Launching soon the 5th number of Sophia Journal | Lançamento e apresentação da publicação para breve
Visual Spaces of Change: Designing Interiority - shelter, shape, place, atmosphere and Image
Guest Editors
Fátima Pombo (UA / DECA | ID+)
Silvina Félix (UA / ESAN | ID+)
ISBN:978-989-54878-3-7
ISSN: 2183-8976
Scientific Advisory Board (AAI-CEAU-FAUP)
Research group Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) integrated in R&D of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) called Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo (CEAU)
The 5th number of Sophia Journal, titled Visual Spaces of Change: Designing Interiority - shelter, shape, place, atmosphere is coming out soon.
To dwell and to build is not an art, is not a technique, but a realm where things belong. This is a statement addressed by Heidegger in Bauen Wohnen Denken, his text more connected with
architecture that is more contemporary than ever.
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On the shoulders of these inspiring ideas and experiences, the plot for the 5th number of Sophia was designed. It called original articles that discuss the core of interiority in architecture as a matter open to diverse ideas and practices in the realm of built space to be experienced by its dwellers. Interiority to be argued as a dimension that differentiates a place of a non-place. The non-places are spots with which the individual does not create any relation; they are transit-places without memory, identity, history, personal construction, references, emotions of which solace is not a minor one. Interiority claims that kind of space that accommodates thoughts, dreams, nightmares, intimacy, changes, silence, noise, neurosis...life. Shelter, shape, place, atmosphere portray scenarios that enhance experiences, events, occurrences beyond the functionalistic rhetoric enveloping them. All the texts that compose this issue display the strong insights the authors chose to approach the proposed topic. They trigger new thoughts and new questions. Three articles and an interview appear as the hard core of this volume.
Fátima Pombo
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Other featured texts can be read as the magnificent interview of Danish Designer Hans Thyge entitled The Power of Imagination by Guest Editor Fátima Pombo which offers valuable insight into the process and tools of this designer’s professional practice. Next are two probing critical texts, each written by a different architect curator - Nuno Grande and António Choupina - both of whom are very close to the work of Pritzker architect Álvaro Siza. Their readings focus on Siza’s architecture when analyzing two photography series by Mark Durden and João Leal from the collection “The Idea of Álvaro Siza”. These series focused on the Carlos Ramos Pavilion, Bouça Council Housing Project and Serralves Museum, published in a special edition of scopionewspaper, and both Nuno Grande and António Choupina offer a differentiated understanding of Siza’s oeuvres and his mastery of light and shadow, which the lens of the two photographers have so well conveyed. In Reviews we have Mark Durden’s remarkable text “Light Catcher” that tells us how the performances of the photographer Peter Finnemore reveal his relationship to the medium of photography and the way he apprehends and plays with light. Finally, in the essay “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” the editor of scopio Editions starts by contextualizing the upcoming book “Valerio Olgiati - Bas Princen. A Talk on Architecture in Photography - Images from Valerio Olgiati Personal Archive and Photographs by Bas Princen” to be published in 2021, which is based on the last Duelo/Dueto conference of Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) series that took place at the Casa das Artes and the work that followed with the authors. The physical books about these Duelo/Dueto conferences, for their part, offer the reader an understanding of what was discussed and debated coming from a different perspective, affording each viewer the proper time for deeper thinking.
Pedro Leão Neto
In Volume 5 of Sophia the following papers have been selected
Topic Papers
Pedro Bandeira Maia, Raul Pinto: Preserving Heritage Through New Narratives: designing a guesthouse within a multidisciplinary team | Speaker: Raul Pinto
Bárbara dos Santos Coutinho, Ana Tostões: The Role of Architecture for an Exhibition Engaging and Meaningful Aesthetic Experience | Speaker: Bárbara dos Santos Coutinho
José António Bandeirinha, Rui Aristides: The modern Shelter: Laugier or Ledoux, metaphormosis or ex-novo, architecture for modern subjects and powers | Speaker: Rui Aristides
Featured Texts
Interview The Power of Imagination - an interview to designer Hans Thyge by Fátima Pombo
Miscellany Critical essays: In praise of light and shadows by Nuno Grande and Des yeux qui ne voient pas by António Choupina about about photography series The Idea of Álvaro Siza of Mark Durden and João Leal
Reviews “Light Catcher” by Mark Durden and “About the book: A Talk on Architecture in Photography” by Pedro Leão Neto
Sophia Journal #5 is published by scopio Editions and will be out soon.