TVI News: The architect Nuno Lacerda has created a project in which he tries to reuse the remains of materials that were destroyed in the fires in Pedrógão Grande. The pieces will be on display in Lisbon, and the total revenue goes to associations.

Location

Coletivo 284

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— Pyros Exhibition at Colectivo 284

Satu Suikkari-Kleven, Embaixadora da Finlândia

Pyros is on display today, 16 October 2020, at Coletivo 284, an exhibition space at Rua das Amoreiras 72-A, Lisbon.

Pyros is an exclusive (unrepeatable…) collection of pieces of furniture made from burnt wood, created to draw attention to the problem of the fires that destroy our forests every year. Challenged by FCB Lisbon, Architect Carlos Nuno Lacerda Lopes gave life to this impressive collection of “anti-design” furniture.

Location

Coletivo 284

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ISBN
978-989-98808-5-6

Edition
CIAMH

Year
2019

Number of pages
134

Dimensions
14,5x22cm

— “Conversas com Arquitectos” no. 12 is out now!

No. 12 “Conversas com Arquitectos – Nuno Portas”

“Introduction

Nuno Portas, always double…

Fernando Távora introduced Nuno Portas to a class of young first year students who were attending the architecture course at the then Porto School of Fine Arts (ESBAP), where I was a member. Távora’s passion for Bruno Zevi’s book Knowing how to see Architecture was known. By defending an idea of organic architecture, it gave foundation, depth and motivation to Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture – which Távora clearly identified as the master of masters who inhabited and helped to build his own idea of architecture.

Nuno Portas wrote the preface to the Portuguese edition of Zevi’s book History of Modern Architecture published in 1970 and then, years later, at Távora’s invitation – who recognised its importance, intelligence and knowledge – he wrote the preface to his book Da Organização do Espaço (1962), which ESBAP’s architecture course republished in a fac-simile version in 1982.

In his classes, Távora read parts or paragraphs of his books and of many other authors, poets, painters, artists, architects, actors, urban planners and writers, commenting and explaining their relevance and, above all, the need for architecture students to develop a comprehensive theoretical discourse capable of grounding the practice of drawing and design; and insisting that the architect is “a creator of happiness”, that architecture does not make projects, it makes works, acting on the plane of reality and not only on the plane of abstraction”.

That’s why we heard Távora say: “There can’t be a solid practice without a solid theory. We are tired of practitioners and what is needed is people with a solid theoretical training. The idea that an architect should be above all a wonderful pencil is an outdated idea, for there is no wonderful pencil without wonderful heads”. And, in harmony, we understand Portas when he says: “that it is no longer acceptable to reduce the concept of architecture to a technique of taste, the embellishment of landscapes, […] but that it should have for the project, a praxis, an objectification with a view to construction, acting on a plan which is that of making, and which is the only one by which architecture exists and if it doesn’t alienate in idealism or abstraction”.”

ISBN
978-989-98073-5-8

Edition
CIAMH

Year
2019

Number of pages
120

Dimensions
14,5x22cm

— New book from the collection “Conversas com Arquitectos”

No. 11 “Conversas com Arquitectos – Rui Braz”

“INTRODUCTION

Rui Braz Afonso, challenging meanings…

It’s Manuel Castells who reminds us that: ” The space isn’t a reflection of society, it’s society. Therefore the space forms, at least on our planet, are produced, like all other objects, by human action. They express and realise the interests of the dominant class according to a given mode of production and a specific mode of development. They express and implement the power relations of the state in a historically defined society… Finally, from time to time, social movements arise to challenge the meaning of the spatial structure and thus try new functions, new forms”…

The intricate web of knowledge that Rui Braz confronts us with, whenever we debate something with him, no matter how circumstantial, is a characteristic that has remained – now perhaps more refined, for its existence and for the enlargement to other disciplinary areas that it has been carrying out.

The intersection of other visions, of other paths, of other approaches, is always present in his way of seeing and being in the world. The constant search to widen frontiers and to bring in other subjects, showing that there are other possibilities to see and to solve everything that is approached and that nothing has only one fixed or stable point of view, seems to be one of the fundamental characteristics of Professor Rui Braz’s thinking and way of being.

To speak of a subject will always be, in his vision of the world, to speak of multiplicity, of divergence, of incoherence, of countless authors, of other characters, of cinema, of arts, of urbanism, of planning and of teachers, illustrious or anonymous men, but above all of life and of innovation, of desire too… Basically, there is in his discourse the permanent challenge of the will to mix and to create another and new vision – which is not a simple result of the assumptions with which the debate began…”.

Collection catalog

— Design to discomfort

The Pyros Collection is a project created to alert authorities to the importance of fire prevention. A set of “anti-design” pieces of furniture created from burnt wood.

In this sense, the environmental defence and conservation organisation will offer one of the pieces in the collection to João Pedro Matos Fernandes, Minister for the Environment and Climate Action. The aim is “to remind the authorities of the fires of 2019 and to encourage the government to create prevention measures, which will prevent major tragedies in the future, such as the 2017 fire in Pedrógão Grande, which killed 66 people.

The initiative was launched on the same day that the organisation published the Iberian Fire Report, which stresses that this means “investing in prevention on a global scale: fighting climate change, managing the territory, promoting profitable and less inflammable landscapes, reducing accidents and halting deforestation in the tropics.

View the complete catalog here > www.natureza-portugal.org.

— The collection / select to know more…

— Arquitetura e Saúde Mental – Sobre os espaços para o nosso futuro

Local: Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João
Data: 6 fevereiro 2019
Âmbito: Ciclo Conferências Arquitetura e Saúde Mental

— BIM e os grandes desafios na Engenharia – ISEP

Local: Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto
Data: 13 abril 2016
Âmbito: Grandes Desafios da Engenharia Civil