描述
This volume completes the task started with TC57, and continued with TC102 / 103 , to show the public in detail the architectural production of Joao Alvaro Rocha , one of the most interesting architects of recent Portuguese architecture, which having Considering the high level of architecture in this country, it is saying a lot.
Souto de Moura, in the interview included in this monograph, states that two things have changed the image of Porto: the Metro and Ryanair.
I do not know if there is any relationship between Rocha and Ryanair, but I can assure you from the content of this issue that the relationship between Rocha and the Porto metro has been very fruitful.
It couldn’t possibly be otherwise, Rocha feels secure in objective processes, that is, those projects in which construction is the fundamental support of architecture.
For this reason, the reader in this set of proposals will observe, in the same way as in TC102 / 103 dedicated to collective and isolated housing, the same coherence. Ramón Sanabria calls it precision, “everything becomes coherent and nothing can be dissociated”. Perhaps we could also talk about order, systematization, method, etc.
All this in a natural way, as if what the public observed had not represented an enormous previous work. The Ponte de Lima Tourism House, which appears on the cover of this issue, is an expression of the above. A single action allows the appearance of an integrated and new public space respecting the memory of the place.
In short, this monograph, in the same way as the previous ones dedicated to Rocha, basically contains a repertoire of solutions.
I want to end these lines by quoting Eduardo Souto de Moura again. In the aforementioned interview he says: “I have never seen a degraded work by Rocha”
For an Ethical Architecture
Ramon Sanabria
Principles of uncertainty, precise territories
Ricardo Merí de la Maza
A conversation about architecture, and João Álvaro Rocha…
with Eduardo Souto de Moura
NORTEGOLFE
Conversion of the Main Building. Golf of the Quinta do Pisão. Portugal
FUNERAL CHAPEL.
Viana do Castelo. Portugal
MAISMAIA.
Office Building in Maia. Portugal
PADIMAT.
Commercial Space in Maia. Portugal
CENTER OF HIGH PERFORMANCE SPORTS
S. João da Madeira. Portugal
NEW HEADQUARTERS OF LÚCIO’S.
Office Building in Maia. Portugal
SANJOTEC
Incubator for Research and Technological Development of
S. João da Madeira Companies . Portugal
URBANIZATION OF ARIS.
Old Quarter of Valls. Barcelona. Spain
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION COMPLEX
Urban Park in Castêlo da Maia. Maia. Portugal
TOURIST POSITION
Galleries, Exhibitions and Outdoor Spaces. Ponte de Lima. Portugal
MUSEUM OF THE SANFERMINES.
Pamplona. Spain
PORTO METRO. Maia. Portugal
Station and Urban Insertion in Industrial Zone. Maia. Portugal
Porto Metro. Maia. Portugal
Station and Urban Insertion in Castêlo da Maia. Portugal
Porto Metro. Castêlo da Maia. Portugal
ÉVORA-NORTE STATION.
High Speed Railway Line
Poceirão-Caia Section. Lisbon-Madrid axis
RAILWAY STATIONS
Costa del Sol Railway Corridor. Malaga. Spain
In collaboration with Francisco Mangado Beloqui
MARINA DE VILAMOURA PORT.
Algarve. Portugal
LUXEXPO EXHIBITION PARK. KIRCHBERG STATION.
Kirchberg. Luxembourg
In collaboration with Francisco Mangado Beloqui
LAVRADIO-BARREIRO STATION
High Speed Railway Line. Lisbon-Poceirão Section Lisbon
-Madrid Axis. Portugal
NEW INTERMODAL STATION.
Pray. Spain
In collaboration with Eduardo Souto Moura
ARANZANDI PARK.
Pamplona. Spain
HEADQUARTERS OF THE STATE MUSEUM COLLECTIONS CENTER
Expansion of the National Historical Archive. Madrid. Spain
In collaboration with Ramón Sanabría, Antonio Cayuelas
HOSPITAL DE LA POLÍCIA DE YAOUNDÉ
General Delegation for National Security. Republic of Cameroon
In collaboration with Ramón Sanabría
CENTRO SOCIAL DE S. ROSENDO
S. Miguel do Couto. Holy Tirso. Portugal
QUINTA DO CORREIO MOR URBANIZATION.
Loures. Portugal
