Archinews

“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 […]

“The big challenge is to make Architecture be a binder capable of being present and remaining in increasingly rapid and unpredictable changes, capable of maintaining Man’s relationship with the surroundings, with other Men…” Topos Atelier (Jean Pierre Porcher / Margarida Oliveira), ArchiNews ed#41

“The biggest problem in Portugal is not the school. In our country, the biggest problem for architects is Portugal… And the Portuguese way of thinking and the way they look at architecture… (…) Knowledge of Architecture and Intelligence about the world may be the answer…” Jorge Mealha, ArchiNews ed#39

“The development of the project, to a certain extent, means a kind of liberation from the constraint of the program, without ever betraying or abandoning it, but attaining another plan in which the goal, in essence, is Beauty… (…) No architect starts with the idea that he is going to write a poem. (…) There […]

“I believe that the architect must defend his ideas, but he has to give in on what concerns the ultimate goal. Being able to offer a space where the customer feels comfortable. If we do not listen to the people that will use the space, to what they want, we will certainly have more difficulties […]

“It is important to give the people tools so that they can develop their work, namely drawing, but there is an especially difficult thing that is teaching people how to think… The important thing is to know how to question… Without effort we are not going anywhere. This facilitation, of having unlimited access to information, […]

“Today people have the idea that good architecture is spectacular architecture. The more complex from the formal point of view, the better. This is perfectly stupid. It seems that we have entered a new period of perfectly fool monumentalism…” Victor Neves, Archinews ed#35