Future
1) FLYING HIGH
The top. Spent a few years, been provided in more urban locations, more central. He stopped, not very well knows why. Perhaps questions of priorities that have nothing to do with architecture.
Now he was for a more peripheral, along with key lines of communication: the motorway to the end of Metro line. Neighbor of a first work of Alvaro Siza, the Parish Center in Matosinhos. The states want to now more consistently and will, combined, support and advance the idea.
The House of Architecture progresses. Advances the previous study, study and approach to a program, this too prior, but willful. It must have something where they grasp, because as Fernando Tavora say, 'nothing worse than a blank sheet. " If only there is a black dot is a start, even if it is to ignore it and look for other things.
The program is ambitious, or perhaps not so. We, the Portuguese have the habit, bad, we consider below. We'd rather just be reasonable not to look bad. 'Who flies softly falls less,' says the people who are wise, but also Portuguese. But who flies quietly, not seen in the distance or see a high prospect.
Like other houses of its kind, which we visited, also here the spaces will be needed: reception, administrative areas, exhibition areas, educational areas and educational, auditorium, library and your file, files, and many scalable, workshops, maintenance. Technical and health areas.
A cafeteria and a bookstore complete the program. And there will be outdoor spaces, green, ordered.
The exhibition areas, one large and two smaller dimensions, allow the rotation of exhibitions, traveling or permanent the estate itself. Varied topics, comprehensive, controversial, modern, classic, experimental and everything else.
It is intended to give great importance to the exhibition didactic training and information aimed at those who are not architects: the young and very young children. But also for architects, young and old. The aim is to bring architecture to the people and the people to architecture. But it was not bad, at least, we take the people from architecture to architecture. In the House.
The auditorium will complement the activities but also a device to receive other related activities or not the architecture or house.
The library will receive, hopefully, the estate offered by friends and donors, as well as their own editions of the House and the acquired. The virtual library will establish a universal connection with all who are interested in architecture, architects, researchers, critics.
Administrative areas, only the necessary.
File, files, quality store where the logistics (warehouses today ceased to be and are logistics center) is top priority: there will be saved in a safe but accessible, what is and what will be. Producers compete to produce and architecture, if they wish to entrust the House materials that can be useful documentation. The House will handle the order, preserve and disseminate.
Areas of consultation, study and research connected to the library and archives.
Treatment and conservation workshops, workshops for assembly and maintenance of various arts.
Public spaces host, generous, like a house where they want to get well and to party, always partying. Support equipment which are to be built but also opening.
Only the technical areas necessary for the comfort, security, the people.
The previous study progresses and is presented.
Work intended to be larger, will certainly be broad and dynamic. Contemporary work but now and always, as good architecture.
Proposal intended to be participatory participatory.
Probably controversial, but for the vast family, different, because there are many desires, many tastes, many trends, many convictions.
So much diversity, so much creativity, it can only generate quality, a lot.
This is not to touch the Olympus, but it must fly so high.
2) COMMISSION PROGRAM MONITORING OF THE HOUSE OF ARCHITECTURE
On 7 and 21 February 2009 there were two meetings of the Programme Monitoring Committee of the House of architecture that from the preliminary study prepared by architects Alvaro Siza and Carlos Castanheira, helped to redefine the project program and launch HOUSE OF ARCHITECTURE for a nationwide, multi-institutional because of the provenance and quality of the members of that committee:
Programme Monitoring Committee of the House of Architecture:
Dr. Raquel Henriques da Silva
Professor of Art History at the FSCSH, New University
Eng Vasco Martins Costa
Former Director General Director of the National Buildings and Monuments
Architect. º Luís Tavares Pereira
Representative of Chamber of Architects - North Regional Chamber
Architect. º Manuel Mendes
Representative of the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
Dr. Teresa Siza
Former Director of the Center for Portuguese Photography
Architect. ª Paula Araújo Silva
Director of Cultural Services - North Regional Directorate for Culture
Dr. Elisa Babo, Portugal and José Pedro Quintela
Quaternaire Portugal
He was also invited:
Dr. Antonio Mega Ferreira
President of the Centro Cultural de Belém
The diversity and richness of the different views expressed at meetings, according to the experience of each player, drove the exploration of issues such as: Mission / Principle Founder / Objectives / Collections / Finance / Role of the State / Passage Foundation.
