Francisco Portugal e Gomes, Arquitecto

Profile of Francisco Portugal e Gomes, Arquitecto

Business Name

Francisco Portugal e Gomes, Arquitecto

Location

Portugal

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.franciscoportugal.com

Principal(s)

Francisco Portugal e Gomes (1963)

Philosophy

Architecture's Conscious Manifesto by Francisco Portugal e Gomes, architect

To rethink the Architecture today, in the age of global climatic modifications, it is to defend the Architecture as a collective practice that was not born from ruptures and protagonisms, yet shares continuities, and opposes resistance to the hastened vortex of the construction industry, which decimates the human habitat and natural ecosystems.

In the XXI century, the Architecture must be free. To say no to construction can be the first act in Architecture. The architect, as main agent of the Architecture, has the right to reveal without reserves its opposition to the construction of the insignificant, and has also the right to oppose the triviality of the arbitrary and unrooted forms.

The exercise of the Architecture carries the responsibility to contribute for the resolution of problems, including those of environmental, social and economical order. The architect must assume a conscientious role in the transformation of the present without compromising the future's future, must also participate enthusiastically in the process of the Architecture's gestation and must be the first one to question the relevancy of the construction. At every moment, the architect must always place the question: so what is the Architecture useful for?

The Architecture's work has, as main basis, the sustainability, the historical time, the collective memory, the context, the landscape, the tradition and the innovation, and reveals itself when the beauty and the individuality are born from sensitivity, the tolerant coexistence and the conscientious creativity.

The Architecture affirms itself with the exercise of the critical thought, as subject of knowledge and as essential element to the sustainable development; it does not have to impose itself nor quit to affirm its values.

The Architecture meets itself in the harmonious relation between diverse contents that bind themselves in each synthesis, which manifests itself through their own architectonic language, when intends to express a oneness between Time, Nature and Culture and can stir up the Being's close feeling in the physical space and in the Absolute of the Relative, through its body and in the conscience of its soul.

Background

• Founded: 2001
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 4

Key projects

• Social Housing Outeiro I - Special Rehousing Program, Maia, Portugal, 1996-1999 (in co-authorship with Joao Alvaro Rocha, architect)
• Milhundos House, Single family house, Penafiel, Portugal, 1996-2001
• Rehabilitation of the Senhora da Guia House, Single family house, Penafiel, Portugal, 1996-2005
• Gynaecology and Obstetrics Clinic, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, 2003-2005
• Refuge Pavilion, Small house, Penafiel, Portugal, 2003-2007
• Nuno Valinhas House, Single family house, Lousada, Portugal, 2004
• Bridge-Museum Academy - International Competition, Venice, Italy, 2006
• The Stockholm City Library, Architectural Competition, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
• Restaurant + Book-trade, Oporto, Portugal, 2004
• Loft in Oporto, Portugal, 2008

Key publications

• AV Monografias, n. s 86, Housing in Detail, Madrid, Spain, 2000
• Houses + Interiors North, ASA Editions, Oporto, Portugal, 2002
• Twenty-century Architecture's Inquiry in Portugal, Portuguese Association of the Architects, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006
• Arkinca, Revista de Arquitectura, Diseno y Construccion, n. s 131, Lima, Peru, 2006
• Casas Recuperadas, Caleidoscopio, Casal de Cambra, Portugal, 2006
• Rehabilitation de Casas Rurales, Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, Barcelona, Spain, 2007
• Casas Ibericas, Caleidoscopio, Casal de Cambra, Portugal, 2007
• Obradoiro, ns 33, Colexio Oficial de Arquitectos de Galicia, Spain, 2008
• Contemporary House Design, Daab, Cologne, Germany, 2008
• www.vitruvius.com.br/arquitextos/arq080/arq080_00.asp

Key awards

• Finalist of the Premis FAD 2000, Barcelona, Spain - Architecture Section, with the Social Housing Outeiro I - Special Rehousing Program - P.E.R, Maia, Portugal, 1996-1999 (in co-authorship with Joao Alvaro Rocha, architect)
• Second prize in the Restricted Contest, Municipal Public Library in Santo Tirso, Portugal, 1991
• Honourable Mention in the Public Contest for the Cultural Building in the Enclosure of Palacio de Cristal, Oporto, Portugal, 1994 (in co-authorship with Joao Alvaro Rocha, architect)
• First Prize in the Restricted Contest by Previous Qualification for the Universitary Student's Dwelling of the Universitary Pole in Alto da Ajuda, Lisbon, 1996 (in co-authorship with Joao Alvaro Rocha, architect)
• First Prize in the Contest for the Conception / Construction of the Urban Park in Moutidos, Maia, 1997
• Second prize in the Restricted Contest for the Touristic Undertaking Quinta do Vale Covo, Portugal, 2004
• Honourable Mention in the International Contest for the Bridge-Museum Academy, Venice, Italy, 2006