Alfredo Matos Ferreira Information System


Alfredo Matos Ferreira, Overseer´s House - Joanamigo Farm, Barca d´Alva, [1950]. photograph by AMF.

Alfredo Matos Ferreira (1928-2015), whose father was a doctor and whose mother was a painter, was born in Lisbon, but his roots, for family reasons, are deeply entrenched in Trás-os-Montes, a circumstance which guided him decisively as a person, and marked him with emotions and affections, convictions and values in life. An architect trained at the Porto School of Fine Arts, he was a fellow-student with Alberto Neves, António Menéres, Álvaro Siza, Luís Botelho Dias and Joaquim Sampaio, the friends of “room 35” in the Praça da Liberdade. He worked with Arménio Losa from 1971 to 1972, and was a partner with Fernando Távora in his professional practice between 1972 and 1982. His architectural career lasted for more than 50 years. He is the author of important but little known works in the field of Portuguese architectural production in the second half of the 20th century. His archive brings together an artistic heritage of remarkable documentary value, of an era, of a generation and, more particularly, of his architectural activities: drawings, models, photographs, films.

During the last years of his life he gathered memories of his professional work, driven by curiosity to revisit what he had produced, synthesising the essential steps, the lessons learned, the various people involved. From there came the idea for a possible publication - "Memory" - which contains, in addition to the memoirs by Matos Ferreira himself, texts by Álvaro Siza, Sérgio Fernandez, Vítor Oliveira and Manuel Mendes, coordinator of the editorial project and of the "Terra D´Alva" cycle of activities. The book, published by the Marques da Silva Foundation, in partnership with Afrontamento publishers and the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, will be launched on 13 February 2017, marking the close of the exhibition which opens on the same day as the signing ceremony of the donation contract of the Architect Alfredo Matos Ferreira´s collection to the Marques da Silva Foundation, on 20 December 2016, in the José Marques da Silva Residence-Atelier.

Signing Ceremony for the Donation Contract:
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Digital Archive

About the architect:
"Memória", livro e Alfredo Matos Ferreira
Alfredo Matos Ferreira, artista de "sexto sentido" , article by Manuel Mendes
Arquitectura. Alfredo Matos Ferreira, um arquitecto na sombra da Escola do Porto, article by Sérgio C. Andrade   

Other events/exhibitions:
"Terra d´Alva"
“Construir um paraíso perdido / Por uma casa livre”
“Alfredo Matos Ferreira. Da condição da arquitectura como expressão e sentido do comum”