"Escritos Escolhidos" [Selected Writings] e "Passa-a-Palavra: Falemos de Arquitetura" [Word-of-Mouth: let´s talk about architecture]
At a time of confinement, the University of Porto´s Casa Comum issued the challenge and the Marques da Silva Foundation responded with two sets of podcasts: "Selected Writings" and "Word-of-Mouth: let´s talk about architecture".
Borrowing the title of the last book published as part of the translation of Giorgio Grassi´s written work, "Escritos Escolhidos" ["Selected Writings"] aims to give voice to the words written by the architects who have entrusted their collections to the Marques da Silva Foundation. It is a fact that writing, dictated by professional requirements or in response to a personal wish, is always present in the daily lives of Architects. Unpublished or already published, they will be texts which can offer another perspective on the writer or on their subject.
In "Passa-a-Palavra: falemos de arquitetura" ["Word-of-Mouth: let´s talk about architecture"], the Marques da Silva Foundation invites the community of Architects to reveal the design or work that holds a place of reference in their view of the Architectural world. This personal choice will be explained to us here, leaving at the end of each programme an implicit invitation to the one that follows, thus creating a chain that will span multiple generations of architects.
"Selected Writings" - Listen here
Season 1 (April-August 2020):
#1: José Marques da Silva: Letter to the Leader of Porto City Council (1915) | Digital Archive: documents relating to the openng of the Avenue:
#2: Fernando Távora: The granite of my childhood (1999)
#3: Alcino Soutinho: A country of countries (n.d.)
#4: Alexandre Alves Costa: Presentation on Maria de Sousa (1996)
#5: Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: Architecture: past, present, future (2015)
#6: Álvaro Siza: Vittorio Gregotti (1989) and Gravura de Picasso (2020)
#7: Raúl Hestnes Ferreira: Around Carlos de Oliveira (s.d.)
#8: José Carlos Loureiro: Freixo Palace (1981)
#9: Sergio Fernandez: Vill´Alcina (2006)
#10: Álvaro Siza: Barragán (1994) and António Quadros (1991)
#11: Fernando Tavora: House of Covilhã, Guimarães (1983) | FIMS Digital Archive
#12: On Arménio Losa: texts by Álvaro Siza, Alcinho Soutinho, Jorge Gigante e Fernando Távora (1988)
#13: José Porto: Coliseu do Porto (1938) | ebook Coliseu do Porto
#14: Fernando Lanhas: thoughts (s.d.)
#15: Octávio Lixa Filgueiras: "Usina", in Requiem às Glórias do Mundo (1949)
"Word-of-Mouth: let´s talk about architecture" - Listen here
Season 1 (April-August 2020):
#1: João Pedro Xavier: Barcelona Pavilion, Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona
#2: Nuno Brandão Costa: Basilica of Saint Lawrence, Filippo Brunelleschi - Florence
#3: Pedro Ramalho: Town houses in Werkund, Adolf Loos - Vienna
#4: João Pedro Serôdio: Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe - Illinois
#5: Francisco Vieira de Campos: House at Porto Manso, Eduardo Souto de Moura - Baião
#6: Graça Correia: Lafayette Park, Mies van der Rohe - Detroit
#7: Nuno Valentim: Barragan House, Luis Barragán - México
#8: José Gigante: The "Corbusier journey" - France
#9: João Mendes Ribeiro: Neues Museum, David Chipperfiel - Berlin
#10: Andreia Garcia: Tlalpan Chapel, Luis Barragán - México
#11: Carlos Antunes: Architectures without architects: nests
#12: Harry Wolf: Barcelona Pavilion, Mies van der Rohe - Barcelona
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