XIII Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism Award!
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DAM Architectural Book Award 2024!
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Monade x Da UAL, Lisboa
09.10.2024
Lecture by
João Gomes da Silva
at Da Ual, Lisbon
Talk with
Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões and Ricardo Carvalho
The volume which Daniela Sá and João Carmo Simões (also responsible, the latter, for the fine portfolio of photographs) have produced on the work of João Gomes da Silva fills a major gap in a crucial sector of our discipline.
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João Gomes da Silva's book is the irrefutable proof that it is this qualification — in many cases urgent — of our landscape, our architecture and our territory that deserves to be a priority.
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Monade x Casabella, Milan
20.03.2024
Lecture and book signing by
João Gomes da Silva
at Theatro Milano
Via Vigevano 8, Milan
Monade x FEP, Porto
07.03.2024
Book launch and Talk around the book “FEP / Viana de Lima” with
Daniela Sá, Domingos Tavares, João Carmo Simões, Nuno Brandão Costa e Sergio Fernandez
Monade x Serralves, Porto
25.11.2023
Book launch and Talk around the book “The Order of Landscape” with
Álvaro Siza, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Gomes da Silva, Paulo David, Philippe Vergne
Monade x maat / Fundação EDP, Lisboa
31.10.2023
Book launch and Talk around the book “The Order of Landscape” with
João Gomes da Silva, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Pinharanda, Sérgio Mah
A groundbreaking work of modernity in Porto, the FEP faculty building is a hidden architectural masterpiece, designed by Alfredo Viana de Lima in the 1960s.
Through photographs especially taken by João Carmo Simões and new edited drawings, this book shows why the project has been, a silent reference for generations of Portuguese architects.
Obra pioneira da modernidade no Porto, o edifício da Faculdade de Economia do Porto é uma obra-prima pouco conhecida, projectada por Alfredo Viana de Lima na década de 60. Com imagens de João Carmo Simões e desenhos de projecto reeditados, este livro mostra porque é que esta obra tem sido uma referência silenciosa para gerações de arquitectos portugueses.
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For two years we’ve travelled through fields and mountains, islands and inlands, under high winds and strong suns to capture a vision: The Order of Landscape
Unveiling the work of João Gomes da Silva.
A forefront figure in contemporary Portuguese (Landscape) Architecture, professor at Mendrisio USI.
There is a game in which the player places an open palm and splayed fingers on a table, then, using a penknife, stabs back and forth between the gaps, faster and faster.
A dangerous game. Such is Architecture.
Álvaro Siza
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1. Art is no longer to be made mysterious
2. Imagining is knowing how to do it
3. Architecture is aimed at doing
4. Nature is not a mother
5. Each of us begins everything
6. Horror lies in the destruction of technique
7. You have to make yourself say: “I know!” And if you don’t, who does?
Monocle Radio / The Urbanist
Tall Stories 305: Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo:
Monocle’s Ivan Carvalho looks at a remarkable piece of architecture designed by Lina Bo Bardi, whose efforts to preserve an oil-drum factory in the middle of Brazil’s biggest city resulted in a refined design that meets the needs of the community.
DOMUS
Over the course of his long and prolific career, Álvaro Siza has rarely spoken firsthand of the process guiding his practice. Instead, this small but attentively edited publication, allows this little-known dimension of his to emerge, with a collection of contributions in English and sketches by the Portuguese master.
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One of the most consistent and yet fully surprising architects working today, Álvaro Siza, Pritzker Prize shares his List spanning from fundamental editions on Alvar Aalto or Walther Gropius, to lesser-known Italian modernism, Brazil, critical history and philosophy, a striking novel, and poetry, from Portuguese to Greek and Persian masters.
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The List is a project created by monade to share and make available to order a rigorous selection of books chosen by some of the most decisive minds in Architecture. From Architecture to Poetry, History, Philosophy, Literature, Science, Photography.
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monade x ISUP Mendrisio / 22.06.2021
with Kenneth Frampton, Álvaro Siza, João Gomes da Silva, Jonathan Sergison, Daniela Sá
See full video here.
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Peter Testa
What most resonates with the writings in “Imagining the Evident” is Siza’s commitment to new ways of seeing as the first means by which architecture becomes speculative.
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