Aires Mateus - Architectural Terrains

Five Investigations

Aires Mateus - Architectural Terrains
Manuel Aires Mateus, Francisco Aires Mateus, Nuno Crespo, Sofia Pinto Basto, Paulo Pires Do Vale, Ricardo Carvalho, Delfim Sardo
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h315 x 241mm - 240pg
15 Jun 2022 GE
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9783966800143
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The acclaimed architectural geniuses of the Portuguese world, AIRES MATEUS, have been invited to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale five times since 2010. This publication introduces the five breathtakingly poetic installations that they have contributed to the world' s most renowned architectural event. The Venice Architecture Biennale, one of the most acclaimed events in the world of architecture, is undoubtedly the most prominent of about twenty biennales and triennials devoted to the field worldwide. The international affair brings together leading practitioners from around the world to share knowledge and developments on questions of contemporary relevance. It is a particular distinguishment for the architectural practice AIRES MATEUS to have been invited to participate in this biennale five times. Founded in the 1980s and led by the two brothers Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, the practice has gained international recognition for its poetic reinterpretation of architectural traditions in Portugal. Their impact on the current architectural scene in the Portuguese world is unparalleled. This publication, which introduces the five architectural installations contributed to the Venice Biennale by AIRES MATEUS over the past decade, consists of five individual parts. Each of the five books is dedicated to one installation in Venice. They are held together by a vertical slipcase, discretely and beautifully embossed. The breathtaking projects presented in this volume set an outstanding example of how architectural installations reflect space in a sensitive, poetic, and even mathematical way. Every installation is introduced by a short essay, specially written for this publication by philosophers, architects, and an art critic. Contributors include Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus, Ricardo Carvalho, Nuno Crespo, Sofia Pinto Basto, Paulo Pires do Vale, and Delfim Sardo.
Manuel Aires Mateus (Lisbon, 1963), graduated from the Faculty of Architecture - U. T. L. in 1986. Francisco Aires Mateus (Lisbon, 1964), graduated from the Faculty of Architecture - U. T. L. in 1987. After collaborating with the architect Goncalo Byrne, they founded AIRES MATEUS studio in 1988. They have been teaching since 1986 in several different universities across the globe including Harvard and Cornell University. Aires Mateus has been awarded with several prizes, both national and international, including the Valmor Prize, Secil Prize, Ecola Prize, Enor Prize, FAD Awards, the prize of the Ibero-American Architecture Biennale, and several projects have been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Awards. In 2017 they received the Pessoa Prize, the most important prize in the area of Portuguese culture. Many projects have been published in international monographs and magazines. Nuno Crespo (PhD, New University of Lisbon) is Senior Researcher at the Art History Institute of the New University of Lisbon. His work includes the coordination of the research group Art. Criticism. Politics. , teaching Aesthetics and Art Theories and coordinating graduate studies in Art Curatorship. His research activities have been concentrated on the intersection between art, architecture and philosophy, and devoted to the possibilities of critical thinking within curatorship. Recent publications include articles on Adriana Molder, Aires Mateus, Axel Hutte, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candida Hoeffer, Carrilho da Graca, Daniel Blaufuks, Fassbinder, Gerhard Richter, Luisa Cunha, Miguel Angelo Rocha, Nuno Cera, Paulo David, Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes, Vasco Araujo, and books Wittgenstein e a Estetica, Juliao Sarmento. Olhar Animal. , Arte. Critica. Politica. He is also an art critic and an independent curator. Sofia Pinto Basto graduated in 1993 from the Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa. She completed further studies in the field of Philosophy at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1995, while already working in the studio Oliveira Sousa Arquitectura e Urbanismo, where she gained twenty years of experience. As project coordinator, projects she worked on include the campus of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, campus of the Politecnico do Cavado e do Ave, and the Stone Block housing building in Lisbon. Since 2000 , Sofia Pinto Basto has been working together with Ana Cravinho and Ines Cordovil. They founded SIA arquitectura studio in 2007, with the aim of defining a language that reflects their distinctive perspective on architecture. Paulo Pires do Vale is a pProfessor, essayist and curator, graduate and master in Philosophy from FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He teaches at the Portuguese Catholic University, at the Department of Architecture at UAL and at Maria Ulrich School of Early Childhood Educators, where he coordinates the Postgraduate Degree in Artistic Practices and Pedagogical Processes. The many essays and articles he has written include "Everything is something else. Desire in Hegel' s Phenomenology of the Spirit ". His writing has been published in books, magazines and catalogs of collective and individual exhibitions and focuses primarily on the relationship between art, education and society. Ricardo Carvalho, graduated in architecture in 1995 at FAUTL at the Universidade Tecnica in Lisbon. He established the studio RCJV Arquitectos in 1999, which has been known as, Ricardo Carvalho Associados since 2018. In 2012 he earned a PhD in Architecture from the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon. He has taught as a professor since 2005 and became Dean of the Department of Architecture of the Universidad Autonoma, Lisbon in 2013. His teaching positions include a professorship from 2009 to 2013 in the "Architektur Studium Generale" International Master at Brandenburgische Technische Universitat Cottbus, Germany, and visiting professorships at the Escuela de Arquitectura , Universidad de Navarra in 2013 and Carleton University, Ottawa from 2016 to 2017. He is a regular guest critic in several universities, in Portugal and abroad. From 2005 to 2008, Ricardo Carvalho worked as editor in chief of JA-Jornal dos Arquitectos. He writes regularly for international publications and has curated various architectural exhibitions. His book "The Social City" was published in 2016. The many awards he has been nominated for include the Mies van der Rohe Award of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture which he was first nominated for in 2015 and currently again for the 2022 cycle. Delfim Sardo is a professor at the University of Coimbra and responsible for the visual arts program at Culturgest, Fundacao Caixa Geral de Depositos. He also works as consultant of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and director of the Center of Exhibitions of the Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon. His curatorial work includes the curatorship of the Portuguese Representation at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and co-curatorship of the same in 2010. He was also chief curator of the Architecture Triennale of Lisbon 2010 and of the Biennial Anozero in 2017. Further pursuits include his founding and directing the Pangloss contemporary art magazine and working as president of the Portuguese section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics). He writes regularly on art and architecture and is the author of several books, including A Visao em Apneia published by Babel in 2013, and O Exercicio Experimental da Liberdade by Black Orpheus in 2017.

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