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- On architecture as project-oriented Method Tojal, Moreira and Roxo: A case study”Publication . Antunes, Sandra Sofia Pereira; Helena Souto, MariaFocussing on the statements of a group of architects from Lisbon’s School of Fine Arts, founders of the Multiplano atelier, this lecture offers an insight into the development of a project-oriented-culture within those circles. Their quest, which involved abandoning all dogmatic form, standing against geniality and individual inspiration, contributed to the implementation of processes, imagistic ideologies and activity relating to what by the late 50s, quite silently given its inherent socialist connotations, was being inaugurated in Portugal under the aegis of the term Design. This study uses historiographical and applied research methodology, based on the discovery of Multiplano’s archives and a subsequent inventory of their work and collaborators. The discovery of a particular document by Carlos Roxo brought to the discussion specific concepts like Useful, Scientific Aesthetic, Architecture as Visual Art and the Organic Materialist Method. Stimulating interaction between art, science, emotion, technology and the common Man; claiming the architect to be an artist, whose metier is a form of arts-based research (which by means of Scientific Aesthetics instigates debate on architecture’s syntax, semantics, method and utility), our protagonists provide an ideological and professional testimony on the growing awareness of a science of design in Portugal.
- An experience of synthesis and freedom: space and design in Portugal post-world war IIPublication . Antunes, Sandra Sofia Pereira; Souto Nunes, Maria HelenaThis paper analyses a domestic space designed amidst cultural tension in Portugal, within a context defined by nearly a quarter of a century of autarky by the 1950s. Striving for a reformed way of living, Carlos Tojal’s first home, ‘the burrow’, contrary to the endemic practices, comprised a modern ‘manifesto’, simultaneously functionalist and organicist. What were Tojal’s contributions, as architect and interior designer, in questioning modern living and the design culture of autarkic Portugal? Away from the nationalistic, historical and folkloric themes endorsed by the Dictatorship, his proposals aspire towards democracy and the practice of design as project, comprising the modern and its contradictions. The research, supported by historiographical-based methods, began with a heuristic process, through bibliographical research and inventory of sources from the studio’s collection, complemented by library and archive research, resulting in the current hermeneutical approach towards a prospective understanding of the works in question, leading to the research topics outlined. Through hermeneutical interpretation, a design culture in which arts and crafts interact and complement each other emerges. In his first home - ‘the burrow’ -, the idea of a ‘lost paradise’ was reflected in the permeability of human and natural spaces, welcoming the informal and jovial environment.