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
..Monade x Da Ual, Lisboa
09.10.2024
Conferência por
João Gomes da Silva
no Da Ual, Lisboa
Seguido de conversa com
Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões e Ricardo Carvalho
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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 Casabella, Milan
20.03.2024
Conferencia de
João Gomes da Silva
no 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 FEP, Porto
07.03.2024
Lançamento e conversa em torno do livro com
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 Serralves, Porto
25.11.2023
Lançamento e conversa em torno do livro com
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
..Monade x maat / Fundação EDP, Lisboa
31.10.2023
Lançamento e conversa em torno do livro com
João Gomes da Silva, Aurora Carapinha, Daniela Sá, João Carmo Simões, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, João Pinharanda, Sérgio Mah....
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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.
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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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....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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Há um jogo segundo o qual, aberta a mão e afastados os dedos, se golpeiam sucessivamente os intervalos com uma navalha, cada vez mais rapidamente.
Um jogo perigoso. Assim é a arquitectura.
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?
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1. A arte não é mais para ser feita como mistério
2. Imaginar é saber como fazer
3. A Arquitectura destina-se ao fazer, não ao ver
4. A Natureza não é mãe
5. Cada um de nós começa tudo
6. O horror está na destruição da técnica
7. Você tem de se obrigar a dizer: “Eu sei!”. Se você não souber, quem sabe?
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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.
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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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Barry Bergdoll
But Nature for Siza is neither a metaphor for Enlightenment reason, nor of its child structural rationalism, as in Laugier. For Siza is as much interested in human nature which for him has as much to do with our inner being as with some higher disembodied reason.
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Monade x Columbia GSAPP
07.10.2021
Los Angeles 09:30
New York 12:30
Porto 17.30
Venice 18.30
Monade and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will celebrate the first English edition of “Imagining the Evident” with a conversation between Álvaro Siza, Francesco Dal Co, Kenneth Frampton, Barry Bergdoll, Peter Testa and Daniela Sá.
Broadcast live in www.monadebooks.com and www.arch.columbia.edu
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João Gomes da Silva
When my eyes got used to the raw light of the North Coast, I contemplated sand, concrete steps, water flats between rocks, and the immense sea with the waves battling in foam. I remember thinking an obviousness, the obviousness of what Architecture is, and how it builds the Landscape. This moment changed my life, at the exact moment when I started to become a Landscape Architect.
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Jonathan Sergison
More than any other architect I can think of, Álvaro Siza, has inspired me throughout my career. I first visited his buildings in Porto as a fourth-year student of architecture in 1987, although I had been aware of them throughout my studies. I was always profoundly moved by them, but they are buildings that have to been seen for their many qualities to be evident.
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Daniela Sá
When Arnold Schoenberg critiqued the work of Adolf Loos, he remarked that the possibility of invention, “was in the modes of intuition”, adding, “and this is the most noble origin of a work of art.” Banishing the idea of invention from that of novelty by forms appears to be as essential to Schoenberg in the early twentieth century as it is to Álvaro Siza, a century later.
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