Victor Neves
The Door of Architecture
Publisher: Quântica Editora
This work addresses the theme of the door in architecture, especially in a contemporary context, criticizing the devaluation of the door as a formal and significant element in some contemporary architecture, but also presenting some examples that we can consider as paradigmatic of this approach. This theme and this specific approach to the theme are unprecedented.
This bilingual edition (portuguese and english), which contains a set of large format photos, is preferably aimed for architects, and students of artistic fields, but also for the general public, who will find there an interesting didactic and recreational vehicle, namely through an included photo album of doors.
Victor Neves
The Door of Architecture
Publisher: Quântica Editora
This work addresses the theme of the door in architecture, especially in a contemporary context, criticizing the devaluation of the door as a formal and significant element in some contemporary architecture, but also presenting some examples that we can consider as paradigmatic of this approach. This theme and this specific approach to the theme are unprecedented.
This bilingual edition (portuguese and english), which contains a set of large format photos, is preferably aimed for architects, and students of artistic fields, but also for the general public, who will find there an interesting didactic and recreational vehicle, namely through an included photo album of doors.
Gonçalo M. Furtado
THE SURVIVAL OF THE POST-INDUSTRIAL CITY: NETWORKS, FLOWS, BITS AND CREATIVITY
ASPECTS FOR CONTEMPORARY DEBATE
Publisher: CENTRO DE INOVAÇÃO
Arquitectura e Modos de Habitar
The book 'The survival of the post-industrial city: networks, flows, bits and creativity', by Gonçalo Furtado, professor and researcher at FAUP, is edited by the research group Architecture and Habitation of the Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies at FAUP.
With the city as its central theme, the book revisits a set of texts by Gonçalo Furtado or in co-authorship with other authors and is structured in five parts: the urban and the theoretical debate; after the industrial city; intervene in the city at the end of the 20th century; the city in the post-industrial context; the urban and the information society.
Jusep Montañola
BUILDING THE NEW SENSE OF PLACE
ARQUITECTONICS 32
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
BARCELONA TECH
Something very important is happening in the spatial human theories and practices. Just see the last articles by professor Luis Umbalino, or the works by professor Rainer E. Zimmermann already published in this same architectonics review some months ago. Also, the change in the cancer therapies going from the study of the tumor to the study of the methastasis indicates profound mental and cultural changes.
We are not aware of the significance of these changes, as we have not been aware of the origin of the innovative forces in the Bauhaus, thanks to their inter-disciplinary, inter-cultural and inter-artistic dimensions. We should have began to understand that architecture is not isolated knowledge, it depends upon a physical, social and cultural environment where architecture and urban planning can develop in a lot of directions, and improve it.
We are at the starting point of a new concept and a new reality of the human placeness. New in the globality and digitalization, but also new in a different experience of space and time that, similar to the Einstein revolution in astronomy, changes dramatically the conditions of cities and landscapes, again with realities until now ignored by humanity.
Architects will need to change in order to survive. They have always survived. They should look to the innovative Bauhaus School looking for the dialogical and interactive structure of that school, totally ignored and rejected afterwards in USA by some of the architects that made this school possible. Architects quickly renounce and fight again their own professors in theory in practice. We need more authenticity and flexibility in order to survive. The last book of Richard Sennett is a good starting point.
Josep Muntañola Thornberg, PhD Architect
Camilo Rebelo
OLIM
Publisher: Cityscopio
SCOPIO EDITIONS
OLIM, is a Latin word which refers to a time other than the present, in the past or in the future, or it indicates an indefinite time, but not the here and now. It corresponds to a personal reflection by Camilo Rebelo about his experience of life and work. This book is a nonlinear narrative, where memory, identity and places are linked to one another in a rhizomatic way, through various stories about personal and professional life. OLIM challenges readers to search for a meaning in the fragments of journeys and projects that shows us, through images combined with sundry thoughts, something that brings it closer to Umberto Eco's concept of opera aperta because it allows a range of interpretations.
Believing that existence is something sacred and that there are creator gods in each of us, the author seems to (re)imagine his existencial territory with this book, not only in this world, but also on (Olym)pus, as if this were The Playground of gods, not only the temple dedicated to Zeus, but the playroom of all gods of Mount Olympus. Regarded by many authors as divine entities very close to humans, humans of a different kind who, despite being divine, used to fight one another and could behave irrationally and unfairly. Their lives and stories still have much to teach us today.
The various places in Camilo's existential and professional territory are shown through a nonlinear visual narrative, in book format, where fiction and reality mingle in an imaginative way. The book thus links the image, especially photography, with the text to create a visual discourse where there is room for coherence, and for paradox and play, too, the oxymoron. This work tells us a part of Camilo's unique story, imaginatively and symbolically disclosing his origins, travel memories, life experiences, and architectural designs, and where his works are not the focus, but a leimotif that ponctuates the entire book, his work linked with his person.
Mário Chaves
CASA DE JANUS
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa 2021
At Janus' house, the past, the present and the future fit. In the past, society was invented, consciousness was discovered, finiteness was perceived, civilization was founded. In the present we have the paradox that the history of the past does not legitimize the present and does not guarantee the future. And Janus looks compassionately at the circumstance, in which the link of continuity, has breaks that generate ruptures of paradigms, about which revolutions take place. Everything stays as it is, leaving nothing as it was. We are witnessing a new present from a future, which Janus already knows. And in it, it awaits us because it knows that we will get there in any and all ways. It is a new time ahead. Architecture has been participatory, since the beginning of history, in the construction of this discourse, successively disruptive and dystopian, in the construction of a utopia, successively desired, even if at the cost of great cleavages. Again, architecture will find new forms and ways of embodying the society that is approaching, less analogue, apparently more digital, more fragmented and unequal, unable to solve the problems that have always plagued it, but which inevitably push it into that future. that Janus has already defined as the one we deserve. And Casa de Janus is an eloquent form of Architecture.
Stefano Corbo
From Formalism to Weak Form:
The Architecture and Philosophy of Peter Eisenman
Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
Editor de séries: Eamonn Canniffe, Manchester School of Architecture; Manchester Metropolitan University, Reino Unido
The discipline of Architecture is undergoing subtle transformation as design awareness permeates our visually dominated culture. Technological change, the search for sustainability and debates around the value of place and meaning of the architectural gesture are aspects which will affect the cities we inhabit. This series seeks to address such topics, both theoretically and in practice, through the publication of high quality original research, written and visual.
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