描述
12 selected works 1994-2025
This book presents an exhaustive overview of more than three decades of architectural practice by the studio led by Manuel Ventura (Porto, 1967), an architect who trained at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto.
The selection of twelve projects built in Porto and other Portuguese cities—from the CUF Hospital and the Bom Sucesso Interchange to residential buildings such as Serralves, Ocean, and Essenza—provides an understanding of how the research carried out in the studio is materialised in works that integrate into the city and the landscape, taking into account both the urban scale and the everyday experience of their users.
The work of Ventura & Partners, internationally recognised with distinctions from the Chicago Athenaeum, The Plan Award and the Architecture MasterPrize, is presented in this volume as a practice based on technical knowledge, constructive experimentation and mastery of the craft. Each project functions as a testing ground where types, systems and solutions are researched, refined and evolved in successive works, forming a coherent, open and constantly changing body of work. In this sense, the studio reveals itself as a living organism, capable of adapting to diverse contexts and programmes without losing the consistency of a method that places architecture at the crossroads between discipline, city and life.
The publication stands out for the depth and quality of its graphic documentation. Each project is presented through photographs, sketches, general plans and construction details that allow the reader to understand the entire process, from the initial idea to the finished building.
The volume includes four critical essays by José Bernardo Távora, Elia Bernardos, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos and José Gigante, as well as a conversation with Manuel Fernandes Sá.
On the work of Manuel Ventura
Elia María Bernardos Jiménez
On the architecture of Manuel Ventura
José Bernardo Távora
The type as a disciplinary instrument in housing architecture
Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos
Experimentation as method
José Gigante
Manuel Ventura + Partners
Carlos Guimarães
From the urban project at the School of Architecture to its realisation in Porto’s built reality
Manuel Fernandes Sá
Aliança Building. Porto. Portugal
Bom Sucesso Interface. Porto. Portugal
Andresas Viaduct. Porto. Portugal
Serralves Building. Porto. Portugal
CUF Hospital. Porto. Portugal
Ocean Building. Vila Nova de Gaia. Portugal
Chantre House. Matosinhos. Portugal
Primavera Building. Braga. Portugal
Nefrodouro Hemodialysis Clinic. Santa Maria da Feira. Portugal
Essenza Building. Porto. Portugal
Marília House. Maia. Portugal
Souto House. Maia. Portugal
