Thirteen Architectures / [presented by] Amâncio Guedes.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Guedes, Amancio, 1925-2015, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (29 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Summary:

Guedes is a man of many faces, many names. He says that Pancho Guedes is the inventor of all the art and architecture; Amâncio Guedes is the spirit of Pancho Guedes. Amâncio d'Alpoim Guedes is the real Guedes, who was born Portuguese, educated in South Africa and lived and worked for twenty five years in Mozambique before being forced into exile. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In Lourenco Marques, Guedes "invented and built enough buildings to make up a good-sized city". Everything he built was imaginative, economical, and had a strong presence. Now he has become a teacher whose self-appointed task is "to explore the borders of architecture, to expand its territories, to illuminate the new lands and signpost them for his students and himself". He says: "I believe that buildings grow out of each other, that each artist invents his own precursors, that there is an incessant dialogue with many pasts... I have worked in many styles simultaneously... I have classified my architectural inventions into a number of families and filed them... into a catalogue of twenty five architectures... my Vitruvius Mozambicanus". For his talk he has chosen thirteen of these architectures: • Stiloguedes • The American-Egyptian style • How Frank Lloyd Wright used to help me in the beginning • Bargains in a bush style • A collection of disparate churches • Grass houses • Temporary towers, slabs, and slices of street face • Buildings with walls twisting and turning this way and that • My arched and somewhat Roman manner • Parts of villages remembering other villages, far away in my mother country • Euclidian palaces • The passages, steps, places, squares and monuments of the imaginary city • Learning machines of all sizes.

Contents:

Pancho Guedes In London, 198000Smiling Lion', Carreiro De Tiro, Lourenco Marques

Pyramidal Kindergarten, Sommerschield, Lourenco Marques & Ground Floor Plan

"Yes House", Lhanguene, Lourenco Marques

Barclays Bank DCO, Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques

House For Missionary At Macuvulane, Magude, Sul Do Save, Mozambique

Congregational Church & House, Choupal, Near Lourenco Marques

S. Cipriano Do Chamanculo Church, Lourenco Marques & Ground Floor Plan

S. Cipriano Do Chamanculo. Interior

Clandestine Nursery School In The Canico, Lourenco Marques

Cofre Privativo Do Corpo Da Policia, Alto Da Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques

Office Building On Praca Macmahon. Lourenco Marques

Hotel, S. Martinho Do Bilene, Bilene, Sul Do Save. Section & Perspective

The Famous Plan (Left) Of The Hotel Of S. Martinho Gazes Lovingly At Its Own Beautiful Roof Plan (Right)

"The Habitable Woman", Nelspruit, Transvaal, With Plan At Entrance Level

Red House, Sommerschield, Lourenco Marques

Belgarde Da Silva Housing, Polana, Lourenco Marques

Stone Mural, Antonio Ennes Housing, Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques

"House Of The Broken Pediment", Encosta Da Polana, Lourenco Marques

Casa Salm, Sommerschield, Lourenco Marques

Sutton Monument, Sutton Close, University Of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Primary School At Antioka Mission Station. Magude, Sul Do Save

Khovolar, Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques

Train Tower

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 21, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.