Monade x Columbia GSAPP
07.10.2021
Los Angeles 09:30
New York 12:30
Porto 17.30
Venice 18.30
Monade and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation will celebrate the first English edition of “Imagining the Evident” with a conversation between Álvaro Siza, Francesco Dal Co, Kenneth Frampton, Barry Bergdoll, Peter Testa and Daniela Sá.
Broadcast live in www.monadebooks.com and www.arch.columbia.edu
Read MoreJoão Gomes da Silva
When my eyes got used to the raw light of the North Coast, I contemplated sand, concrete steps, water flats between rocks, and the immense sea with the waves battling in foam. I remember thinking an obviousness, the obviousness of what Architecture is, and how it builds the Landscape. This moment changed my life, at the exact moment when I started to become a Landscape Architect.
Read MoreJonathan Sergison
More than any other architect I can think of, Álvaro Siza, has inspired me throughout my career. I first visited his buildings in Porto as a fourth-year student of architecture in 1987, although I had been aware of them throughout my studies. I was always profoundly moved by them, but they are buildings that have to been seen for their many qualities to be evident.
Read MoreGiven Alvaro Siza’s reluctance to describe his own work, any opportunity to delve back into his writing is precious, and the care that has gone into this small book fully justifies its publication.
Read MoreDaniela Sá
When Arnold Schoenberg critiqued the work of Adolf Loos, he remarked that the possibility of invention, “was in the modes of intuition”, adding, “and this is the most noble origin of a work of art.” Banishing the idea of invention from that of novelty by forms appears to be as essential to Schoenberg in the early twentieth century as it is to Álvaro Siza, a century later.
Read MoreDaniela Sá, João Carmo Simões
“E, ainda assim, se move!” Esta é a declaração da força vital do pensamento, do desejo que mora numa ideia que já é pensada, mas que, entretanto, ainda não a vemos. Esse desejo é o que chamamos de Projecto, essa coisa que é toda para a frente, toda futuro.
Read MoreCelebrating the English edition of “Imagining the Evident” a silkscreen is launched of a drawing specially selected by Álvaro Siza to accompany this book.
Read MoreThe little-known book from the most famous architectural exhibition of the 20th century. ”More a manifesto than a catalog”, this facsimile edition is the testimony of the exhibition that in 1932 inaugurated the Department of Architecture of the brand new Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Read MoreA partnership between the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and Monade now brings to you a selection of editions by Triennale.
Read MoreMonade Images is a curated selection of images made available exclusively through monade. Large scale photo quality print collection, in limited editions.
Read MoreJosé Neves
De facto, não me parece que, a partir do momento em que se construiu este edifício e este jardim, possa existir um arquitecto português que não se tenha referido alguma vez a uma das características singulares da Gulbenkian, a propósito do seu próprio trabalho.
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