O espaço urbano segundo Henri Lefebvre.   ‘I really love this idea that a utopia should be categorized by the meaningful interactions between people, that a society is “perfect” not because of how well-off the inhabitants are, but because of the happiness they’ve found amongst one another.’, Henri Lefebvre   Henri Lefebvre afirma que o […]

  A vida do dia a dia, segundo Henri Lefebvre.   ‘The meaning of life is not to be found in anything other than that life itself.’, Henri Lefebvre   Henri Lefebvre em ‘Critique of Everyday Life’ escreve que é na vida real, na vida de todos os dias que a pessoa humana (corpo e […]

  Carlos Botelho e as pinturas de Nova Iorque.   ‘Felizmente pode subir-se quando se quiser ao miradouro do Rockefeller Center ou ao 102º andar do Empire State Building e mirar, de alturas vertiginosas, a poderosa cidade; de dia, quando ela é um mar de rochas cinzento-azuladas, exótica incomparável, fria e bela, onde dificilmente se […]

  A cidade segundo Georges Perec.   ‘There’s nothing inhuman in a town, unless it’s our own humanity.’, Georges Perec, ‘Species of Spaces’   Segundo Georges Perec em ‘Species of Spaces’, encontrar uma só definição para cidade, poderia ser demasiado ambicioso – não é possível explicar ou justificar a existência da cidade. A cidade existe […]

  John Ruskin – Arte, Trabalho e Sociedade. (Parte 2)   ‘…go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic ignorance of the old sculptors: examine once more those ugly goblins and formless monsters and stern statues, anatomiless and rigid; but do not mock at […]

  John Ruskin – Arte, Trabalho e Sociedade. (Parte 1)   ‘But now having no true business, we pour our whole-masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltly and darkly.’, […]

  Adolf Loos e a procura por uma arquitetura pura.   ‘My architecture is not conceived in plans, but in spaces (cubes). I do not design floor plans, facades, sections. I design spaces.’, Adolf Loos, 1930   Adolf Loos (1870-1933) considerava o ornamento como o resultado evidente de uma cultura em declínio.   Loos ansiava […]

  Henry Van de Velde – empatia e abstração.   ‘Just as the urge to empathy as a pre-assumption of aesthetic experience finds its gratification in the beauty of the organic, so the urge to abstraction finds its beauty in the life-denying inorganic in the crystalline or, in general terms, in all abstract law and […]

  Breve introdução acerca de William Morris.   ‘Both shores had a line of very pretty houses, low and not large, standing back a little way from the river; they were mostly built of red brick and roofed with tiles, and looked, above all, comfortable, and as if they were, so to say, alive and […]

     Os ‘Adaptativos‘ de Franz West.    ‘I like the idea that in picking up one of the ‘Adaptives’ there is a moment of not knowing what to do next, a moment of not knowing what to do with the audience. You make unplanned actions and gestures with the audience looking at you, and […]