“We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end… Nothing stays for us. This is our natural condition, and yet contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate shore foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole […]

‘The Architect is responsible to create the spirit of a thought. (…) It is essential that the Architect create works that are thought provoking, sense provoking, and ultimately life provoking. Or more precisely, life giving, to what appears to be at first inanimate materials.’, John Hejduk, Berlin Nights (In Pérez-Gómez, Alberto. 2016 “John Hejduk’s Critical […]

‘…the entire dynamics of the film centres on the moment this woman refuses to be this cliché, on the moment when she no longer wants to be looked at but wants instead to look at others and becomes the looking subject.’, Agnès Varda In Agnès Varda: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) No filme de Agnès […]

‘A cidade deve ser compreendida como arquitetura. Por arquitetura, designo não só a imagem visível da cidade e a soma das suas diferentes arquiteturas, mas a arquitetura como construção, a construção da cidade ao longo do tempo.’, Aldo Rossi A cidade é produto da arquitetura, mas também repositório da história. Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) evoca a […]

A instalação ‘Remains II (Family II)’ de Annette Messager apresenta peluches pendurados numa parede – os inteiros estão vazios, os bocados estão cheios. As formas são amorfas e absorvem tudo. As partes dos corpos dos bonecos são disformes, parecem patas, pernas ou caudas.  Ralph Rugoff, no prefácio do catálogo da exposição ‘Annette Messager. The Messengers’ (Hayward […]

“The floating shapes that are none the less resonant of the moon, wings, maple seedlings or whatever, have evolved through compositional considerations more than anything else. I would of course admit, indeed rejoice in their having overtones of forms in nature, but would also point out they gain strength, meaning and universality from their mere […]

‘Architecture on the other hand is understood through moving, it is learnt overtime, often in a distracted state, and through tactile as well as visual encounters.’, Peter Wilson Para Peter Wilson (1950) cada elemento da arquitectura é singular e a ligação aos restantes elementos construídos é feita através de um fundo neutro ou de uma grande […]

“I am also interested in understanding that link between geometry and representation of space – the ambiguity of how three dimensions render on a flat plane… Adventures are like that: you follow tracks, you don’t follow ideologies.”, Nathalie du Pasquier  Nathalie du Pasquier (1957) pinta objetos e ultimamente a construção desses objetos faz parte do processo […]

  Uma cidade feminista é uma cidade mais humanista.   “If women’s rights are human rights, it stands to reason that a feminist city is a humanist city. While it’s true that a woman’s body may not be a feminist mind and not every female urbanist shares the same values, it is still the case […]

A cidade é acumulação de capital.      Dan Graham: Homes for America “What, for example, are we to make of immense concentrations of wealth, privilege, and consumerism and almost all the cities of the world in the midst of what even the United Nations depicts as an exploding ‘planet of slums’?”, David Harvey (2019) Nos dias […]