a+u 2018:07 Aires Mateus
Content
This issue of a+u is our first monograph dedicated to Aires Mateus, an architectural practice run by two brothers, Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus based in Lisbon, Portugal. Over the last thirty years, Aires Mateus has gained international
recognition for their poetic, yet respectful contemporary reinterpretation of Portuguese architectural tradition.
Although their projects have increased in scale, they have kept by their belief in paying careful attention to details and constantly exploring through experiments on ways to innovate with light and form. They play with the idea of timelessness, but work to keep this idea of permanence in their design. This conscientious articulation of their spaces to capture time is present not only in those newly built projects, but even more so visible in their preservation projects working with the traces of the past.
a+u Aires Mateus includes:
Introduction
Time is the Raw Material
Ricardo Carvalho
Interview
Architecture as an Art of Permanence
Manuel Aires Mateus
Works
House in Azeitão
Santa Marta Lighthouse Museum
Monitoring and Investigation Centre and
Accommodation for Researchers in Furnas
Houses for Elderly People in Alcácer do Sal
House in Monsaraz
Atelier Cecílio de Sousa
House in Alcobaça
Primary School in Vila Nova da Barquinha
EDP Headquarters
House in the Alentejo Coast
House in Ajuda
House in Melides I
House in Time
Meeting Centre in Grândola
RADIX / Common Ground
House in Melides II
Santa Clara 1728
House in Estrela
Renovation of the Trinity College
Faculty of Architecture in Tournai
Olivier Debré Contemporary Creation Centre
Fenda – 15th Biennale di Architettura di Venezia
Essay Series, vol. 3
The Evolution of Temple and Shrine Structures
Suguru Kanata
