— NUNO LACERDA LOPES Collection

“CNLL furniture is imbued with the most absurd theatricality, it is completely silly and yet useful, it is absolutely beautiful and therefore indispensable! They are entirely Cárlicos Nunásticos Lacérdicos e Lópzicos!”

Ricardo Pais, Stage Director

Excerpt

“The Thought and the Design”

Nuno Lacerda Lopes

“It is always difficult to talk about us when we look at a journey that we have been doing quickly and sentimentally. I say we went with the collective sense of who promotes the meeting and the debate of ideas that are always behind who builds or draws.

It seems to me fundamental this double issue when analysing the work I have been developing in the area of drawing, which is the discipline that tells me the most and with which I have the greatest and deepest connection.

As a basis of work for the creation and development of a drawing piece, whatever it may be, I always start with a sense of use and experience, of touch and use, and in this sense I perceive the references that are made to my work as carnal expressions of a way of life that I intend to fill, full of diverse experiences and participation. (…)”

Nuno Lacerda Lopes

— ZAPBOOK

“This book is part of a vision, of an introspetive collection of what we consider to be a collective witness of the moments and journeys around our work.

An approach to this gaze requires a pause, without beginning or end…

It’ s not a book of architecture… by moving away from disciplinary confrontations, by not demonstrating concepts, or following the path of pedagogy. Nor does it focus on working methods, nor on the debates generated, so it is not a book on architecture. It has only to do with people and ideas, those we have experienced over time.

Time is not linear and therefore some feeling seems to lead us to highlight certain points, which placed in sequence allow different readings, and it is these that unexpectedly go back and forth in thought.

However, it is not only a collection of images that replace memories, because experiences, emotions, battles, conquests and defeats, weaknesses and tiredness do not imprint themselves, nor are they likely to register – they are only fixed on knowledge, on a collective learning, which manifests itself in us.

Therefore, this book has neither beginning nor end… it reveals an ideal of sharing and a desire to consolidate a way of seeing and understanding”.

Nuno Lacerda Lopes

— NUNO LACERDA LOPES | ARQUITECTURAS

Excerpt

“CNLL – An acronym with architecture inside.

Prof. Arch. Manuel Correia Fernandes

“It is an almost unusual construction. Like a boat in the middle of an urban park. A huge side behind which one imagines an equally grandiose cavername and inside a world of things. On the front, on the arrival side, of course. the water. It’s true that that way can be read: a boat coming from no one knows where, lying there so that everyone can enter it. And we enter. Curiosity overcomes the desire to look at this “UFO” strangely made of wood as boats usually are and not spaceships!

An immense space welcomes a thousand and one suggestions grabbed and sub-structured among which we can walk. The first walk is a delight. Just like who walks through a scenery. That’s it! The suggestion, now, is that of a big stage box. An “emptiness” where a light flows that fills in a very calm way this “nothing” full of mystery that only the use can unveil. People, distended, absort or attentive figures, occupy the places that someone has destined for them. Others enter and leave. Of course. Like someone who breathes. The “object” has soul inside and mystery outside. It is a multiple suggestion for those who look at it and use it. It serves the purpose for which the Centro Multimeios de Espinho (1997-1999) was thought and made.