GONÇALO FURTADO . BLOG

writings on architecture, design and cultural studies (incl. cedric price, gordon pask and many other stuff)

4/19/10

Gonçalo Furtado: Gonçalo M Furtado C Lopes is graduated in Architecture (Oporto Univ.,Portugal), Master (Univ. Politecnica da Catalunha,Spain), and PhD in History and Theory of Architecture (Univ. College of London,England). His dissertation focuses on the exchanges between architecture and systems research, the encounters of the British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer -, and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. He has given lectures worldwide, and he is the author “Arquitectura: Prótese do Corpo” (2002; eds. Furtado et alts); “Architecture and Information Society”,(2002; eds. Furtado and Braz); “Notes on the Space of Digital Technique” (2002) ; “Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable Flesh (2004); “Off Fourm: Postglobal City and Marginal Design Discourses” (2004; ed. Furtado and Hernandez); “Interferencias: Conformação, Implementação e Futuro da Cultura Digital” (2005); “The Construction of the Critical Project” (2005); “Architecture: Machine and Body” (2006; eds. Furtado e Braz); “Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer” (Jan.2008), etc. gmfcl@hotmail.com

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