11/7/11

Portuguese architectural competitions

Pedro Flores e Gonçalo Furtado, “Architectural competitions after the Portuguese Democratic revolution”(30377),
in: , "UIA 2011Tokyo Academic Program (Research papers and Design works) :The XXIV World Congress of Architecture", Tokyo international Forum, 25 September - 1 October 2011.
(DVD ISBN 4-903378-09-1)

Design de sistema espacial de abrigo

[Juri] André chaves, “Design de um sistema espacial de abrigo” [Dissertação de Mestrado em Design Industrial), FEUP, 28 Outubro 2011, 16h.
(Presidente Torres Marques; Orientadores Gonçalo Furtado e Jorge Lino; Arguente Luis Pinto Faria)

11/5/11

CIEE: International Study Programs

CIEE: International Study Programs
(CIEE study Center, BCN, 2 March 2011)

Architecture and Design Programs:
“Architecture Design Studio-Intermediate”
“Architecture Design Studio-Advanced”

Mid Term Review
Guest Crit: Gonçalo Furtado

10/24/11

Cedric Price: Fun Palace and beyond

Design, Architecture, City: From the Postwar to the Postmodern City
Suzanne Strum, Elisava School of Design, Fall 2010

Session 10 (3-11-2011) Postwar unpredictibility: Design and Cedric Price's Architecture (Fun Palace and beyond)
Guest Professor: Gonçalo Furtado
Context: The genesis of systems and computational paradigms in the architectural project of the 1960s and 1970s.

Cedric Price (1934-2003) explored an architecture of great flexibility, the promotion of an evolutionary environment able to incorporate the temporal dimension, with capacity to adapt and mutate steadily through the participation of users, computers and feedback These technologies ensured that the process did not have a clear product as its priority. A number of desirable conditions could be achieved in a moment and a particular place. Key to the encoded character of this development was the programmed obsolescence of the ensemble, the promotion of an impermanent architecture open to the participation of the user.
Key concepts: second-order cybernetics programmed obsolescence.
Projects: Fun Palace, Potteries Think Tank, Generator, etc

10/17/11

"On The “Architecture of Knowledge”,

Gonçalo M. Furtado, "On The “Architecture of Knowledge”, In: Susanne Schindler, Axel Sowa, Ariane Wilson (eds.), “Constructing Knowledge: Das Wissen der Architektur”, p.41-43, Aachen: RWTH-Aachen University (RWTH-Aachen Library Digital Repository / Conference Proceedings 5-6 Nov. 2009), August 2011, available in: http://darwin.bth.rwth-aachen.de/opus3/volltexte/2011/3694/pdf/3694.pdf (accessed August 2011)

8/9/11

Um conversa de Neil Leach com Gonçalo Furtado

G. Furtado, “Cidades, Construções escritas e Nova politica: Uma conversa de Neil Leach com Gonçalo Furtado”, Vitor Neves (Coord.), Sebentas d’ Arquitectura, N.6, Lisboa: Universidade Lusiada, 2011.

FELLOW of the IIAS

"Prof. Gonçalo Furtado [Oporto University] has been elected FELLOW of the IIAS [Intenational Institute for Advanced Studies...Canada] in recognition of hi outstadng scholarly research and his significant contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the field. Given at Baden-Baden this 4th day of August in the year 2011."