Archinews

“Vilanova Artigas said a fantastic thing: “Firstly, architecture is a technique, which has to be very well resolved, and then, perhaps, it can be art…” It is important to know how the building contacts the floor plan and how it contacts the sky plan…” Samuel Torres de Carvalho, ArchiNews ed#51

“The tourist, for all intents and purposes, is someone who is consuming the city already made. And this consumption is only possible because someone made a city before they arrived. Historical centres, matured over centuries, are then consumed by the people who invested the least in it…” Ricardo Vieira de Melo, ArchiNews ed#50

“For me, it is essential that the client identifies with what I do…  If someone hires us it is because they want to have something different… Being surprising is my job” Cristina Jorge de Carvalho, ArchiNews ed#49

“Everyone misses the time when the projects were made with time, very matured, fully talked and discussed. Today there is no time left for anything. The profession has become exhausting… The deadlines are crazy. The fees are very strangled. Legislation is a load of paper!” Pitagoras Group, ArchiNews ed#48

“Never felt attracted by the path to the stars. When it comes to creating on the white screen nothing seduces him more than the Invisible Architecture, the one that does not mark. The territory is already so marked that we better hide. To see, without being seen” Luis Rebelo de Andrade, ArchiNews ed#47

“Aldo Rossi says that  the first thing a teacher should do on the first day of classes is to show the students their work, credibility starts there. And to make it even more credible, we often use the phrase of the architect Jose Paulo dos Santos: We are what we do, we teach what we are…” Menos é […]

“The people who work with us are also trained architects. They are not Autocad lines or ArchiCad volumes drawing machines. They must be involved in the process. Architecture is a collective, utilitarian and social activity…” Nuno Montenegro, Archinews ed#45

“We have the desire to create environments, to create fantasy, to turn fantasy into reality. It isn’t only a matter of putting chairs, tables and sofas. Our sites always have some magic, some story, something in the air. They are spaces of mystery and intimacy. (…) We don’t need to do more, we need special things…” Nini […]

“We are always concerned with the sensory part. The work with the model, the hand, feeling the space, the volumetry, and even chance, which is also part of our work, and we are not ashamed to admit it, because it is a very powerful creative element…” Spaceworkers  (Henrique Marques / Rui Dinis), ArchiNews ed#43

“There are those who do not say anything until we do things, but after they are done they become very attentive and they start interfering. Everyone has a friend who is an architect or an engineer… And we have that terrible culture of giving opinions about what we do not known…” FCC Arquitectura (Fernando Coelho […]