— BUILDING TO EDUCATE

“An often quoted Swedish saying goes as follows: “A child has three teachers: the first teacher is the other children, the second teacher is the teacher, and the third teacher is the room.” Students learn best where learning is interesting and fun – so the standards required for school construction are equally high. The continual development of educational concepts and new didactic approaches are changing everyday life in schools and, with it, the functional and aesthetic qualities of this building task. Classrooms and public areas both inside and outside are becoming increasingly flexible and multifunctional. They offer opportunities to retreat for individualized learning and zones of concentrated work, as well as open space landscapes for inter-year mingling and self-organized group activities. The school projects presented in this volume show how contemporary pedagogical concepts are translated into compelling and very diverse architectural solutions.”

— NUNO LACERDA LOPES 1+1

The architect Nuno Lacerda Lopes was invited to participate in the Uzina Books 1 + 1 Collection with two works by CNLL, the school of Mouriz and the Casa Valongo.

The 1 + 1 Collection aims to disseminate to the general public, current references of Portuguese architecture and other related areas such as design or illustration. In these small format editions, where the layout intends to be direct in communication, we contemplate five distinct pieces in the presentation of each work: Text/intentions of the author; Concept; Construction; Work and Technical Drawings of the project.

The 1 + 1 Collection already has names like Guedes + De Campos, Aires Mateus, Bak Gordon, Graça Dias + Egas Vieira, Jorge Mealha, Nuno Sampaio and Ricardo Vieira de Melo.

Excerpt

“(…) A rigorous metrics served as the basis for the design of the interior, resulting in regular and orthogonal spaces where the uneven windows stand out, creating games of light, making the spaces more dynamic. The classroom thus gains a new dimension, ceasing to be an austere and inflexible space, being here a space of creativity and imagination, which is intended to be versatile and above all polyvalent. The movement created by the roof extends into the interior, infecting the spaces with its language materialized in unevenness and great differences in height, always resulting in diverse and distinct spaces. (…)”

Nuno Lacerda Lopes

— ARCHINEWS 29

A quarterly magazine, with an essentially monographic character, it divulges the life and work of national architects, constituting an editorial reference for professionals and students in the fields of architecture, urbanism, interiors and design.

Editorial

“Design and ways of living”

“Nuno Lacerda Lopes has been researching since 1986 on the “Design and Ways of Living”, an area in which the School of Oporto has asserted itself through the conception of architectural space, in its design, construction and in the different ways of living that contemporaneity shows.

The interaction and polyvalence appear as fundamental principles in the creation and projectual innovation, considering that art and science are not watertight, and that the contribution of other areas of knowledge and respective methodologies may constitute creative and qualification material, which establish in this model or ideal of organization a method for productive efficiency.

This Contemporary Architecture, with Holistic Vision, is based on man as the central figure of the built space, in an eternal appeal to the senses and a persistent and irreverent will to experiment and search for different materials, forms and concepts”.

Professor Doutor Arquiteto Carlos Alho,

Diretor Archinews

— A SENSE OF SENSUALITY

“Carlos Nuno Lacerda Lopes stands out in the lively and modern scene of Portuguese architecture for the maturity of his projects and his special awareness of shapes and materials. His works show a constant attention to the designed stylistic resources in order to provide the most direct way to incorporate structural and functional characteristics, and as such, perfectly defined as part of an open approach to modern values that effectively date back to ancient times”.

— RUMO À PROFISSÃO

“ROUTE TO THE PROFESSION” has been written, not only for those who have finished the course but also for all those who seek to start a professional activity at their own risk.

This book seeks to make known some of the essential aspects that the creative professional needs beyond technical skills, so that these creative and brilliant minds are not lost in the sea of difficulties and barriers that systematically place us; How often by precarious assessments and above all by a lack of planning and commitment to a fundamental aspect that is to know how to sell, to search to sell and above all to be able to sell their services, their skills… their professional abilities.

The structure of the book is based on two parts, one that is related to the understanding of the activity after higher education, the other that explores the activity and characterization of the entrepreneur in the area of creative industries, from architecture, design, engineering, photography to communication.

It is organized in twelve points that are considered fundamental to understand the phenomena and processes of transformation that can lead anyone to continue investing in himself, either through the creation of a new company or the search for a salaried job, but communicating and valuing all its potential and demonstrating its true personal and professional capabilities. This is, in fact, our greatest goal so that there is no need to shout:

“HELP, I’VE FINISHED THE COURSE!”