Meditation

After the industrial city

After the industrial city The city and the urban (FURTADO, Gonçalo, As Novas Formas UrbanoTerritoriais: A Cidade e o Arquitecto (2000). In: Arq./a, Lisboa, Abril 2009, p.78-81). Focusing on the new forms of the territorial and urban it is paramount to recognize that in a new reality - arising from the eruption of cultural globalization, economic internationalization and technological progress, as well as with a diversity of urban phenomena - new forms, dynamics and urban-territorial assumptions are established, based on mobility and flow. (1) (Vd. also: CASTELLS, Manuel, The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989).

Ignasi Solà-Morales legacy

When addressing the subject of urban culture, I cannot overlook the influence that Ignási Solà-Morales has had on me, his other students and colleagues of mine. Ignasi was, indeed, inspiring, since he outlined one of the most notable and insightful theoretical cartographies of contemporary metropolitan and architectural condition. In this complex architectural thought process, the selection of categories in which a provisional interpretation of a contemporary city can be based, which, in his own words, decentralized and composed of unstable outlines that are a result of the crystallization of different forces. These resulted in a complex system, one united by the permanent generosity of the intention to democratically overcome the strangeness of the late-capitalist and post-historic world, with an attention to post-modernity that does not obscure resistant modwernist intellectual heritage but rather seeks to rediscover proto-modernist interests in accordance with a democratization of linear consciousness. By coherently pursuing a disciplinary capacity reactive to the forces currently at work at the metropolitan and affecting the development of the city, Ignasi was also the first to alert us of the need to overcome the approaches of the previous decades, which had become commonplace. His views favoured an unstable reflection that shakes off the security of contentment.

Teoria de Arquitectura e o legado de Ignasi Solà-Morales

Aula Aberta de Teoria 1, 18.5.2015, FAUP, 11h "Teoria de Arquitectura e o legado de Ignasi Solà-Morales" com Pau-Solà-Morales. Apresentação inicial e debate final com Gonçalo Furtado.

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Publicações (Março-Maio 2012)

MARÇO - Gonçalo Furtado e Rosa Macedo, “Rural e urbano: Da urbanização do rural á ruralização do urbano”; in: Arq./a, N.101, Março-Abril 2012, p.106-109. ABRIL - Cristina Emilia e Gonçalo Furtado, “The Portuguese architecture’s ideas in an European geography: A cartography”, in: Theoretical Currents II: Architecture and its geographical horizons, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Abril 2012 (disponivel online) - Pedro Santos e Gonçalo Furtado, “Alternative knowing spaces in architectural competitions”; in: Theoretical Currents II: Architecture and its geographical horizons, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Abril 2012, disponivel online - Cristina Emilia e Gonçalo Furtado, “Ideias da arquitectura portuguesa em viagem”; in: A.Costa e D.Tavares (eds.), Joelho N.3, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Abril 2012(disponível online) MAIO - Gonçalo Furtado, “Das paisagens de silicone á intracidade: A acção reguladora da arquitectura no turismo”, in: Arq./a, N.102, Maio-Junho 2012, p.106-109

Comunicações orais: Março-Abril 2012

MARÇO 2012 - G Furtado, O espaço na cibercultura: Pressupostos e promessas na produção ficcional (Sci-fi e arquitectura)”, in: (Sessão “Espaço e Ficção”), FCSH-Centro de estudos de comunicação e linguagem,Lisboa, 2 Março 2012 .- G FURTADO, “Sedução urbana e fetish design: Desejos culturais de hibridez, transitoriedade e mutação, in: Encontros do Grupo de História Global de Espaços (Primavera 2012: Aspirações urbanas na pós-colonialidade”), Ceuta Café/Porto, 29 Março 2012. ABRIL 2012 - Cristina Emilia e Gonçalo Furtado, “The Portuguese architecture’s ideas in na European geography: A cartography”, in: Theoretical Currents II: Architecture and its geographical horizons, University of Lincoln, UK, 4 Abril 2012 - Pedro Santos e Gonçalo Furtado, “Alternative knowing spaces in architectural competitions”; in: Theoretical Currents II: Architecture and its geographical horizons, University of Lincoln,UK, 5 Abril 2012 - G Furtado, “Design culture, my architectural interests and futures for architectural education”, in: Iowa state University, USA, April 2012.