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Synopses  ContentsFrom Porto to Lisbon The architectural image of contemporary Portugal has come to be associated with the dazzling light and purity of lines of Porto's lyrical builders. Now, from the banks of the river Douro, the modernizing impetus of a country steeped in a process of renewal has reached the estuary of the Tagus. This area has been made the scene of the century's last world fair, through which old faded Lisbon aspires to consolidate a future of metropolitan dimensions. Portuguese architecture today situates itself between the legacy of wise traditions and the expectations of a future still in the making.  Antonio Angelillo Identity and Change Latest Portuguese ArchitectureJuan Miguel Hernández León Portugal Notebook Siza in the CitiesNuno Portas Capital of the Future Lisbon and Expo 98Buildings: Projects and Realizations  ArchitectureCanonical Character. Amid the jubilation that prevails over the Expo precinct, Siza and Carrilho da Graça have for their respective pavilions chosen the clear-cut geometries and traditional materials of Portuguese architecture; equally exemplary in its dialogue with the past is the conversion into a hotel of the monastery of Bouro, a work of Souto de Moura.  Álvaro Siza Portuguese Pavilion, Expo 98João Luis Carrilho da Graça Pavilion of the Seas, Expo 98Eduardo Souto de Moura Hotel at Bouro, Amares
 Internal Renovation. The new learning centers reflect both the modernization of Portugal and the types favored by the country's recent architectural production, represented here by three prismatically shaped educational facilities: an engineering school by Adalberto Dias, a series of veterinary laboratories by Rocha & Gigante, and a university building by Nuno and José Mateus.  Adalberto Dias Engineering Faculty, AveiroJ. Álvaro Rocha & José Gigante Laboratories, Vila do CondeNuno & José Mateus Business School, Setúbal
 Books, Exhibitions, Personalities  Art / CultureBetween Piano and Koolhaas. The Genoese Renzo Piano is the first high-tech architect ever to win the Pritzker, while the Dutch Rem Koolhaas inaugurates a house and an exhibition on domestic projects, both in Bordeaux.  Richard Ingersoll Piano, Pritzker PrizeFrançois Chaslin Koolhaas in Bordeaux
 Chronicle of Losses.The American Dominique de Menil was a great Maecenas of modern art and architecture; and the Italian-Swiss Alberto Sartoris, one of the last theorists of the rationalist avant-garde..  Stephen Fox Dominique de Menil, 1908-1997José Laborda Alberto Sartoris, 1901-1998
 Invitations to Read. Essays on different themes, biographies of great figures, repertoires of buildings, and reflections on the city of tomorrow: publishers are once again promoting architecture through the written word.  Focho's Cartoon Kenzo TangeVarious Authors BooksInteriors, Design, Construction  Technique / StyleThree Curved Covers. The huge concrete shell built by Foster houses a collection of historic airplanes; the wooden arches forming the oval cupola designed by Ito serve as a ceiling for sport competitions; and the wide warped platform constructed by Sejima and Nishizawa acts as both a roof and an exhibition space for a university art center.  Norman Foster American Air Museum, DuxfordToyo Ito O-Dome, Odate Sejima & Nishizawa Multimedia Workshop, Ogaki
 To close, the products section tackles the problematic matter of the skylight, a recurring element in projects that is not always easily adaptable to the demands of southern climates; and addressing the creative possibilities offered by a computer game, Fernando Valderrama speculates on a plausible future profession dedicated to the design of virtual spaces.



   Ignacio Paricio SkylightsEnglish Summary From Porto to LisbonFernando Valderrama Mysteries of Myst



 

Luis Fernández-Galiano

From Porto to Lisbon

In a quarter of a century, Portugal has passed from shade to limelight. The revolution of the carnations crossed the threshold of freedom; the revolution of the euro and the Expo now traverses the shadow line of modernity. Political and social freedom melted the boundaries of ignorance that had made the country a blind spot on the European map, and its neighbors were amazed to find a landscape both moving and quiet. Economic and technical modernity, in turn, have regenerated the self-esteem of a melancholic nation, which has exchanged nostalgia for a hopeful saudade of the future. In architecture, the spring of the carnations allowed the gradual diffusion of the Porto school; and the spring of the euro and the Expo has consolidated Portugal's integration into a global economy, with the attendant construction in Lisbon of emblematic works designed by foreigners. From the Douro to the Tagus, this Atlantic country has swiftly moved from penumbra to brilliance, and from poetry to spectacle.

Spaniards and Portuguese have shared so many periods of history that the symmetries of this latest stretch come as no surprise: Spain's political transition took place shortly after the establishment of democracy in Portugal, while the now ongoing celebrations in Lisbon reproduce the climate of euphoria and optimisim that the Seville Expo and Barcelona Olympics had created in 1992. Long since the destiny of both countries was determined by marriage alliances between dynasties, Spain and Portugal are now living a moment of spontaneous fraternity that nourishes mutual awareness and cultural exchanges: literary, musical, and of course architectural. On the Spanish side of the 'dry line', admiration for the Portuguese renaissance first centered on the fertile example of the Porto architects, but eventually spread to include the vigorous energy of Lisbon, which represents and expresses the country at large.

Many will raise an eyebrow at the Expo. Faced with the coloristic muddle of the pavilions, the naïf technology of the canopies and the trivial colossalism of the grounds, they will suggest we lose our way instead in the labyrinth of the Alfama, stroll unhurriedly through the Baixa or stop at length in the miradors of the Bairro Alto. But the placid theatrical beauty of old Lisbon cannot conceal the deficiencies of its infrastructure, which a collective challenge like the Expo has helped to alleviate. No one has understood this split character of Lisbon as well as a master from Porto, the wise and genial Álvaro Siza, who has been silent in the Chiado yet eloquent in the Expo; his serene concrete tent and arhythmic stone porticoes combine mute monumentality with a sweeping welcome gesture to create a gravid baldachin, spanning a luminous and shaded plaza on the edge of the water: this light and heavy canopy will for a few months shelter the marine heart of an ocean-faring nation.

index

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  De Oporto a Lisboa [English too]

  Fernández-Galiano, Luis

  Ubicación: Portugal

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  Català-Roca, 1922-1998

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

• Page 5

  Prototipos y marcas: Foster para Repsol

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Foster, Norman
  Proyecto: Gasolineras Repsol

• Page 7

  Bernard Tschumi, de Nueva York a Lausana

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Tschumi, Bernard
  Proyecto: Intercambiador de transportes, Lausana
  Ubicación: Suiza

• Page 7

  Rem Koolhaas junto a Mies en Chicago

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Koolhaas, Rem
  Proyecto: Edificio multifuncional, IIT, Chicago, Illinois
  Ubicación: Estados Unidos

• Page 7

  Zaha Hadid, un centro de arte en Cincinnati

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Hadid, Zaha
  Proyecto: Centro de Artes Contemporáneas, Cincinnati, Ohio
  Ubicación: Estados Unidos

• Page 9

  En Berlín, el último Rossi

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Rossi, Aldo
  Proyecto: Viviendas en Schützenstrasse, Berlín
  Ubicación: Alemania

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  W.J. Neutelings, edificios parlantes

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Neutelings, Willem Jan

• Page 9

  Un rascacielos de Piano en la Potsdamer Platz

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Piano, Renzo
  Proyecto: Rascacielos en la Potsdamer Platz, Berlín
  Ubicación: Alemania

• Page 11

  Linazasoro en el antiguo matadero de Valladolid

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Linazasoro, José Ignacio
  Proyecto: Centro cultural y deportivo, Valladolid
  Ubicación: Castilla y León

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  Europan V: vivienda y vías de comunicación

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

• Page 11

  Un proyecto de Bellosillo para Osaka

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Bellosillo, Javier
  Proyecto: Mobiliario urbano, Osaka
  Ubicación: Japón

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  Alfredo Arribas: ciudad musical en Montluçon

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Arribas, Alfredo
  Proyecto: Museo de Música
  Ubicación: Francia

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  Nueva exposición de Vitra en España

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

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  Prouvé en París, y a escala 1:1

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Prouvé, Jean

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  Todo Rodchenko en el MoMA de Nueva York

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Rodchenko, Alexandr

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  Casto Fernández-Shaw, inventor de arquitecturas

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Fernández-Shaw, Casto

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  1917-1924, Picasso en el Gran Canal

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

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  René Magritte, centenario

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

• Page 15

  El universo de los signos de Paul Klee

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

• Pages 17 -21

  Identidad y cambio: breve informe sobre la arquitectura portuguesa

  Angelillo, Antonio

  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 22 -27

  Cuadernos lusos: Siza en las ciudades

  Hernández León, Juan Miguel

  Arquitecto: Siza, Álvaro

• Pages 28 -39

  Capital del futuro: la Expo 98 y el desarrollo urbano de Lisboa

  Portas, Nuno

  Proyecto: Expo 98, Lisboa
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 40 -43

  Luz de lona: pabellón de Portugal, Expo 98, Lisboa

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Siza, Álvaro
  Proyecto: Pabellón de Portugal, Expo 98, Lisboa
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 44 -47

  Un megalito moderno: pabellón del Conocimiento de los mares, Expo 98, Lisboa

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Carrilho da Graça, João Luis
  Proyecto: Pabellón del Conocimiento de los mares, Expo 98, Lisboa
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 48 -53

  Memoria reinventada: parador del Santa María de Bouro, Amares

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Souto de Moura, Eduardo
  Proyecto: Parador del Santa María de Bouro, Amares
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 54 -57

  Severa y cerámica: Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica, Aveiro

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Dias, Adalberto
  Proyecto: Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica, Aveiro
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 58 -63

  Orden orgánico: laboratorio de Investigación Veterinaria, Vila do Conde

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Rocha, João Álvaro; Gigante, José
  Proyecto: Laboratorio de Investigación Veterinaria, Vila do Conde
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 64 -67

  Dinámica constructiva: Escuela Superior de Ciencias Empresariales, Setúbal

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Mateus, Nuno y José
  Proyecto: Escuela Superior de Ciencias Empresariales, Setúbal
  Ubicación: Portugal

• Pages 69 -71

  La oreja alada: Renzo Piano, premio Pritzker

  Ingersoll, Richard

  Arquitecto: Piano, Renzo

• Pages 72 -73

  Máquinas de emocionar: Koolhaas expone en Burdeos sus proyectos domésticos

  Chaslin, François

  Arquitecto: Koolhaas, Rem

• Pages 74 -75

  'Ars longa, vita brevis': Dominique de Menil, 1908-1997

  Fox, Stephen

• Pages 76 -77

  El último cronista: Alberto Sartoris, 1901-1998

  Laborda, José

  Arquitecto: Sartoris, Alberto

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  Biografías construidas

  García-Herrera, Adela

  Libro / Autor: Zabalbeascoa, Anatxu; Rodríguez Marcos, Javier. Vidas construidas. Gustavo Gili

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  Escritos colegiales

  García-Herrera, Adela

  Libro / Autor: Quetglas, Josep. . Actar

• Page 79

  Todo es comparable: Tusquets ensayista

  Rodríguez Marcos, Javier

  Arquitecto: Tusquets, Óscar
  Libro / Autor: Tusquets, Óscar. Todo es comparable. Anagrama

• Page 80

  Ciudades en un planeta demasiado pequeño

  Velázquez, Isabel

  Libro / Autor: Rogers, Richard. Cities for a Small Planet. Faber Faber

• Page 80

  'Eco tech': la tecnología como panacea

  Verdaguer, Carlos

  Libro / Autor: Slessor, Catherine. Eco-Tech. Gustavo Gili Daniels, Klaus. The Technology of Ecological Building. Birkhäuser Behling, Sophia y Stefan. Sol Power. Prestel

• Page 81

  Aragón: una guía en tres volúmenes

  García-Herrera, Adela

  Libro / Autor: Laborda Yneva, José. Guías de arquitectura de Huesca, Teruel y Zaragoza. CAI

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  Voralberg en los noventa

  Verdaguer, Carlos

  Libro / Autor: Sayah, Ambar. Neue Architektur in Voralberg. Callwey

• Page 81

  Arquitectura española: compendio del siglo

  García-Herrera, Adela

  Libro / Autor: (SA) Guía de arquitectura: España 1920-2000. Tanais

• Pages 84 -87

  Vuelo rasante: Museo Americano del Aire, Duxford

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Foster, Norman
  Proyecto: Museo Americano del Aire, Duxford
  Ubicación: Reino Unido

• Pages 88 -91

  El bosque oval: cúpula O, Odate

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Ito, Toyo
  Proyecto: Cúpula O, Odate
  Ubicación: Japón

• Pages 92 -95

  Leve alabeo: talleres de arte multimedia, Ogaki

  (Redacción Arquitectura Viva)

  Arquitecto: Sejima, Kazuyo; Nishizawa, Ryue
  Proyecto: Talleres de arte multimedia, Ogaki
  Ubicación: Japón

• Pages 100 -103

  Claraboyas: uso y abuso de las cristaleras cenitales

  Paricio, Ignacio

• Page 104

  Claraboyas. 'De catálogo'

  Paricio, Ignacio

  Producto / Empresa: Cisa Lucernario bivalvo. Plexi, Grupo Röhm / Colt Azur. Colt

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  Claraboyas. De cubierta

  Paricio, Ignacio

  Producto / Empresa: Sistema SK 60. Schüco Sistemas Cortizo / Veranda ST. Technal Ibérica

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  Claraboyas. De materiales plásticos

  Paricio, Ignacio

  Producto / Empresa: Akyver confort. Grupo Irpen Danpalon. Pal Plastic / Polyú. Criplast

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  Claraboyas. Practicables

  Paricio, Ignacio

  Producto / Empresa: Velux A/S Hervent. Gravent LouverDrape / Sunroom. Tecnispai

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  Los misterios de Myst: ¿Sueñan los arquitectos digitales con espacios virtuales?

  Valderrama, Fernando