Pedro L E Ã O Neto
BIO / ENG
Pedro Leão Neto (Porto, Portugal, 1962) holds a Degree in Architecture at Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP, 1992), a Master’s degree in Urban Environment Planning and Design (FAUP, 1997) and a PhD in Planning and Landscape (University of Manchester, 2002). Concludes his Post-doctoral work "CONTEMPORARY VIEW ON PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE: DOCUMENTARY AND ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY MAPPING (FAUP, 2018).. Professor at FAUP since 2007 in the area of Architecture Communication and Photography he is responsible for the courses “Computer Architecture Aided Design” (CAAD) and “Photography of Architecture, City and Territory” (FACT). He has oriented and co-oriented several Master Thesis, PhD and curricular and professional internships. He is also the coordinator of the research group Centre for Communication and Spatial Representation (CCRE) integrated in FAUP´s R&D centre, director of the cultural association Cityscopio and the founder and editorial coordinator of scopio Editions and its open platform scopio network, which is a CCRE´s research-based editorial project focused on Documentary and Artistic Photography related with Architecture, City and Territory. He has curated several architectural photography exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, workshops and international debates and seminars around the universe of Architecture, Art and Image, being the founder and coordinator of international conferences On the Surface: Photography on Architecture, which last edition was held at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon. He is the author and editor of more than 30 books and Editorial Coordinator of Sophia peer review Journal specifically designed to address theoretical work on Architecture, Art and Image. He was the coordinator and Principal researcher (PR) of several national and international projects public funded, and he is currently the coordinator of “Visual spaces of Change” financed with 189.011,13€. He won the PRAXIS XXI, FCT 1998 fellowship and the Jens D rup E-Learning Award 2013, EUNIS as one of the coordinators of the first E-Learning Cafe in Porto.
BIO / PT
Pedro Leão Neto (Porto, 1962) é arquitecto licenciado pela Universidade do Porto (FAUP, 1992), mestre em Planeamento e Projecto do Ambiente Urbano (FAUP-FEUP, 1992), doutor em Planning and Landscape (Universidade de Manchester, 2002) e pós-doutorado com a investigação “Mapeamento de Fotografia Documental e Artística: Um olhar Contemporâneo sobre Arquitectura e Espaços de Referência no Porto (MFDA-ARP)” (FAUP, 2018) com orientação de Jorge Figueira e José Maças de Carvalho.
É Professor Auxiliar na Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto desde 2002 onde coordena o grupo de investigação CCRE, as edições SCOPIO e a plataforma scopio network. É desde 2010 director da Associação Cultural Cityscopio e desde 2018 coordenador do Laboratório AAi2Lab integrado no MIL – U.Porto Media Innovation Labs e Investigador Principal (PI) do projeto de Investigação Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (IC&DT) Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) referência POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030605, financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT/MECTES e cofinanciado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do COMPETE – Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI). A sua actividade docente centra-se, desde 2007 na regência das unidades curriculares de Fotografia de Arquitectura, Cidade e Território (FACT) e Projecto de Arquitectura Assistido por Computador (CAAD) I e II.
O seu campo de investigação em Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI) está ligado de forma significativa às Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) e à docência através dos diversos conteúdos desenvolvidos, das plataformas colaborativas e E-Learning. Sobre estes temas publicou e editou mais de 30 livros e mais de 100 artigos científicos, com mais de 90 citações scholar Google, dos quais se destacam como autor 3 artigos SCOPUS com 14 citações e 6 softwares. Foi investigador responsável por 5 projectos de Investigação financiados por fundos competitivos, organizou 5 conferências Internacionais com artigos revistos por pares com actas publicadas, foi curador de 25 exposições e 10 concursos internacionais. Participou ainda em 93 júris, 20 comités científicos e 16 palestras por convite algumas das quais em diversas universidades Europeias.
Em 1998 recebeu o prémio PRAXIS XXI, FCT 1998 fellowship, em 2013 foi atribuído o Jens D rup E-Learning Award, EUNIS pela implementação do projeto e programa do 1º E-Learning Café da U. Porto do qual foi um dos responsáveis máximo: coordenador da concepção e construção do E-Learning Café.
Address: Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso 215, 4150-564 Porto
Pedro Leão Neto (Porto, Portugal, 1962) holds a Degree in Architecture at Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP, 1992), a Master’s degree in Urban Environment Planning and Design (FAUP, 1997) and a PhD in Planning and Landscape (University of Manchester, 2002). Concludes his Post-doctoral work "CONTEMPORARY VIEW ON PORTUGUESE ARCHITECTURE: DOCUMENTARY AND ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY MAPPING (FAUP, 2018).. Professor at FAUP since 2007 in the area of Architecture Communication and Photography he is responsible for the courses “Computer Architecture Aided Design” (CAAD) and “Photography of Architecture, City and Territory” (FACT). He has oriented and co-oriented several Master Thesis, PhD and curricular and professional internships. He is also the coordinator of the research group Centre for Communication and Spatial Representation (CCRE) integrated in FAUP´s R&D centre, director of the cultural association Cityscopio and the founder and editorial coordinator of scopio Editions and its open platform scopio network, which is a CCRE´s research-based editorial project focused on Documentary and Artistic Photography related with Architecture, City and Territory. He has curated several architectural photography exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, workshops and international debates and seminars around the universe of Architecture, Art and Image, being the founder and coordinator of international conferences On the Surface: Photography on Architecture, which last edition was held at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT), Lisbon. He is the author and editor of more than 30 books and Editorial Coordinator of Sophia peer review Journal specifically designed to address theoretical work on Architecture, Art and Image. He was the coordinator and Principal researcher (PR) of several national and international projects public funded, and he is currently the coordinator of “Visual spaces of Change” financed with 189.011,13€. He won the PRAXIS XXI, FCT 1998 fellowship and the Jens D rup E-Learning Award 2013, EUNIS as one of the coordinators of the first E-Learning Cafe in Porto.
BIO / PT
Pedro Leão Neto (Porto, 1962) é arquitecto licenciado pela Universidade do Porto (FAUP, 1992), mestre em Planeamento e Projecto do Ambiente Urbano (FAUP-FEUP, 1992), doutor em Planning and Landscape (Universidade de Manchester, 2002) e pós-doutorado com a investigação “Mapeamento de Fotografia Documental e Artística: Um olhar Contemporâneo sobre Arquitectura e Espaços de Referência no Porto (MFDA-ARP)” (FAUP, 2018) com orientação de Jorge Figueira e José Maças de Carvalho.
É Professor Auxiliar na Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto desde 2002 onde coordena o grupo de investigação CCRE, as edições SCOPIO e a plataforma scopio network. É desde 2010 director da Associação Cultural Cityscopio e desde 2018 coordenador do Laboratório AAi2Lab integrado no MIL – U.Porto Media Innovation Labs e Investigador Principal (PI) do projeto de Investigação Científica e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (IC&DT) Visual Spaces of Change (VSC) referência POCI-01-0145-FEDER-030605, financiado por fundos nacionais através da FCT/MECTES e cofinanciado pelo Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER) através do COMPETE – Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (POCI). A sua actividade docente centra-se, desde 2007 na regência das unidades curriculares de Fotografia de Arquitectura, Cidade e Território (FACT) e Projecto de Arquitectura Assistido por Computador (CAAD) I e II.
O seu campo de investigação em Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI) está ligado de forma significativa às Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) e à docência através dos diversos conteúdos desenvolvidos, das plataformas colaborativas e E-Learning. Sobre estes temas publicou e editou mais de 30 livros e mais de 100 artigos científicos, com mais de 90 citações scholar Google, dos quais se destacam como autor 3 artigos SCOPUS com 14 citações e 6 softwares. Foi investigador responsável por 5 projectos de Investigação financiados por fundos competitivos, organizou 5 conferências Internacionais com artigos revistos por pares com actas publicadas, foi curador de 25 exposições e 10 concursos internacionais. Participou ainda em 93 júris, 20 comités científicos e 16 palestras por convite algumas das quais em diversas universidades Europeias.
Em 1998 recebeu o prémio PRAXIS XXI, FCT 1998 fellowship, em 2013 foi atribuído o Jens D rup E-Learning Award, EUNIS pela implementação do projeto e programa do 1º E-Learning Café da U. Porto do qual foi um dos responsáveis máximo: coordenador da concepção e construção do E-Learning Café.
Address: Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade do Porto
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This paper synthetizes theoretical aspects of photography related to architecture, city and territory, as well as the case studies coming from the research project Visual Spaces of Change, focusingon the use of photography to investigate the
dynamics of architecture and urban change. The project proposed to engage researchers and artists from the fields of architecture, art and image in the creation of visual narratives that promote a new understanding about architectureas well as public debates on urban change in the Porto Metropolitan
Area.The methodological framework adopted was designed with special attention to the multidisciplinarycharacter of this project, complementing each other and putting in relation the various aspects covered within this integrative approach regarding Architecture, City and Territory. Thus, the research implied, for the first case study, promoting a series of open talks, public presentations andexhibitions of contemporary photography projects related to the subjects of Architecture, City and Territory during the years of 2019 and 2020 on several public spaces and Metro Stations of OportoCity. These initiatives intended to broaden the discussion about how architecture transforms and istransformed by trends and ways of living, using as its subject of study Porto’s Metropolitan Area andthe results from this case study had as base the several impressions from the audience collected through qualitative survey. For the second case study, a pedagogical experiment was taken that builds up on previous research combining blended learning and e-learning with visual research methods and photographic that enabled students to manage the whole process of conception, development and implementation of photography projects in a collaborative learning environment. The results from this
case study had as base the several impressions from the students collected through quantitative and qualitative survey.
The potential of visual methods for communicating the identity and transformation of architectures and public spaces are made clear through the discussion of photography (including its uses, methods and approaches) as a valuable research
tool and technique to disseminate architecture and public space problematics in contemporary cities. The paper presents the results of the qualitative survey made to the audience of four site-specific exhibitions comprehending visual narratives produced in the context of the research project, as well as the survey made to students ofArchitecture from third year (1ºcycle) in the Faculty of Architecture of
University of Porto (FAUP).
2nd AE International Symposium, IKU Department of Architecture
March 24-25, 2022
Pedro Leão Neto and Ana Miriam Rebelo
Abstract link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WTsoia_yMLP-d7nIqaBUp6ySbRpR-U0d/view
The text describes a collaborative and dynamic environment allowing for an informed appraisal of architecture and city space, understanding the diverse forms of its appropriation and giving the students the possibility to participate in the discussion of the transformation of these territories.
The teaching process adopted encourages the interaction between teachers, researchers and students, leading to a dynamic of discovery built collectively, establishing relationships and connections between the people and institutions of academia involved and the general public. All this favours a dialogical learning process, exploring the multifaceted richness of the territories under study and the way in which public spaces are transformed and architecture is designed.
It will be shown the significant connection that is established between the CUs and the research focused on Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) which is the nuclear universe of all the research developed in the AAI research group, where several of the pedagogical actions of the CUS are linked to.
It is believed that this articulation between CUs and research coming from R&D project teams reinforces and provides conditions to stimulate the beginning of activities related with investigation, as well as the development of students’ critical reflexive competences, creativity and autonomy. Moreover, we also ensure that the articulated work of the CUs with research is open to various national and international teaching and research institutions, as well as to civil society.
Plataforma Sophia Journal OJS
https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/sophia/announcement/view/9
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BOOKS / EDITED BOOKS by Pedro L E Ã O Neto
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
This paper synthetizes theoretical aspects of photography related to architecture, city and territory, as well as the case studies coming from the research project Visual Spaces of Change, focusingon the use of photography to investigate the
dynamics of architecture and urban change. The project proposed to engage researchers and artists from the fields of architecture, art and image in the creation of visual narratives that promote a new understanding about architectureas well as public debates on urban change in the Porto Metropolitan
Area.The methodological framework adopted was designed with special attention to the multidisciplinarycharacter of this project, complementing each other and putting in relation the various aspects covered within this integrative approach regarding Architecture, City and Territory. Thus, the research implied, for the first case study, promoting a series of open talks, public presentations andexhibitions of contemporary photography projects related to the subjects of Architecture, City and Territory during the years of 2019 and 2020 on several public spaces and Metro Stations of OportoCity. These initiatives intended to broaden the discussion about how architecture transforms and istransformed by trends and ways of living, using as its subject of study Porto’s Metropolitan Area andthe results from this case study had as base the several impressions from the audience collected through qualitative survey. For the second case study, a pedagogical experiment was taken that builds up on previous research combining blended learning and e-learning with visual research methods and photographic that enabled students to manage the whole process of conception, development and implementation of photography projects in a collaborative learning environment. The results from this
case study had as base the several impressions from the students collected through quantitative and qualitative survey.
The potential of visual methods for communicating the identity and transformation of architectures and public spaces are made clear through the discussion of photography (including its uses, methods and approaches) as a valuable research
tool and technique to disseminate architecture and public space problematics in contemporary cities. The paper presents the results of the qualitative survey made to the audience of four site-specific exhibitions comprehending visual narratives produced in the context of the research project, as well as the survey made to students ofArchitecture from third year (1ºcycle) in the Faculty of Architecture of
University of Porto (FAUP).
2nd AE International Symposium, IKU Department of Architecture
March 24-25, 2022
Pedro Leão Neto and Ana Miriam Rebelo
Abstract link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WTsoia_yMLP-d7nIqaBUp6ySbRpR-U0d/view
The text describes a collaborative and dynamic environment allowing for an informed appraisal of architecture and city space, understanding the diverse forms of its appropriation and giving the students the possibility to participate in the discussion of the transformation of these territories.
The teaching process adopted encourages the interaction between teachers, researchers and students, leading to a dynamic of discovery built collectively, establishing relationships and connections between the people and institutions of academia involved and the general public. All this favours a dialogical learning process, exploring the multifaceted richness of the territories under study and the way in which public spaces are transformed and architecture is designed.
It will be shown the significant connection that is established between the CUs and the research focused on Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) which is the nuclear universe of all the research developed in the AAI research group, where several of the pedagogical actions of the CUS are linked to.
It is believed that this articulation between CUs and research coming from R&D project teams reinforces and provides conditions to stimulate the beginning of activities related with investigation, as well as the development of students’ critical reflexive competences, creativity and autonomy. Moreover, we also ensure that the articulated work of the CUs with research is open to various national and international teaching and research institutions, as well as to civil society.
Plataforma Sophia Journal OJS
https://www.up.pt/revistas/index.php/sophia/announcement/view/9
facebook : https://www.facebook.com/sophia.journal0/photos/a.116347464125064/116347387458405/
instagram : https://www.instagram.com/p/CUVD96tKiSr/
twitter : https://twitter.com/sophia_journal/status/1442504380046000128
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
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We are interested in works that: 1) reveal the potential of Image as a medium capable of crossing borders and dislocating boundaries between different Architectural and Artistic subject areas; 2) are inspired by broad notions of creativity, innovation, and cybernetics as drivers of social and institutional co-evolution processes; 3) explore the potential of the world of Utopia and Image to inventively question and address cross-cutting problems affecting Architecture, Art and Image. Although we welcome individual works, we encourage the creation of multidisciplinary teams.
Elke Krasny1
“(...) architects have no time to lose to work on alternative models that offer paths to reach social equity within the continued intense metropolitanization of settlement structures. Given the changing nature of societies, more differentiated forms of cohabitation; greater demand for closer spatial relations of work-living-recreation; the renewal of urban farming; decentralized forms of harvesting renewable energy; leaner and smaller production facilities; all these transformations should lead to a change in the conventional zoning of uses; to a search for building and urban typologies that may be grafted on as much as possible to existing fabric and that will
yet liberate future generations from the burden of the suburban era.”
Wilfried Wang2
With this 7th Volume of Sophia Journal we initiate our third thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care”, addressing contemporary photography and visual practices that focus on how architecture understood in a wide sense can help to heal a broken planet3. The concept of landscapes of care has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts and architecture4. It allows us to understand architecture, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms5, constituted by multifaceted landscapes with complex social and organisational spatialities6, as well as exploring the concepts of space and place for care within a transdisciplinary research environment7.
Significant changes are taking place in diverse physical spaces all around the world and the world is growing in complexity as Daniel Innerarity8 points out. For this complex world of post-politics ideals, we need ambitious visions for the future and at the same time to trigger operational paths that are able to reform society, in a creative and collaborative manner, towards a better world.
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References
Elke Krasny, “Architecture and Care,” in Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, edited by Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny and Architekturzentrum Wien, 0 (2019) The MIT Press, 33.
Wilfried Wang, On the Increasing Irrelevance of Context in the Generation of Form; or, why there is no longer a difference between an urn and a chamber pot, Specificity, OASE, (2008) (76), 91–105, Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/ en/Issues/76/OnTheIncreasingIrrelevanceOfContextInTheGenerationOfForm
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Image, Body and Territory ensures the specificity of Sophia´s number that presents articles and other texts focused in unfolding the processes of thought present in photographic, filmic, or other works engaged with image and image making, that explore the notions of Body and Territory or use them as their own expressive matters. Diverse aspects are explored as, for example, Peirce’s notion of index, or how certain contemporary gazes can be linked to the New Topographics landscape aesthetics.
The Aura of the Image ensures the specificity of Sophia´s number that presents articles which have as one of their most significant reference Walter Benjamin and his concept of “the aura” for explaining how photography has transformed the relation between the image and its beholder, as well as addressing the idea of “the tiny spark of contingency”.
Pedro Leão Neto
This 3rd number of Sophia1 from the series Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries, with the theme “Image, Body and Territory”, has as invited Editor Iñaki Bergera, who is an invaluable author and collaborator of the editorial project scopio Editions since its first years of existence.
This publication has three major peer-reviewed essays, where its authors challenge our
understanding on issues related with the theme “Image, Body and Territory” and where
photography practice and discipline is always significantly present. Introducing the notion of a vernacular of economic growth, Kallen McNamara borrows the eyes of Gavin Brown in order to uncover aspects of our daily urban environment that are culturally out of focus, but may be more expressive of our contemporary world than we might like to admit. Her essay is a significant exploration of how a subjective gaze of a particular author, in this case Gavin Brown, is used to critically read in a meaningful manner various aspects of the most conventional and banal aspects of the contemporary urban reality of the city of Houstan. Kallen also makes an interesting creative link between Gavin Brown´s contemporary gaze and the New Topographics landscape aesthetics, which had a significant effect on photography universe, not only in the United States, but in Europe and, as Kallen bring to light, is an aesthetics still influencing contemporary photographers, as happens in the case of Gavin Brown.
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Editorial
Bodies and territory: visual footprints of our inhabited built world
Iñaki Bergera
In recent times, the complexity —and rich potentialities— of our contemporary world is being fruitfully described and depicted by photographers and visual artists. The interest of urban landscape at large, understood as the natural scenario of our contemporaneity, expands its borders and boundaries towards a more intricate appraisal of the territory and our physical (body) and conceptual (inhabitant) relationship with it. As the following papers explore, it is not just a matter of arranging a visual report —from a documentary perspective— of the space we live in but, rather, interpret and suggest the threats and opportunities that our personal dialog with the territory implies. As every negotiation, this conversation implies mediation, a pulse between a desired natural balance and the dramatic and unconscious footprints of our human action. Our presence —passive or active, spiritual and fleshly— is no more innocuous. By being at and dwelling the territory, the place gains the constrictions of an often contradictory conciliation. It is there where a thrilling visual narrative emerges, where the accurate and sensible eye of the visual artist finds a highly potential field of exploration and complaint.
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Visual Spaces of Change is an interdisciplinary research project combining contemporary photography and visual documentation with georeferencing and new technologies This project investigates the creation of a network of public and collective spaces capable of catalysing emerging dynamics of urban change in the Porto Metropolitan Region (AMP).
The territory is simultaneously used as a laboratory for empirical experimentation and stage for visual representation of, and for, its agents and urban change processes. The project aims to alter public perceptions about the transformation of public space and collectively transforming imaginings of the city by articulating material and immaterial resources, which provide more visibility to existing urban change dynamics. The strategy for promoting this articulation includes the development of online facilities for virtual interactions at multiple scales, including a digital platform with georeferenced visual data in temporal layers allowing for the accessibility, diffusion, monitoring, and sharing of visual information. This platform promotes an active dialogue between researchers, local institutions and general public, while contributing to the identification of opportunities for cooperation between citizens, institutions, and the urban environment.
The project draws on broad conceptions of creativity and innovation as driving forces for social and institutional cooperation processes, exploring the potential of photography to question imaginatively and address issues that are transversal to the interdisciplinary debate on architecture, art, city and territory. The project intends to develop tools for a greater integration between emerging sociocultural dynamics in alternative spaces of public participation, institutionalized artistic spaces and the cultural, architectural and environmental heritage in Porto Metropolitan Region (AMP).
Visual Spaces of Change proposes a visual communication strategy based on the development of contemporary photography projects that reflect upon different dynamics of urban change to open new horizons of public intervention in the public space. These projects are conceived as “visual narratives” of these dynamics, intentionally interfering with the metropolitan territory in a self-reflexive representation of its own process of change, reducing the distance between the objects of investigation (landscapes, places, public and collective spaces) and their representations. At the same time, the creative content resulting from this research process is integrated into a visual data online platform, which allows for different levels of interaction between these contents and the general public. Departing from the identification of new dynamics of social change related to marginal productions in the field of art and culture, the project seeks to favour the integration of new cultural identities, incorporating emerging artistic expressions in relation to the public and collective spaces where these dynamics take place, stimulating their interaction at different scales.
The project proposes the potential of architecture, art, city and territory to give visibility to new spaces of public and collective interest. The project’s online platform reinforces this potential, providing a digital support for greater interaction among its audience, constituting a horizontal network of communication between artistic institutions and the public in general. All this provides a basis for visual information that is meant to be expanded beyond the scope of this project, and whose contents can serve to discover new routes and visions of the city, offering different levels of cultural information about public space and territory.
This International Conference integrates the thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care”, addressing contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture understood in a wide sense can help to heal a broken planet. The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts, architecture and heritage preservation. It is used here in order to understand and document modern architecture, building, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, as well as heritage resources for global sustainability.
Modern architecture is a ‘heritage at risk’ as it belongs to a recent past that has not yet been sufficiently recognised by the authorities, scholars and general public. Our aim is to explore the ways in which photography and film can be used as meaningful instruments of research into the socioeconomic, political, historical, technical and ecological dimensions of modern architecture, city and territory.
Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage invited theoretical and field work where architectural photography and filmmaking are descriptive, analytical and interpretive, communicating original perceptions and new understandings of modern architecture and landscapes. Photography and film projects that will allow us to show how modern buildings and landscapes have responded to and reflect the local conditions of their production and importance. Projects which critique and expand our understanding of what constitutes modern architecture and landscape, in terms of its language, locations, functions, creators, patrons and publics.
Photography and film work that can allow us to see the social dimension of architecture and landscape, to understand architecture as Alvar Aalto did, “as a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions” to contribute to a greater understanding of modern architecture’s and landscape’s potential for a more ecological and sustainable balance and interplay between architecture and nature.
Organised by: Pedro Leão Neto, Hugh Campbell, Mark Durden, Teresa Ferreira, João Leal, Rikke Munck Petersen and Igea Troiani
DATE
15 and 16 September 2023
PLACE
The Conference will be held in person at FAUP (Auditorium Fernando Távora) on the 15th and 16th of September and online.
In this call for papers and visual essays for this 8th issue of Sophia Journal- Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage– we invite theoretical and field work where architectural photography and filmmaking are descriptive, analytical and interpretive, communicating original perceptions and new understandings of modern architecture and landscapes. Photography and film projects that will allow us to show how modern buildings and landscapes have responded to and reflect the local conditions of their production and importance. Projects which critique and expand our understanding of what constitutes modern architecture and landscape, in terms of its language, locations, functions, creators, patrons and publics.
Photography and film work that can allow us to see the social dimension of architecture and landscape, to understand architecture as Alvar Aalto did, “as a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions” together with Donna Haraway’s focus on human and non-human interplay — new “naturecultures” to contribute to a greater understanding of modern architecture’s and landscape’s potential for a more ecological and sustainable balance and interplay between architecture and nature.
About Sophia Journal
Sophia Journal is an academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.
Created in 2016, Sophia Journal publishes theoretical articles and visual essays that investigate and think critically the intersections between the image and architecture. We understand both terms in a wide sense: the image of photography, painting, drawing, cinema, video, T.V., new media; architecture as landscape, territory, city, spatiality and built environment.
Os autores seleccionados serão notificados até 1 de Fevereiro de 2023
Prazo de entrega dos manuscritos (Conferência): 1 de Maio de 2023
Conferência Internacional (dtbc): Junho 2023
Prazo de entrega dos manuscritos (Revista): 5 de Setembro de 2023
Data de publicação (tbc): até Dezembro de 2023
Sophia Journal está actualmente a aceitar submissões para o seu terceiro ciclo temático Landscapes of Care, abordando práticas fotográficas e visuais contemporâneas que se preocupam sobre o modo como a arquitectura, entendida num sentido amplo, pode ajudar a curar as relações entre o homem e a natureza, bem como a crise sócio-ambiental em que o planeta vive.
O conceito de Landscapes of Care tem sido cada vez mais adoptado em diversas áreas do conhecimento, desde a geografia da saúde até às artes e arquitectura, assim como na preservação do património. Neste call interessam-nos práticas visuais que nos ajudem a compreender e documentar a arquitectura moderna e a sua construção e reabilitação, como também a percecionar a cidade e o território como organismos vivos e inclusivos e a reconhecer a importância dos recursos patrimoniais para a sustentabilidade global.
A arquitectura moderna é um "património em risco", pois pertence a um passado recente que ainda não foi suficientemente reconhecido quer pelas autoridades quer por parte de muitos investigadores e do público em geral. O nosso objectivo é explorar de que modo a fotografia e o filme podem ser utilizados como instrumentos significativos de investigação nas dimensões socioeconómica, política, histórica, técnica e ecológica da arquitectura moderna, da cidade e do território.
Nesta convocatória de artigos e ensaios visuais para este número da revista Sophia Journal Vol. 8 | Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage - convidamos os autores a submeterem trabalhos teóricos e ensaios visuais sobre arquitetura moderna onde a fotografia e o filme estão presentes de forma significativa. Projetos descritivos, analíticos e interpretativos, capazes de oferecer uma percepção única e um novo entendimento sobre a arquitectura do moderno, bem como esta foi muitas vezes capaz de responder e reflectir as condições locais da sua produção. Projectos que são territórios críticos capazes de expandir a nossa compreensão sobre a arquitectura e paisagem do moderno, em termos da sua linguagem, localizações, funções, criadores, patronos e públicos.
Interessam-nos trabalhos fotográficos e cinematográficos que nos permitam reconhecer a dimensão social da arquitectura e da paisagem e compreender a arquitectura como fez Alvar Aalto, “as a great synthetic process of combining thousands of definite human functions” juntamente com o enfoque de Donna Haraway na interacção humana e não humana - novas "naturecultures" capazes de contribuir para uma maior compreensão do potencial da arquitectura e da paisagem do moderno para um equilíbrio e uma interacção mais ecológica e sustentável entre a arquitectura e a natureza.
Algumas questões de interesse que podem ser tidas em conta ao responder a esta chamada:
De que modo a fotografia e o cinema podem ser utilizados para comunicar o tipo de relacionamento existente entre as formas da paisagem e arquitetura moderna e os programas de arquitetura contemporânea e sua apropriação pública
De que modo a fotografia e o cinema conseguem oferecer uma perspetiva crítica e poética sobre o mundo atual que habitamos e trazer uma nova compreensão acerca da da paisagem e arquitetura moderna no espaço urbano contemporâneo, bem como documentar o seu significado cultural e os seus valores patrimoniais
De que modo a fotografia e o cinema podem ser utilizados para comunicar a forma como a paisagem e arquitetura moderna se relacionam ou confrontam com os programas de projeto urbano, arquitetura e os espaços públicos e a sua apropriação na contemporaneidade
De que modo a fotografia e o filme podem comunicar ideias nucleares sobre uma determinada arquitectura, alterando dessa forma a nossa percepção sobre esses espaços arquitetónicos
De que modo a fotografia e o filme podem ser utilizados para a identificação e o registo da transformação de um local, ou mesmo 'desbloquear' essa possibilidade - ou seja, de edifícios, paisagens e lugares poderem ser objetos de um processo de reabilitação
De que modo a fotografia e o filme podem ser utilizados em estudos diacrónicos sobre a paisagem e arquitectura moderna, ou seja, estudos sequenciais centrados nos padrões de actividades e dos fenómenos que caracterizam esses espaços, bem como nas alterações sociais, culturais e formais que aí ocorrem ao longo de diferentes lapsos de tempo
Séries fotográficas e fílmicas que se centram na experiência perceptiva, sensorial e afectiva da paisagem e arquitectura moderna na contemporaneidade.
Sobre a Sophia Journal
A Sophia Journal é uma revista académica de acesso aberto com arbitragem científica, publicada pelo Centro de Estudos em Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU) - Grupo de investigação Arquitectura, Arte e Imagem (AAI) da Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP), em colaboração com a associação Cityscopio e a sua chancela editorial scopio Editions.
Criada em 2016, a Sophia Journal publica artigos teóricos e ensaios visuais que investigam e pensam criticamente as intersecções entre a imagem e a arquitectura. Entendemos ambos os termos em sentido lato: a imagem da fotografia, pintura, desenho, cinema, video, televisão, novos media; a arquitectura enquanto paisagem, território, cidade, espacialidade e ambiente construído.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
Thus, the following peer reviewed articles discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit- places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them.
Preserving heritage through new narratives: designing a guesthouse within a cross-disciplinary team from Pedro Bandeira Maia and Raul Pinto discusses a very demanding design program of transformation of an interior space from a former pharmacy to a guest house in a historical building from the nineteenth century. The article exposes the methodology followed by a cross disciplinary team debating the project’s narrative illustrated with very expressive images.
The role of architecture in an engaging and meaningful experience of the physical exhibition from Bárbara Coutinho and Ana Tostões evolves from the main argument that the physical exhibition is the immediate way to encounter the arts in line with the phenomenological understanding of the aesthetic experience. It recalls the inspiring role of exhibition designs of Frederick Kiesler, Franco Albini and Lina Bo Bardi as examples to contrast with the growing process of digitalisation and dematerialisation of the involvement with art. Authors address then the reasons why for contemporary times it is important that an exhibition is designed to be a physical matter between spectators and art.
The need for Shelter. Laugier, Ledoux, and Enlightenment’s shadows from Rui Aristides and José António Bandeirinha discourses about the human need for shelter as the essence that defines the discipline of architecture. This approach is developed within an historical framework, namely referring the legacy of Laugier and Ledoux intertwined with philosophical and political issues.Based upon these reasoning, the authors go further and tackle the architecture’s role regarding shelter in contemporary times.
Other sections besides the peer reviewed articles have been integrated into the journal’s structure as a way of enrichening the publication with diverse viewpoints from experts in the field and other types of readings apart from the articles from the call.
Thus, we present in Featured Texts the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed.
In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light.
Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors.
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