Promontorio : architecture and the reflective practice / edited by Gerrit Confurius ; contributions by Ana Vaz Milheiro [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Confurius, Gerrit, 1946- editor.

Milheiro, Ana Vaz, 1968- contributor.

Promontório Arquitectos.

Standardized Title:

Promontorio (Hatje Cantz)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Promontório Arquitectos.

Architecture--Portugal.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

447 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Architecture and the reflective practice

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Hatje Cantz, [2023]

Summary:

This publication features projects that the partnership PROMONTORIO developed over the past 30 years. Together they constitute an impressive body of work for various places across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the USA, ranging from city planning, to culture and education, heritage and conservation, commercial and mixed-use, in addition to hospitality and leisure. The idea of a reflective practice, set forth by PROMONTORIO, summons the ability to critically and ethically reflect on its own actions, while engaging in a process of continuous adaptation and learning. Perceived as a kind of "practicing school" for various generations in Portugal, the practice evolved, in both theory and practice, through the idea that deliberate reflection on experience is essential to cultivate a developmental insight on architecture.

Contents:

Foreword / Gerrit Confurius

Notes from a conversation with João Luís Ferrerira and Paulo Martins Barata / Gerrit Confurius

Wall-and-slab

Telheiras Housing

Telheiras Balconies / Nuno Cera

The Rules of the Game / Kenneth Frampton

Oleiros Courtyard Housing

Town&Country Raumplan / Diogo Seixas Lopes

Oriente Complex

Lubango Centre

Building in Angola: Lubango Center / Ana Vaz Milheiro

Embassy of Egypt

Casa da Matriz

Post-and-lintel

Open-Sky Architecture

Open-Sky Architecture / André Tavares

Plot 1.10/Band of Portugal

Bloco Carnide

Monolithic Ensemble / Rafaël Magrou

Xerox Centre

A Buidling without Qualities / Yehuda E. Safran

Braamcamp 11

Praça de Entrecampos

Bonjardim

Fins

DSBG Universität Basel

GS1 Portugal

Harvard Square Theatre

Latitude

Manateq HQ

Mora River Aquarium

Evidence of structure

Matosinhos Retail Park

Beato 1904

Berner Fachhochschule

Quinta Do Mar Hotel

Mercado Das Nações

Honeycombs and euclidean prisms

Park Kindergarten

King's College School Cascais

Bassadone HQ

Church of St. John the Baptist

Return to vernacular

Largo Camões

Casa da Volta

Jardins de Grândola

Patio House

Egyptian Ambassador's Residence

Travessa Dos Pentes 7

Intercontinental Vale do Lobo Hotel

Constructing the landscape

Quinta de Santo António Hotel

Casa Cook Hotel

Solar da Rede Hotel

Macro-scale and public realm

Maputo-South State Plan

Rafal Living Tower

Aleppo Opera House

Artilharia 1

Portugália

Alcácer Riverfront

Lu Mainz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3775752358

9783775752350

OCLC:

1294452848