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A arquitectura é uma arte? | Nuno Valentim | TEDxMatosinhos


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good evening
I thank you very much for the invitation
your particular organization and the
friend Susana year head strength
treatment and commitment and I could not
Send me a hug too, my friend.
pedro baganha and colleague that I liked
much of the organization with
generosity fought good but yes of the ju
that the reason that invited me to be
here has to do with what we have
coming to do and born of the faith and did
just to meet you again
we did very little visible things
such as the state of crops
of the Palace of the Bourse
restoration and rehabilitation of neighborhoods
work for many years
many colleagues did not like us much
we have always found it very interesting
and with great impact on people’s lives
once again without great visibility and
with great impact by god
made more visible things such as
example the expansion of the school’s
of the port and in this framework
very sensitive says house and saints 1 do
an extraordinary building of the
60s
we also made the first support center for
immigrants in the harbor the center would be
at a time when this subject was
hit so much we create email from
the country program of Portugal
host major interventions in the
port botanical garden in this house
the house only once and we won
some recognition like this the award
the beloved in this building of the
silva and also with probably in
both the national award of
urban rehabilitation also with houses
flooded in the botanical garden
but we won again being white we are
we are also responsible for the current
bolhão market design
I will not talk about any of these
projects because I think it will be
much more interesting is with a
way of perceiving how it is
construct an idea a proposal of the
architecture and judges often had
is where ideas come to make a
difficult project an assistant and I
I think there are people who know
exactly where and why that makes you there
others who do not know very well think
this is an enlightened idea that comes from
sky is and artists
in some cases there was a path that
it did not work and someone said it was
designer who has a lot is very handsome
but it does not work
and it is a thing that is quite
used to hearing the work it takes
usually be a lot more work
simple than a true
work of simple enlightenment and
inspiration and yet I would say kt a
main raw material of our
job
the circumstances are the circumstances
complementary time for our
the port school used and that in fact
It is very is very effective for
circumstance our raw material and the
historical temporal circumstances
physical symbolic social
inspiration
we have the first campus shows and
only flash back to not knead the
crew chapel we did with the center
directed by the Jesuits here in the port
was once a hole in a corner of the
garden then there inside two buildings
very little of saints and very soon
interesting that the proposal had to
to cancel that hole and that it was a
The chapel has a great possibility of
khan buildings was off our shores that
take advantage of the resulting geometry
since it was almost an abstraction and
which has this symbolic force which is
possible for a person to look in the mirror
before entering
fell was in perfectly prime
15 for being a machine in the works
thus a theme around which we
we saw each other as friends and we talked and
maturana and therefore all our work is
a job of trying to solve this with
of potential candidate problems
constructive problems had the problems
made without losing this
intention and this poetry
the paper had also been installed
it should rain during the sessions of the
year this scenario life is past
a days chapel and free life and not
inward facing
and curiously two years later we walk
us the correct key that after discovering
that this plastic artist or tangram
since the 1960s I have been working
This issue of reflection and
body in space has been detained this
presence within the same
space your multiples can be
observed trio is in the interior and this
permanent dilution of the end
limit and fact we give our focus is
really our plate and we discovered the
gunpowder and people think it’s
much longer than us and around
these issues and the way systems
of studying billions was built and in
and close and analogies to
chapel of these two faces of Santa
bring another project that I really like
because it is part of a kind of
insensitivity and will be acesa goianiense
and in the port the Christian youth session
transformed by a crazy pair of
in 2007 in a
craft your a double mouth because
if it is a fact that visionaries realize that
the port was a highly
Fantastic changeover 20 minutes from
airport still with sawa the handmade faith
can make textile and
have proposed this reverse route that
the garment was doing later
of the city
They proposed within the city and within
if difficult marvelous course focuses and
this will be the hall that we find
inside who was a little the
Made This Was I Was An English Club
and Protestants is the room gave both
little time counted for the parties and
this I needed space needed
the physical space to put the
machines and covered the 50s to put the
50 jobs that they would
create something remarkable in the city center
the return of a function like this is
a 50 size work investment
foreign
we have to do whatever is
in our reach for the fact do not let
to leave while keeping as much as
possible of the building and so was
and for this was the clean table we
we proposed
in counterpoint to the table that does not
as the front geometry is
possible if we want to and that we
many times I have also discovered more
afternoon
with this surgery work that is not
enemy down does at your premises
and the patients inside and I
I call this delicacy as
is that not m
images finding points
coincidence with existing passes
percent with which the images introduce
within the space a
very subtle is the relationship but it is very
but it is very uncertain
is like an image introduced in the
space the stage to reveal that hiding
also often said it is a
transformation of continuity
and this huh this is something I think
also characterizes our school
the port school nor act and transform
in continuity to the party and another image
changeable stop as Surprise
continuation of this path between the
side and how we have there also in this
this point, we are
always act by calling including
invitingly
this is a final image and this is a
picture that I like a lot
inside the one dry hall are 9 50
will work in a
new life inside the building
this other university center that
we build in coimbra and a house air
new 1929 this picture already bought
farewell to the house to maintain despite having
to mess because also the center of
university study to have to
her functions that she had a
house character
this is a chapel that produce in
floor and here summons others one
great artist guard
matta-clark a man who lived a lot
a short time he died very young and phase
this within existing buildings
would open
this step is a new a new limit
with geometric shape end in the background
we read the inside
of buildings that did not in
we had realized that there was
when we act in a pre-existence
much of our work and this is
this is already an image of the center in
coimbra is the new relationship we have created
between the kitchen support rooms for
create a more flexible use of
how was it?
there is no such culture and this is a
new room created in the background agreed room
where is this picture taken from?
and this mess that was opened in the
chapel for the mermaid’s garden and for
finish tacos plus two but two
situations a little bit different here
have you seen the performances where
strength of our afterthought to
we find analogies with the
work of actual plastic artists
plastic artists filmmakers
writers not far ahead and this
is a different case and when
architecture also a platform gives
a standard of chewing gum in the area of
know that to make one so essential
a little house we need to get to
camera about 11 different designs
and the architect the synthes man who
synthesizes all this knowledge of
different and I can always bring this
institution
the project then this house caught this
house because the bar is a big
political chicana is in this house has this
famous China that contains all the
architecture manuals that my son
the joão when we visited the house in 2009
and I was very close to the barbecue
a Mexican plastic artist who has
this famous famous work also
gaucho pink on blue background and china
is the famous hr swimming pool is a class
direct transposition of this
god painting communicated a lot and they did
several rehearsals together and we in the garden
botanist in the house to know by force of
a relationship so close that we have
had with many plastic and
particularly with twins Luiz the famous
illustrator sculptor designer can
transform this is uninteresting
couples house says botanical garden
how is the territory in garages in
home study house is a miracle
or coffee in the background of students
university are passing by.
some steps in but some steps
pictures of the interior
I am before and this is already too little
value we went to get what we had
value a very economical work very
contained in very little area but
luiz allowed that the house thus has
a dimension that transcends itself
because together with us the
draws awaits the handrail of this
space as in the form of a sculpture
an animal a kind of a mud beach
who signs and tim lopes leaves the house with
I see you at last entry
in the house
in house anderson sophia egg case
mello panty and that was much more
darkened because it is actually a
privilege because it has so much power
to concretize a poetic prophecy and
why this happened because they are
images of the house when she reopened
public in 2010 to receive the
tarot display on a new ladder
we had to enter stairs
original
greenhouses, which are just wonderful
years of the French cop that were
recovered
I spoke but only visit the sofia as
You know how the house and the
gardens often throughout their
work is to write via the house and
concretely central courtyard statue
where the basics took place
four will have a very technology
interesting this big house
uncommon in the port a central space
with the steps the remaining spaces
surrounding that fia described in the saga
in the history of land and sea
I wrote this space everything in the house was
been discussed long ago since 4
sleeping on the children walked
to the normative and for which
they gave all the rooms and in which
hanes said if he could arm the skeleton
of the whale that he had been using for years
packaged in numerous volumes in the
caves of the college foundation of
sciences for not listening or
where to convince the sister
because it is true that the whale was
in the de facto natural history museum
we can restore it there and recover it
bring her back to the house atrium
anderson
was already the first interpretation
of the Saga of Earth and Sea Stories
of sophia from the line of douro lacquered
are already seeing the cause of the balaia
would return to the space where the
in fact prophesied that it might be a
day is with this realization that
once in a lifetime the architect of
a poetic prophecy
thank you
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