relating to the 2014-2020 Community programming cycle, and which provide a framework for integrated territorial approaches geared towards the urban and territorial development of the territories of focus. Within the scope of this research and report, the analysis focuses more particularly on the instruments resulting from the application, in Portugal, of Article 7 of the ERDF Regulation aimed at promoting sustainable urban development, namely the Strategic Urban Development Plans (PEDU) and their derivative instruments - PARU, PAMUS and PAICD - and which, within the framework of operational programming, correspond to the application of an axis of the ROPs (Axis 8 in the case of ROP Lisboa 2014-2020) specifically aimed at Sustainable Urban Development. In addition to the identification and territorial and thematic characterization of the PEDU as soft planning instruments, this report compares their relationship with the implementation of other policy initiatives which also correspond to integrated territorial approaches within the framework of the application of non-statutory Portugal 2020 planning instruments - Community-Based Local Developments (DLBC) and the AML Pact for Development and Territorial Cohesion (PDCT AML) - as well as, with the implementation of the SUAVE PLANNING INSTRUMENTS IN THE REGION OF LISBON SOFTPLAN 21 Urban Rehabilitation Areas (ARU) which, although regulated by Decree-Law no. 307/2009, of October 23, served as the basis for the implementation of the PARUs. This analysis and report seek to respond to the first of the objectives set by the SOFTPLAN project, i.e. to understand how the European Union, specifically through its Cohesion Policy and Structural Investment Funds, has been encouraging the implementation of soft planning practices in Portugal.”
Title:
Author: Jorge Cruz Pinto, Hugo Farias, Ljiljana Cavic e Luís Miguel Ginja
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: 10th edition of the Projetar International Seminar
Date: November 16-19, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“The set of works presented here is the result of the 10th edition of the International Projecting Seminar, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, between November 16 and 19, 2021. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was not possible to hold it. Some authors and speakers were able to attend, while others attended the seminar remotely. More than three hundred participants, including lecturers, professors, researchers, doctoral students and master's students, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala and even South Korea, among other countries. This edition was organized by the Projetar Group, linked to the Department of Architecture and the Postgraduate Programme in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and by the Centre for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (CIAUD - FAUL), with the support of the Academy of Portuguese Language Schools of Architecture and Urbanism (AEAULP). As a reflection of the exceptional times we live in, the central theme of the Seminar was - Designing in a Context of Crisis. It proposed a critical reflection on the widespread crisis facing our planet, which is not only health-related, but also climatic, environmental, social and economic, as well as how these successive states have transformed, and will continue to transform, Architecture, the City, the Territory and ways of living. The challenge was to contribute to finding new solutions and new paradigms for a more balanced relationship between Human Beings and their Environment, through Research, Teaching and the Practice of Architecture, which were built around three thematic axes for reflection and the development of the work. Thinking, a critical reflection in the search for new solutions, proposals, projects, models, utopias, which could constitute innovative responses to relevant issues that are approaching. Building, a reflection on technologies, processes, systems, solutions, materialities, tools and methodologies that can contribute to the construction of a more sustainable, ecological, humanized and resilient Architecture and City. Inhabit, as a reflection on how the climate, environmental, social, economic and health crisis has contributed to an acceleration, sometimes radical, of the transformation in the ways of inhabiting Architecture, the City, the Landscape and the Territory. More than a document of a past event, the book of proceedings of the Seminar is an opportunity to think about the construction of Our Future. It is an opportunity to continue all the reflection and debate generated during the event, now in a complete and panoramic way, and it is hoped that it can contribute to continuing, broadening and deepening the discussion of the Architecture and Urbanism Project in contemporary times, the central objective of the Projetar seminars. We would like to thank everyone for their committed and interested participation in the event, as well as the quantity and quality of the work developed and presented, which we are now sharing.”
Title:
Author: Jorge Cruz Pinto, Hugo Farias, Ljiljana Cavic e Luís Miguel Ginja
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: 10th edition of the Projetar International Seminar
Date: November 16-19, 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“The set of works presented here is the result of the 10th edition of the International Projecting Seminar, which took place in Lisbon, Portugal, between November 16 and 19, 2021. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was not possible to hold it. Some authors and speakers were able to attend, while others attended the seminar remotely. More than three hundred participants, including lecturers, professors, researchers, doctoral students and master's students, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala and even South Korea, among other countries. This edition was organized by the Projetar Group, linked to the Department of Architecture and the Postgraduate Programme in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and by the Centre for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (CIAUD - FAUL), with the support of the Academy of Portuguese Language Schools of Architecture and Urbanism (AEAULP). As a reflection of the exceptional times we live in, the central theme of the Seminar was - Designing in a Context of Crisis. It proposed a critical reflection on the widespread crisis facing our planet, which is not only health-related, but also climatic, environmental, social and economic, as well as how these successive states have transformed, and will continue to transform, Architecture, the City, the Territory and ways of living. The challenge was to contribute to finding new solutions and new paradigms for a more balanced relationship between Human Beings and their Environment, through Research, Teaching and the Practice of Architecture, which were built around three thematic axes for reflection and the development of the work. Thinking, a critical reflection in the search for new solutions, proposals, projects, models, utopias, which could constitute innovative responses to relevant issues that are approaching. Building, a reflection on technologies, processes, systems, solutions, materialities, tools and methodologies that can contribute to the construction of a more sustainable, ecological, humanized and resilient Architecture and City. Inhabit, as a reflection on how the climate, environmental, social, economic and health crisis has contributed to an acceleration, sometimes radical, of the transformation in the ways of inhabiting Architecture, the City, the Landscape and the Territory. More than a document of a past event, the book of proceedings of the Seminar is an opportunity to think about the construction of Our Future. It is an opportunity to continue all the reflection and debate generated during the event, now in a complete and panoramic way, and it is hoped that it can contribute to continuing, broadening and deepening the discussion of the Architecture and Urbanism Project in contemporary times, the central objective of the Projetar seminars. We would like to thank everyone for their committed and interested participation in the event, as well as the quantity and quality of the work developed and presented, which we are now sharing.”
Title:
Author: João Rafael Santos e João Silva Leite
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: 5th grade students from the 2021 school year
Date: 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“This book explores various aspects of the relationship between infrastructure and territory, based on a conceptual reflection and, above all, on a set of speculative project proposals developed at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Taking the integration of a high-capacity, high-potential public transport line on the A5 freeway, a key road link in Lisbon's metropolitan territory, as the instigating hypothesis launched by Cascais City Council, a series of academic projects were developed as part of the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture, with a specialization in Urbanism, in which potential forms of intervention along the A5 were imagined, considering alternative ways of inhabiting the infrastructural space and reviewing its metropolitan planning role.”
Title:
Author: João Rafael Santos e João Silva Leite
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: 5th grade students from the 2021 school year
Date: 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“This book explores various aspects of the relationship between infrastructure and territory, based on a conceptual reflection and, above all, on a set of speculative project proposals developed at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. Taking the integration of a high-capacity, high-potential public transport line on the A5 freeway, a key road link in Lisbon's metropolitan territory, as the instigating hypothesis launched by Cascais City Council, a series of academic projects were developed as part of the Integrated Master's Degree in Architecture, with a specialization in Urbanism, in which potential forms of intervention along the A5 were imagined, considering alternative ways of inhabiting the infrastructural space and reviewing its metropolitan planning role.”
Title:
Author: Cristina Cavaco, João Rafael Santos e Eduardo Brito-Henriques
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: NoVOID Workshop - Book presentation
Date: December 18, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“This book challenges to imagine new viabilities for abandoned areas in the cities. This feat that I. Solà-Morales (1995) made over two decades ago has recently become particularly urgent. The ever quicker and unexpected transitions between cycles of expansion and retraction in the global economy, the rising capital mobility and volatility of the globalization related investments, as well as the proliferation of shrinking cities in large regions of the world partly due to the population ageing, converge towards the trivialization of empty and derelict sites in cities. Still, we are living more and more acutely the time acceleration mentioned by Hartmut Rosa (2013), which forces us to rethink about the time-bound limits of urbanism. Time acceleration has consequences for the changeability of the city and, thus, for the urban planning’s temporality, since the rhythms of occupation and abandonment of the built structures in cities as well as ruination became more unpredictable and faster. Historically, the logic behind urbanism has always been about planning for what is fixed and stable, developing preferably long-term and longlasting projects. The acceleration of time places a new challenge upon contemporary urbanism, compelling us to invent new ways of planning for what is changeable and transient through short-term projects designed for an uncertain and brief time. In this book we aim to open the debate about the possibility of an urbanism that is both changeable and temporary, and about the utility of its application on the urban derelict areas in particular.”
Title:
Author: Cristina Cavaco, João Rafael Santos e Eduardo Brito-Henriques
Publisher: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Event: NoVOID Workshop - Book presentation
Date: December 18, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“This book challenges to imagine new viabilities for abandoned areas in the cities. This feat that I. Solà-Morales (1995) made over two decades ago has recently become particularly urgent. The ever quicker and unexpected transitions between cycles of expansion and retraction in the global economy, the rising capital mobility and volatility of the globalization related investments, as well as the proliferation of shrinking cities in large regions of the world partly due to the population ageing, converge towards the trivialization of empty and derelict sites in cities. Still, we are living more and more acutely the time acceleration mentioned by Hartmut Rosa (2013), which forces us to rethink about the time-bound limits of urbanism. Time acceleration has consequences for the changeability of the city and, thus, for the urban planning’s temporality, since the rhythms of occupation and abandonment of the built structures in cities as well as ruination became more unpredictable and faster. Historically, the logic behind urbanism has always been about planning for what is fixed and stable, developing preferably long-term and longlasting projects. The acceleration of time places a new challenge upon contemporary urbanism, compelling us to invent new ways of planning for what is changeable and transient through short-term projects designed for an uncertain and brief time. In this book we aim to open the debate about the possibility of an urbanism that is both changeable and temporary, and about the utility of its application on the urban derelict areas in particular.”
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 4th International Seminar
Date: April 25-28, 2017 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Synopsis:
"The cultural moment in which we live is marked by an overvaluation of our individual dimension and an insistent erasure of our collective dimension. The contemporary resistance to recognizing ourselves, beyond the individual dimension, also corresponds to a resistance to recognizing other times in the construction of contemporaneity and, even at the waning of the modern spirit and at a time when the most diffuse morality raises countless obstacles to the transformation of the world by the work of Man, the dimension of novelty continues to make us forget how much of this novelty is made up of continuity and how our time, the instant of opportunity of our lives, is nothing more than a narrow joint between past and future, with the possibility of coherently filling this ephemeral gap. The idea of continuity, in space and time, between our individual existence and the collective experience, is directly linked to the idea of identity, of genetic heritage, of a common way of living that has somehow shaped a way of living, a way of changing the world, of describing it, and these ways allow for a sense of territory that is independent of the sense of possession, and established above all by the idea of community, of sharing common experiences and the existence of tools to describe and process these experiences. The idea of recognition is linked to the strange sensation we feel when we go around the world and, in a place we've never been before, we suddenly recognize, on a street corner, in a fragment of a conversation, in a smell, a look or a gesture, the places of our childhood, Sunday lunches and the stones of the house we were born in. We inhabit spaces and landscapes, but we also inhabit our language, the universe in which our ideas and meanings are constructed and travel, the narrative of our experiences, the communication of what we have learned, who we want to teach, establishing the coherent construction of Culture."
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 4th International Seminar
Date: April 25-28, 2017 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Synopsis:
"The cultural moment in which we live is marked by an overvaluation of our individual dimension and an insistent erasure of our collective dimension. The contemporary resistance to recognizing ourselves, beyond the individual dimension, also corresponds to a resistance to recognizing other times in the construction of contemporaneity and, even at the waning of the modern spirit and at a time when the most diffuse morality raises countless obstacles to the transformation of the world by the work of Man, the dimension of novelty continues to make us forget how much of this novelty is made up of continuity and how our time, the instant of opportunity of our lives, is nothing more than a narrow joint between past and future, with the possibility of coherently filling this ephemeral gap. The idea of continuity, in space and time, between our individual existence and the collective experience, is directly linked to the idea of identity, of genetic heritage, of a common way of living that has somehow shaped a way of living, a way of changing the world, of describing it, and these ways allow for a sense of territory that is independent of the sense of possession, and established above all by the idea of community, of sharing common experiences and the existence of tools to describe and process these experiences. The idea of recognition is linked to the strange sensation we feel when we go around the world and, in a place we've never been before, we suddenly recognize, on a street corner, in a fragment of a conversation, in a smell, a look or a gesture, the places of our childhood, Sunday lunches and the stones of the house we were born in. We inhabit spaces and landscapes, but we also inhabit our language, the universe in which our ideas and meanings are constructed and travel, the narrative of our experiences, the communication of what we have learned, who we want to teach, establishing the coherent construction of Culture."
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 3rd International Seminar
Date: October 13-15, 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
"Architecture is the definitive mark of man's action on the environment. As a living memory of the cultures that produced it, it celebrates important events and institutions and, at the same time, translates a vision of the cosmos that imposes human order on undifferentiated space, translated into a specific way of being and being. This is man's way of differentiating himself from "natural" space. But if architecture provides man with places of residence that define an artificial habitat, a humanized environment that serves as a stage for his daily life, it is certainly in the architectural expression of a region or a way of building linked to an economy that we can distinguish its most genuine manifestations. And so this manifestation, which always appears linked to a real space and to those conditions of survival that depend above all on a culturalized appropriation of that space, becomes the living testimony of a specific way of being in the world. For all these reasons, it will always be justified to look closely at the "architectures of the sea", as the result of a riverside settlement, the "architectures of the land", as the origin of all constructive activity and the "architectures of the air", as a Babelian dream of human entrepreneurial capacity."
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 3rd International Seminar
Date: October 13-15, 2014 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
"Architecture is the definitive mark of man's action on the environment. As a living memory of the cultures that produced it, it celebrates important events and institutions and, at the same time, translates a vision of the cosmos that imposes human order on undifferentiated space, translated into a specific way of being and being. This is man's way of differentiating himself from "natural" space. But if architecture provides man with places of residence that define an artificial habitat, a humanized environment that serves as a stage for his daily life, it is certainly in the architectural expression of a region or a way of building linked to an economy that we can distinguish its most genuine manifestations. And so this manifestation, which always appears linked to a real space and to those conditions of survival that depend above all on a culturalized appropriation of that space, becomes the living testimony of a specific way of being in the world. For all these reasons, it will always be justified to look closely at the "architectures of the sea", as the result of a riverside settlement, the "architectures of the land", as the origin of all constructive activity and the "architectures of the air", as a Babelian dream of human entrepreneurial capacity."
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 2nd International Seminar
Date: November 5-7, 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“Architecture and representation, understanding the latter in its broadest sense, that is, as a way of making present what is absent, appear, as concepts, to be mutually implicated. It is not uncommon, moreover, for us to consider that architecture, in certain respects, is not much more than that: pure representation. Why is that? Because the space it inaugurates develops above all on the symbolic level: interiority and exteriority separated by meaningful boundaries. Architecture can never be a simple enclosure for spaces intended for activities. Architecture qualifies the activities that take place in the space it defines and confers status on its inhabitants. It is therefore first and foremost a question of what architecture means. Here, architecture displays and exhibits itself through significant forms. Isn't it true that it is from the moment that space as a form refers to something other than that same space, as an extension, for example, that we will consider the meanings of architecture? In this way, space only acquires semantic thickness when it becomes something other than itself, especially for those who experience it. Architecture then becomes, first and foremost, a kind of vehicle. In fact, the very act of human habitation involves a process of this kind. This is what gives architecture the power to qualify space. It's not strange, then, that we should devote some thought to the fact that architecture, like all representation, always requires a stage. That's the theme of Stages of Architecture.”
Título:
Autor/Edição: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Evento/Conferência: 2º Seminário Internacional
Data: 5 a 7 de novembro de 2012 em Lisboa, Portugal
Sinopse:
“Arquitectura e representação, entendendo esta última na sua acepção mais lata, isto é, como um modo de tornar presente o que está ausente, surgem, como conceitos, mutuamente implicadas. Não é raro, aliás considerarmos que a arquitectura, em certos aspectos, não é muito mais do que isso: pura representação. Porquê? Porque o espaço que ela inaugura se desenvolve sobretudo no plano do simbólico: a interioridade e a exterioridade separadas por fronteiras com significância. A arquitectura não poderá jamais ser o simples invólucro de espaços destinados a actividades. A Arquitectura qualifica as actividades que no espaço por ela definida se desenvolvem e confere estatuto aos seus habitantes. Trata-se, assim e em primeiro lugar, de encarar aquilo que a arquitectura quer dizer. Por aqui, a arquitectura exibe e exibe-se através de formas significantes. Não é verdade que é, desde o momento em que o espaço enquanto forma reenvia para qualquer coisa diferente desse mesmo espaço, como extensão, por exemplo, que consideraremos as significações da arquitectura? Desta forma, o espaço só adquire espessura semântica quando se torna algo diferente dele mesmo, sobretudo para quem o vivencia. E a Arquitectura transforma-se, então e antes do mais, numa espécie de veículo. De resto, o próprio acto de habitar humano implica um processo deste tipo. É isso, aliás, que dá à Arquitectura o poder de qualificar o espaço. Não será, assim, estranho que dediquemos alguma reflexão ao facto de a arquitectura, como toda a representação, exigir sempre um palco. Esse é o tema de Palcos da Arquitectura.”
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 2nd International Seminar
Date: November 5-7, 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“Architecture and representation, understanding the latter in its broadest sense, that is, as a way of making present what is absent, appear, as concepts, to be mutually implicated. It is not uncommon, moreover, for us to consider that architecture, in certain respects, is not much more than that: pure representation. Why is that? Because the space it inaugurates develops above all on the symbolic level: interiority and exteriority separated by meaningful boundaries. Architecture can never be a simple enclosure for spaces intended for activities. Architecture qualifies the activities that take place in the space it defines and confers status on its inhabitants. It is therefore first and foremost a question of what architecture means. Here, architecture displays and exhibits itself through significant forms. Isn't it true that it is from the moment that space as a form refers to something other than that same space, as an extension, for example, that we will consider the meanings of architecture? In this way, space only acquires semantic thickness when it becomes something other than itself, especially for those who experience it. Architecture then becomes, first and foremost, a kind of vehicle. In fact, the very act of human habitation involves a process of this kind. This is what gives architecture the power to qualify space. It's not strange, then, that we should devote some thought to the fact that architecture, like all representation, always requires a stage. That's the theme of Stages of Architecture.”
Title:
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 2nd International Seminar
Date: November 5-7, 2012 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
“Architecture and representation, understanding the latter in its broadest sense, that is, as a way of making present what is absent, appear, as concepts, to be mutually implicated. It is not uncommon, moreover, for us to consider that architecture, in certain respects, is not much more than that: pure representation. Why is that? Because the space it inaugurates develops above all on the symbolic level: interiority and exteriority separated by meaningful boundaries. Architecture can never be a simple enclosure for spaces intended for activities. Architecture qualifies the activities that take place in the space it defines and confers status on its inhabitants. It is therefore first and foremost a question of what architecture means. Here, architecture displays and exhibits itself through significant forms. Isn't it true that it is from the moment that space as a form refers to something other than that same space, as an extension, for example, that we will consider the meanings of architecture? In this way, space only acquires semantic thickness when it becomes something other than itself, especially for those who experience it. Architecture then becomes, first and foremost, a kind of vehicle. In fact, the very act of human habitation involves a process of this kind. This is what gives architecture the power to qualify space. It's not strange, then, that we should devote some thought to the fact that architecture, like all representation, always requires a stage. That's the theme of Stages of Architecture.”
Title:
• Uma Utopia Sustentável - Arquitectura e Urbanismo no Espaço Lusófono: Que futuro?
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 1st International Seminar
Date: April 19-23, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
"In every utopia there is always the promise of a “tomorrow” and an “elsewhere”. If, in most cases, utopia starts from the recognition of a mythical past, it always leads to the best of futures. And to think about the future, whatever it may be, is to be able to think about it sustainably: this is one of the conditions of our survival; this is the challenge of contemporaneity. When we think of a community of Lusophone peoples, we give it a place and a time. That place is under construction. That time belongs to the future."
Title:
• Uma Utopia Sustentável - Arquitectura e Urbanismo no Espaço Lusófono: Que futuro?
Author: Academia de Escolas de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de Língua Portuguesa
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Event: 1st International Seminar
Date: April 19-23, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal
Synopsis:
"In every utopia there is always the promise of a “tomorrow” and an “elsewhere”. If, in most cases, utopia starts from the recognition of a mythical past, it always leads to the best of futures. And to think about the future, whatever it may be, is to be able to think about it sustainably: this is one of the conditions of our survival; this is the challenge of contemporaneity. When we think of a community of Lusophone peoples, we give it a place and a time. That place is under construction. That time belongs to the future."