Arquitetura funerária : o mausoléu como manifestação física de crenças espirituais

As one of the oldest if not the oldest type of sacred architecture, funerary architecture is the one that most purely and genuinly materializes in the physical world the existential issues of Man and the way in which he relates to his surroundings. Although this foundation of monumental architecture, and architecture in its most universal dimension, reflects the relationship of mankind with death, ultimately, its materialization is inspired by themes and motives intrinsic to life itself. Esse...

"Chambord Inachevé" : Entre o real e o imaginário

2019, the year that corresponds to the development of this essay, also corresponds to the year of the involvement in the project Chambord Inachevé: L'utopie à L'oeuvre. The present essay proposes the exhibition of the proposal to the competition as a device that stimulate and now follows through the flux of investigation starting from the history of this figure that combine the personal experience throughout the present year: Chambord. The stage of the men's will, ready to receive all diferen...

Da memória à construção do presente: Projeto para uma casa refúgio em contexto rural

The present work developed within the framework of this master thesis consists in a project that aims to rehabilitate a small rural house inserted in a time and space corresponding to the ends of the 19th century. The project seeks to build a valid and congruent response to a study, advocated a priori, based on an analytical and interpretative basis centered on the region, the house, but also, subsequently, on new constraints that also based the definition of the intervention methodology adop...

Ruy D´Athouguia. Depois da Gulbenkian

Ruy Jervis d'Athouguia is a portuguese architect who worked, actively, through 40 years and has produced in great quantity and quality, leaving behind a legacy of extraordinary works of great architectural value. Nonetheless, a considerable amount of his projects never left the paper sheets. His career takes a different direction with his participation in the competition for the Headquarters and Museum of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon, which he wins and builds, in collaboratio...