The Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto are organizing a seminar –Architecture: Design and Research – for the current academic year.
This Friday:
30 April 2021
7:00 (Lisbon Time)
Luísa Bebiano – Architecture, Processes of creation
Synopsis
Designing in architecture is a creative, technical and ordering of ideas act. It is an organization system that determines a form, something concrete that is part of an essence. “The design process is based on a continuous game of feeling and reason.”
In this class, I will focus on two architectural works (a rehabilitation and a new construction) and their creative process in the development of the project. In parallel, the assembly of a visual narrative for cinema will be addressed.
Biographical Note
Luisa Bebiano (Coimbra, 1978) has had her own architecture studio since 2010, founded in the business incubator of Instituto Pedro Nunes. She develops architectural projects that relate her to theater and cinema, a thematic universe that is the basis of the research she is developing for her doctoral thesis at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Coimbra, with a time at the Polytechnic of Turin (Italy), she was distinguished with the Quartel Mestre General W. Elsden School Prize.
She started her activity as Art Director in 2009 in the team of director António Ferreira and her set design activity with João Mendes Ribeiro, with whom she worked as an intern for the Ordem dos Arquitetos.
Her work in the field of architecture is primarily focused on responding to various programs of various scales, with a greater focus on building rehabilitation.
She has been distinguished in competitions on completed works, namely: National Urban Rehabilitation Award (2017), Premis Fad (selected in 2013, 2015 and 2018), Diogo de Castilho Municipal Architecture Award (2019), Teotónio Pereira Award (2019) and Vilalva Prize (2019), awarded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
She frequently gives conferences and workshops as part of her transdisciplinary work. She was Guest Assistant at the University of Coimbra in 2020 in the ALA Masters – Architecture, Landscape, Archeology.
The Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto are organizing a seminar – Architecture: Design and Research – for the current academic year.
This friday:
23 April 2021
14:30 (Lisbon Time)
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen – The Past Voices of the Architectural Heritage in Finland: The Villa Mairea and the Finlandia Hall by Alvar Aalto and Aino Marsio Aalto
This lecture will discuss the problematic of architectural heritage including the questions of public memory and national heritage. The architectural case studies involve the Villa Mairea, a private villa from 1939 in Noormarkku, Finland, and the Finlandia Hall from 1971/1975 in Helsinki. The voices of authors include the architects Aino Marsio Aalto and Alvar Aalto.
The lecture asks what kind of a story will emerge when we research the biography of a building and try to explain why the building turned to be as it is now. Further questions concern the concepts of function/requirements; time; place; context (political, social, national, international); and the afterlife of a building, and how all these affect the story the research shall tell the audience today.
Biographical Note
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen has been working at the University of Helsinki as a set-term personal Professor and as an Acting Professor in Art History. She has also been a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the same university, and the Director of the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Art History. Her work on Finnish architecture and on the history of Art History has investigated the fringes of the professions and the problems of difficult heritage.
Her publications in English include: “Aino Marsio Aalto as a Creative Director”, in Artek and the Aaltos. Creating a Modern World. Edit. by Nina Strizler-Levine & Timo Riekko. Bard Graduate Center, New York 2016; “Negative Heritage in the History Culture of Finnish Art History”. National Values: Constructing Heritage, eds. Katarina MacLeod and Charlotte Bydler. Konsthistorisk Tidskrift Vol. 85, 3/2016; “Opus Con Amore – The Villa Mairea and the Culture of the Home”, in Inside the Villa Mairea. Art, Design and Interior Architecture. Edit. by Kirsi Gullichsen & Ulla Kinnunen. Alvar Aalto Museum & Mairea Foundation, Helsinki 2009; Aino and Alvar Aalto – A Shared Journey. Interpretations of an Everyday Modernism. Aalto Studies, Vol. 1. Alvar Aalto Foundation, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyväskylä 2007.
The Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto are organizing a seminar – Architecture: Design and Research – for the current academic year.
This friday:
16 April 2021
15:00 (Lisbon Time)
Georges – ” Machines Célibataires”
This seminar looks at certain aspects of technology, illustrating different features of modernity through the consideration of the body in its cultural and social space. Drawing inspiration from various sources, the students are led to rethink the schemas of architecture in terms of the environment for the neo-technical body. Beginning with the notion of “celibate machines”, the conference should lead to a critical reflection on the themes of the prosthetic body as presented by Sigfried Giedion.
Biographical Note
Georges Teyssot is Professor at Laval University’s School of Architecture, Quebec City (QC, CA). He is the author of many books, including Die Krankheit des Domizils (1989), The History of Garden Design (1991, 2000), and The American Lawn (1999). He has written the introduction to the volume of Diller + Scofidio, Flesh: Architectural Probes (1995, 2011). The University of Coimbra has translated and published an anthology of his essays in Portuguese: Da teoria de Arquitectura: doze ensaios (Lisbon, Edições 70, 2010). More recently, he has published a volume entitled A Topology of Everyday Constellations, (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013), of which he has edited the French version: Une topologie du quotidien, (Lausanne, CH: PPUR, 2016).
The Architecture Departments of Lusófona University of Lisbon and Oporto are organizing a seminar – Architecture: Design and Research – for the current academic year.
This week
9 April 2021,
14:30 (GMT)
Adrian Forty – “The Politics of Concrete”
Although widely presented as of universal benefit to mankind, concrete has also divided people. It has had a political dimension, which has taken different forms over the last century. Whether as the medium of a socialist Utopia, or as a factor in the politics of climate change, concrete has played a part in some of the major ideological positions of the last century. This talk looks at some of these, and considers some of the challenges presented in researching a global medium.
Biographical Note
Adrian Forty is Professor Emeritus of Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He is the author of Objects of Desire, Design and Society Since 1750 (1986), Words and Buildings, a Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (2000), and Concrete and Culture, a Material History (2012).
From 2010 to 2014 he was President of the European Architectural History Network.
Space Syntax goes 3D – Convex and Solid Void Analysis – The detailed analysis of public open space
José Nuno Beirão, graduated in architecture from FAUTL in 1989, the date from which he began to practice architecture, having been a founding member of the firm bquadrado arquitectos lda. (www.bquadrado.com). He completed his master’s thesis at ISCTE in 2005. The thesis is entitled: “Urban Grammars: for a flexible urban design methodology” and deals with an analytical study of design methods based on algorithms for obtaining urban plans endowed with greater flexibility as a response and a way of adapting to variations in assumptions.
In his doctoral thesis entitledCItyMaker: Designing Grammars for Urban Design completed in 2012 at TU Delft in the Netherlands, he further developed the concept by proposing a set of algorithms called ‘urban induction patterns’ described using the formalism of shape grammars ( Stiny and Gips, 1972). These are technically generic grammars applicable in the development of parametric urban models. The thesis presents the concept of City Information Modeling (CIM), which combines the development of parametric models and associated georeferenced information as the basis for an urban design with analytical support. Currently, he is exclusively dedicated to FAULisboa where he develops research related to the applications of CIM in urban planning and design.
His main interests are: data-based parametric urban design; algorithmic design; design systems; shape grammars; with special focus on the design of customizable systems (including housing systems). Computer media and digital manufacturing provide the tools that enable the development of advanced work within these areas of interest.
