CAM-Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian reopened

Docomomo Portugal is happy to share that CAM-Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian reopened last 21st September 2024 after an extensive intervention and expansion by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. This work is the architect’s first completed project in Portugal. Conceived by British architect Sir Leslie Martin, the original building opened in 1983 to house one of the world’s most significant collections of modern and contemporary Portuguese art, being part of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Headquarters complex. CAM houses “a major open collection of almost 12,000 artworks spanning paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, prints, photographs and films by some of the country’s most…

Out now: HPA Journal issue – 1923-2023. Fernando Távora at 100

Docomomo Portugal is pleased to announce that the publication of a special issue of the HPA journal Histories of Postwar Architecture entitled “1923-2023. Fernando Távora at 100”, is now out. Edited by José António Bandeirinha, Antonio Esposito, Giovanni Leoni and Giovanni Bellucci it is a fitting tribute to a key Portuguese modern architect. The issue counts with an article by Prof. Ana Tostões, Docomomo Portugal Chair: “The Search for Eternity and the Polyphony Prodigy in Távora” along many other articles by Portuguese researchers and members of Docomomo Portugal. No. 11 (2022): 1923-2023. Fernando Távora at 100 DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2611-0075/v5-n11-2022

Exhibition Mais do que Casas / More than Housing

Docomomo Portugal is pleased to announce that next Friday, 27th September 2024 at 19H00 will be inaugurated the Exhibition “Mais do que Casas: Como vamos habitar em Abril 2074?” [More than Housing: How will we live on April 2074?] at MUDE in Lisbon. The Exhibition presented by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in partnership with MUDE shows results from the research by FAUP “More than Housing“, namely the research produced within the academic year 2023/2024 by students and professors from the Faculties of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Fine Arts in Portugal. The exhibition and all the…

Ana Tostões distinguished with the Médaille de la critique et des publications, Prix Académie d’Architecture 1965

Docomomo Portugal is honored to share that its president Ana Tostões was distinguished on 18th September 2024 with  the Médaille de la critique et des publications, Prix Académie d’Architecture 1965! This distinction by Académie d’Architecture is “awarded to personalities who have contributed to the enrichment of the architectural debate through their writings, publications or achievements”. The Académie d’Architecture aims to promote the quality of architecture and spatial planning and its teaching, the search for environmental improvement, the publication of opinions relating to questions of architecture and urbanism, and the research and conservation of archives on the history of architecture.

Álvaro Siza named Honorary Member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics

Docomomo Portugal is honored to share that the Portuguese Pritzker Prize architect Álvaro Siza was named Honorary Member of the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) on an award ceremony that took place at the Serralves Foundation last 6th May 2024. On the occasions press release: “The International Committee of Architectural Critics – CICA, cognizant of the profound impact that Álvaro Siza Vieira has had on the cultures in which his buildings are located and on generations of architects in Portugal and worldwide, has conferred on him the status of Honorary Member. This honor recognizes his unique ability to synthesize…

In the poster, a work by architect Olga Quintanilha in co-authorship with architect Filipe Jorge, Lar Académico de Stª Joana Princesa, Aveiro, 1992. Olga Quintanilha (1942-2005) was the first woman to chair the Association of Portuguese Architects and later also the first woman to chair the Order of Architects.
Open Call: Arquitectas da nossa casa

Within the aim of  celebrating the National Day of the Architect, which is celebrated on 3rd July, the Centro Regional Section of the Portuguese Order of Architects will hold the conference “Arquitectas da nossa casa” on 26 October 2024 to highlight the portuguese women architects. Therefore an open Call was launched and is open until 15 September, inviting all women architects with active membership of the Portuguese Order of Architects to present their projects, ideas, personal testimonies and professional career, under the terms and conditions set out in Article 2 of the respective regulations. The aim of this event is…

MUDE reopened last week

Docomomo Portugal is pleased to announce that MUDE (Design Museum), in Lisbon, reopened last week on 25 July, after 8 years of rehabilitation works. As reopening exhibition is featured until 31 October 2024 the exhibition “O Edifício em Exposição / The Building on Exhibition”. Directed by Bárbara Coutinho, Docomomo Portugal member and co-chair of Docomomo ISC/ID, since its creation in 2009, MUDE closed for extensive rehabilitation works in 2016 by architect Luís Miguel Saraiva. It is located in Lisbon’s historical center Baixa Pombalina, MUDE occupies an entire Pombaline Quarter, where previously were located the headquarters of the National Ultramarine Bank….

Call for Abstracts: TRANS-CARBON HABITAT – European Conference on Regenerative and Adaptative Habitat

The call for abstracts for the first European Conference on Regenerative and Adaptive Habitat TRANS-CARBON HABITAT is now open until 22 September 2024. Nature is recognized as an essential partner in the fight against climate change. Reversing the degradation of natural ecosystems is a fundamental part of the European Green Deal, which aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The natural and built environment, as a symbiotic ecosystem, is a central theme for adapting to the climate challenge and reducing carbon emissions, as well as for implementing strategies to regenerate our atmosphere and hydrosphere, our soil, our cities, and our…

Visits Cycle: A Nossa Casa – C.A.S.A. exhibition

As parallel programming of the C.A.S.A. (Collection, Álvaro Siza  Archive) exhibition, is taking place from 4-15 July 2024 the visits cycle “A Nossa Casa”, offering on-site visits to the projects on display in the Álvaro Siza Wing of the Serralves Foundation. Each work is presented by experts and/or even the owners, providing unique perspectives on its genesis, evolution and interior occupation. In this sort of anthropology of architectural space, not only the thoughts of Álvaro Siza are revealed, but also the intimacy of each person’s dwelling. This direct experience of the buildings will later be analyzed by the architect António…

José Forjaz (1936-2024)

It is with deep sadness that Docomomo Portugal communicates that the Portuguese architect José Forjaz passed away today, 25th June 2024. Docomomo Portugal wishes to convey the sincerest condolences at the passing of the renowned architect, to his family and friends. Born in Coimbra in 1936, José Forjaz went to Mozambique in 1952, where he finished the secondary school. He then studied architecture at the Porto School of Fine Arts [Escola de Belas Artes do Porto]. He did his first work in Portugal at the beginning of the 1960s, leaving for a master’s degree at Columbia University in New York…