Tag Fernando Guerra

30-11-2016

Technology School of Guelmin by Saad El Kabbaj Architecte

In designing the Technology School of Guelmin, Saad El Kabbaj Architecte guide the people of southern Morocco toward cultural emancipation. The architecture of the Technology School of Guelmin draws on Morocco’s formal traditions in an innovative but rational way.

07-11-2016

Alvaro Siza Sacro exhibition at Maxxi Roma

From November 9 2016 through March 27 2017 Maxxi in Rome, the museum designed by Zaha Hadid, will contain a big installation designed by Álvaro Siza to display his projects in the exhibition entitled “Álvaro Siza, Sacro”, in which two profoundly different ways of approaching architecture appear in direct contrast.

25-10-2016

Anticlimax: the shattered dream of the Japanese metabolists

The portuguese firm Fala Atelier has created a report-cum-installation on the Nakagin Capsule Tower and its evolution in time. Between 1972 and the current time something went wrong with the utopian dream of the Japanese metabolist movement.

24-08-2016

José Adrião Arquitetos: casa dos prazeres in Lisbon

José Adrião Arquitetos renovates a house in Lisbon’s Alcantara district for use as José Adrião’s own house. Squeezed between two buildings on Rua Gilberto Rola, the Casa dos Prazeres opens up towards the top and the rear patio. White walls, bare concrete and glimpses of different rooms and levels give the project its character.

02-08-2016

Guelmim School of Technology Morocco Aga Khan Award Architecture

The Guelmim School of Technology, in Guelmim, Morocco, designed by architects Saad El Kabbaj, Driss Kettani and Mohamed Amine Siana, was selected amongst the 348 projects participating in the 13th edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and is now one of the 19 finalist projects chosen for this prestigious Award.

01-06-2016

Fala Atelier’s Principe Real Apartment

Sometimes the best thing you can do is start all over again from scratch, as the Portuguese architects of Fala Atelier found out when they agreed to renovate an apartment in central Lisbon and had to start by knocking down all the interior walls.

04-04-2016

Chiado Apartment by Fala Atelier of Portugal

Portuguese architectural studio Fala Atelier renovated a historic apartment in central Lisbon. The first phase in the work involved elimination of additions made by the owners to the interior of the apartment over the past two centuries.

24-03-2016

Pedro Léger Pereira's sculptures photographed by Fernando Guerra

The exhibition distância(s) distance(s), featuring the work of architect and sculptor Pedro Léger Pereira, closed at the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon University on March 4. Fernando Guerra's photographs play with the observer, restoring the sense of Pedro Léger Pereira's work.