PHOTOGRAPHY, MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND THE "ESCOLA DO PORTO": INTERPRETATIONS ON TEÓFILO REGO ARCHIVE

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Teófilo Rego e os arquitectos do Porto, uma relação profissional

Publication . Maia, Maria Helena; Trevisan, Alexandra

Teófilo Rego trabalhou nos anos 50 e 60 do século XX em estreita colaboração com os arquitectos formados na Escola de Belas Artes do Porto. Vários projectos e obras construídas por estes arquitectos foram fotografados por Teófilo Rego com um inegável profissionalismo. As imagens resultantes das fotografias de desenhos, maquetas e obras construídas foram usadas em publicações, exposições e concursos e, apesar de muitas vezes o fotógrafo permanecer anónimo, contribuíram para o reconhecimento profissional dos arquitectos e daquela que ficou conhecida como a “Escola do Porto”. Nesta texto pretendemos articular a fotografia de Teófilo Rego tanto com a encomenda dos arquitectos como com as suas obras, contribuindo deste modo para o alargamento do campo disciplinar da História da Fotografia na sua articulação com a História da Arquitectura Moderna, e ainda, identificar as potencialidades do registo fotográfico enquanto ferramenta para o desenvolvimento de novas interpretações da História da Arquitectura.

2015-09Book part

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Lacunas and their interpretations: a contemporary look at the photographic work of Teófilo Rego

Publication . AZEVEDO, Inês; MATEUS, Joana; PESTANA, Assunção

2013-03Book part

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Mediating and Materializing / Perceiving and Participating: an exhibition script on Photography and Architecture

Publication . MATEUS, Joana; AZEVEDO, Inês

It is up to the Educational Service (ES) of the Casa da Imagem Museum (MCI) to conceive a final exhibition of the research project Photography, Modern Architecture and the "Porto School": Interpretations of the Teófilo Rego Archive (FAMEP) (Fotografia, Arquitectura Moderna e a «Escola do Porto»: Interpretações em torno do Arquivo Teófilo Rego (FAMEP)). The elements to consider for the creation of this exhibition include: Teófilo Rego’s photographs, the theoretical production developed within this project, the public and the MCI’s structural guidelines. Following the MCI’s guidelines, which require the construction of a specific relationship between the public and the image field – a relationship of rendezvous, participation and approximation –, the ES is responsible for the creation of an exhibitory structure that accomplishes two functions: on one hand, to reflect the scientific scope of the project according to the theoretical interpretations that have been produced by its research team; and on the other hand, to mediate between those contents and the visiting public, through exhibitory objects that simultaneously entail the issue of seeing. With this presentation, the ES aims to reflect on its role as a mediator, defining how mediation restricts the exhibitory script, how it materializes into an object and how it is made available to the public. We thus identify as fields of mediation / materialization, firstly, photographs: their place within the research project and the way in which they will be revealed in the exhibition. Secondly, the researchers’ theoretical production: the selection of the photographs to be shown and the construction of the scenographic arguments that compose and contextualize those same photographs. These arguments seek to understand the relationships between the genesis and the final photographic product, as well as the place of the photographer within the History of Photography in Portugal. Finally, the public: perception – the visualization of a set of photographs and visual essays, the presence of the body within a scenographic representation – and the participation – constructing new images and contents.

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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