We went to consult archives in Porto!
Between the 18th and 20th of November 2019, we moved to another city and went to the Porto institutions to consult their archives: we started at the headquarters of Northern Regional Section of the Order of Architects (OASRN) and then to the Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUP) and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP). We thank those who received us so well: in the OA, Dra. Lígia Filipe Sampaio (librarian and archivist) and the architect Cláudia Santos (direction of OASRN); in FBAUP, Dra. Isabel Barroso; and, in FAUP, Dra. Teresa Godinho. We returned to Lisbon with new data, new questions and a lot of desire to continue!
Eileen Gray, Total Art: house E.1027 to scale 1:1
On November 20, 2019, the researcher of the project W@ARCH.PT, Lia Gil Antunes, participated as a speaker in the symposium of the exhibition opening "Eileen Gray, Total Art: house E.1027 to scale 1:1", invited by the architect Carolina Leite, in the city of Porto. The event was organized by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in partnership with O’Neil Ford Chair in Architecture at University of Texas at Austin, USA. For the first time in this school we talked about how to “Get out of the Shadow” and presented the research project W@ARCH.PT and women architects in Portugal.
Full symposium available on video.
Interview with the architect Cristina Veríssimo
On the 12th of November 2019 we had the pleasure of talking with the architect Cristina Veríssimo, within the scope of the research project W@ARCH.PT and of the team's participation in the elaboration of contents of a future global encyclopedia about women in architecture (BGEWIA, 2021). Co-founder of the CVDB atelier in 1999 with Diogo Burnay, Cristina Veríssimo has been working in the design practice of architecture and as a teacher of design at Dalhousie University, in Canada.
We thank architect Cristina for her generosity and availability. We hope to meet soon!
Interview with the architect Lucinda Correia
On November 6, 2019, we spoke with the architect Lucinda Correia no CIEG-ISCSP/ULisboa, within the scope of the research project W@ARCH.PT and the participation of the team in the elaboration of contents for a future global encyclopedia about women in architecture (BGEWIA, 2021). The architect and researcher co-founded the studio Artéria with Ana Jara in 2011, where she worked until the beginning of 2019. Artéria was one of the first architectural firms founded by two women in Portugal.
We thank architect Lucinda for her generosity and availability. We hope to meet soon!