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PHOTOGRAPHY & MODERN ARCHITECTURE. BOOK OF ABSTRACTS

Publication . AA.VV.

Abstracts and bios of the international Conference Photography & Modern Architecture

2015-04Book

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Architecture et photographie d’architecture au XIXe siècle au Portugal

Publication . TREVISAN, Alexandra; MAIA, Maria Helena

The studies of history of photography are relatively recent in Portugal. So, the analysis of the linkage with the history of architecture, although attractive, will necessarily have to be taken with the necessary caution to a first approximation. In fact, if we think in 19th century architects photographers, we are almost reduced to the work of Possidónio da Silva (1806-1896). This Portuguese architect was formed in Paris, where he worked with Percier and Fontaine and became acquainted with the ideas of Caumont, experience that came to be reflected in the action that he developed when Possidónio returned to Portugal. Possidónio da Silva was the founder of the Portuguese Civil Architects Association (1863) later Royal Association of Portuguese Civil Architects and Archaeologists. He has devoted much of his life to archeology and to the study and protection of national heritage. In this work, he did use the photograph both as a way to documental registration and as a way of dissemination in the publications that he was associated. Indeed, it is as a mean of documentation that the photograph is being used in the second half of the 19th century. In 1880, the Government has appointed a team to make some travels by Portugal in order to, among other things, identify and assess the heritage value of buildings that he intended to sell. In this team, we already can identify a photographer, Carlos Relvas, along with an architect, Alfredo de Andrade (Boito's friend) and a journalist, Rangel Lima. The architectural photography, published or used as such in photo-editorial activity through collotype (Carlos Relvas Cunha Morais and Emilio Biel), photoengraving and zincography (Marques de Abreu) seems to be primarily a vehicle for spreading much of the historical heritage, and contemporary architectural production. However, it was only in the 20th century, that the interest of architects in photography was extended beyond the mere record or disclosure and which enters in the field of artistic photography or of the specialized photographers, whose spolium can be identified with the contemporary architectural production (Domingos Alvão, Mário Novais, Teófilo Rego). This paper, will try to identify the key moments of the evolution, in Portugal, of architectural photography and the relationship between architects and photographers on the 19th century

2016-03Conference object

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PHOTOGRAPHY, MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND THE “SCOOL OF OPORTO”: INTERPRETATIONS AROUND TEÓFILO REGO ARCHIVE. FINAL REPORT

Publication . TREVISAN, Alexandra

Detailed Final Report of the FCT project Photography, Modern Architecture and the “Scool of Oporto”: interpretations around Teófilo Rego Archive, 2013-2015

2015Report

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A traveling theatre

Publication . TREVISAN, Alexandra

The VII IUA (International Union of Architects) Conference took place in the summer of 1961 in London. It was organized by Riba (Royal Institute of British Architects) and under the general name “Architecture and Technology”, where the debates focused on new architecture materials and techniques. An international student contest under the theme “A Travelling Theatre” was set up at this conference. In the academic year of 1960/61 the Fine Arts Schools of Porto and Lisbon embraced the UIA proposal by giving some of their 4th year students the chance to develop a project for the mentioned contest. In this period, the Fine Arts School of Oporto headmaster’s, the architect Carlos Ramos, was at the same time vice-president of the UIA, since 1959 - he had been elected at the General Assembly that took place in Lisbon, that year. The first prize of the contest was awarded to Spanish student Emilio Perez Piñero. Yet we believe the projects by the architecture students from Porto, the ones we know from the photographs by Teófilo Rego, present solutions, we think deserve a broader approach, so that, the cross-relations among the Carlos Ramos’ school, the proposed program for the contest by the UIA, and the relation with the Portuguese social and cultural context, particularly in the Theatre’s sphere.

2014-11Book part

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Trabalhando num arquivo. Uma abordagem integrada ao Fundo ”Teófilo Rego – Foto Comercial”

Publication . MATEUS, Joana; AZEVEDO, Inês

Este texto reflete sobre a constituição de um arquivo tendo como fundo o trabalho pessoal e comercial do fotógrafo portuense Teófilo Rego, entre os anos 40 e 90 do século XX. A Fundação Manuel Leão, através da Casa da Imagem, propõe desenvolver o seu estudo e dinamizar a sua divulgação em função de quatro objetivos fundamentais: dá-lo a conhecer ao público em geral, promover a sua investigação em diversas áreas do conhecimento científico e da criação artística e permitir à comunidade escolar a construção de aprendizagens significativas sobre o campo da produção das imagens. A presente colaboração com o Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo no projeto de investigação “Fotografia, Arquitectura Moderna e a «Escola do Porto»: interpretações em torno do Arquivo Teófilo Rego” contribui para a concretização deste conjunto de objectivos de forma integrada e significativa.

2015-07Book part

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