Back to the Same Most of us would not have expected that after the first lockdowns, happening in mid-March this year, we would be almost in the same circumstances nine months later. Unfortunately the vaccine we all hoped for is not yet found and the measures implemented by most countries didn’t work has effectively asContinueContinue reading “Covid Homes”
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Not Only Coronavirus Killed the Cinema Halls.
Small Town Blues Since the second half of the XX century the interior regions of Portugal have been suffering a continuous loss of population in detriment of the coastal areas. Today, more than 60% of the country’s 10.5 million habitants live between Lisbon and Porto. The provincial cities (Capitais de Distrito) of the interior stillContinueContinue reading “Not Only Coronavirus Killed the Cinema Halls.”
Critica de la Arquitectura Pura
Una reflexión visual. Después de unas extrañas vacaciones en las que no nos hemos podido desprender de las mascarillas, volvemos a lo nuestro… una pincelada audiovisual y dos recomendaciones. ( Lecturas recomendadas: “Un habitar más fuerte que la metrópoli ” del Consejo nocturno y “Sobre héroes y tumbas” de Ernesto Sabato.) Cuando la metrópoli dondeContinueContinue reading “Critica de la Arquitectura Pura”
Covid Airports – A Canvas for Otherness
Disruption Until the Covid-19 crisis, airports were a point of convergence. Symbols and manifestations of globalization. They were places where thousands of people would gather in utter ignorance of each other’s presence. With the ‘’new normality’’, there is a timid approximation to that same state of things. The reality is that coming back to anContinueContinue reading “Covid Airports – A Canvas for Otherness”
The Sketch Virus
We came across with João Boaventura’s sketch frenzy in social media during the coronavirus lockdown days.
Accepting one of the many online challenges available nowadays, Boaventura, an architect practicing for more than 25 years, drew one or two sketches per day during 30 days.
Once the 30 day period passed, he kept on drawing as if he was infected with some kind of virus that made him sketch in a compulsive way!
Coronavirus Made Visible
As the name says, public space is where the members of society move freely and can express themselves in civilized liberty. It’s a common patrimony that all of us, as citizens, use and take care of. MARKS ON THE GROUND During this new pandemic people have been globally required and, in some cases, imposed limitationsContinueContinue reading “Coronavirus Made Visible”
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