Profession: Távora

Jorge Figueira

doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/19734

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Jorge Figueira Centre for Social Studies, Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra

Jorge Figueira graduated in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (1992) and had his PhD degree at the University of Coimbra (2009) in the field of History and Theory. He is associate professor of the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, and was its director between 2010 and 2017. Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, where he was vice-president of the Scientific Board between 2019 and 2022. He was visiting researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo and he is visiting professor of the Escola da Cidade, São Paulo. Author of several books on contemporary architecture and curator of exhibitions including “What? When? Why not? Portuguese architecture”, Casa da Arquitectura (2021/2022), “Physics of Portuguese Heritage. Architecture and Memory”, Museu de Arte Popular, Lisboa, Direcção-Geral do Património Cultural (2018-2019) and “Oscillations. Eduardo Souto de Moura”, Camões-Centro Cultural Português, Maputo, Moçambique (2016). He was Principal Investigator of the research project (EU)ROPA – Rise of Portuguese Architecture (FCT). Has presented his research in universities and institutions, namely IASTE, SAH and EAHN and has published texts in several publications and journals, namely Casabella and Journal of Architecture.

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Being Portuguese, Modernism, Pessimism, American Journey, Fernando Pessoa

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It is the decadence that Oswald Spengler predicts for after 2000 that Fernando Távora already encounters at every step of his mythical American journey. It is this “cultural pessimism”, the matrix of “decline”, that marks his life forever, even if the “springtime” with which he was formed is omnipresent: Le Corbusier and Picasso, the modernists like baroque angels, the modernism that then fluttered and rebuilds his beloved Brazil; and Fernando Pessoa, who was decline and ascension in reverse order, with an entourage of heteronyms to deal with the complexities of life.

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Costa, Alexandre Alves. Sentido ou falta de sentido do ser português. Orações de Sapiência. Porto: Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, 2016.

Lourenço Eduardo. “Even today the Portuguese go around the world picking up the bones of the Empire.” JA-Jornal Arquitectos, no. 237 (October-November-December 2009): 47 (“Ser Português”, Collection and setting of the text by MGD, AVM, JF).

Távora, Fernando. “Escola Primária do Cedro, Vila Nova de Gaia.” In Luiz Trigueiros, ed., Fernando Távora, 86-90. Lisbon: Editorial Blau, 1993.

Távora Fernando. Diário de “bordo”, 1960, original manuscript. Porto: Fundação Marques da Silva/Arquivo Fernando Távora.

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