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Towards a public architectural history: Collective-use facilities and community...
Agarez, R. C.; Pascoal, A. M.; Herrera-Pineda, I.The sustained use and reuse of existing buildings is key in addressing social inequality and reinforcing sustainability and resilience in peripheral, disadvantaged communities of the so-called developed world. Collective-use facilities built since the 1940s, the outcome of individual and common efforts, carry decades of service to communities and are repositories of both material and experiential values. Knowin...
Para uma história pública da habitação: O programa «Casas para Famílias Pobres»...
Agarez, R. C.O artigo reconstitui a história de um pouco conhecido programa de apoio estatal à habitação acessível a populações mais carenciadas, designado «Casas para Famílias Pobres», que vigorou em Portugal entre 1945 e 1979. Os bairros erguidos no seu âmbito permanecem hoje em utilização, maioritariamente, em povoações de todo o país. A sua história é relevante não apenas para uma compreensão mais completa da resposta p...
The architecture of need: Collective-use facilities and community service in th...
Agarez, R. C.; Pascoal, A. M.Human need is one of the foundations of architecture. Its expression becomes particularly intense when conveyed by the community or in the name of the community, as a collective, shared necessity. Yet we often lose sight of this essential aspect of built environment production processes, focusing instead on matters such as design intentions, formal or technical innovation and authorship. The international confe...
Punishment, re-education and agriculture: Portuguese internal and imperial pena...
Agarez, R. C.; Macedo, M.This paper considers a set of Portuguese state-funded projects for agricultural colonisation using coerced subjects. In the second half of the nineteenth century, mounting urbanisation, joblessness, and deprivation, resulting in depopulated countryside and a fractious urban milieu, drove experts to seek international examples for institutionalisation and rehabilitation through agricultural labour. Placing those...
Vítor Figueiredo
Borges, P. N.; Agarez, R. C.O trabalho de Vítor Figueiredo (1929-2004), arquiteto português com um percurso que marcou a cultura arquitetónica no País nas décadas finais do século XX, permanece relativamente pouco conhecido do público não-especializado, e mesmo dos seus pares. Vítor Figueiredo desenvolveu uma importante obra construída e não construída, dedicada à habitação social – campo em que foi um dos principais criadores, e pensador...
The puzzle of architecture and bureaucracy
Agarez, R. C.; Floré, F.; Devos, R.Architecture and bureaucracy: indissociable and irreconcilable? The two spheres are often seen in opposition — the latter curtailing the former’s creative power — yet might they not also overlap, partake and occasionally coincide in their processes? Dismissing the role of bureaucracy in architecture as extraneous or detrimental seems to hinder our capacity, as thinkers and producers of architecture, to work thr...
Collective storytelling of common architecture: Arquitectura Aqui in Portugal a...
Agarez, R. C.; Inglez de Souza, D.Conference organised by Dirk van den Heuvel, Fatma Tanis and Bing van der Meer (TU Delft). Proceedings available for download online at https://nieuweinstituut.nl/en/events/building-data (Publication without ISBN). Digital archives can be open laboratories for knowledge production and for new forms of intellectual and cultural examination of the built environment. Open is the key qualifier here: Open to whom? W...
Where local modernities meet: The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Iraq, 1957-...
Agarez, R. C.The Gulbenkian Hall on Tayeran Square in Baghdad - one of the few venues there where works of Iraqi modern art can be seen today - was designed and built between 1957 and 1962 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, aimed at supporting the city's budding modern arts scene with its first purpose-built gallery. Importantly, it was also intended as a demonstration of the foundation's seriousness of purposes in stre...
Informar as comunidades para melhor (re)utilizar edifícios
Agarez, R. C.Edifícios da segunda metade do século XX podem ter novas utilizações. Uma ideia simples, mas que implica rever algumas ideias feitas sobre a arquitetura.