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More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a function), the territory where it is integrated and with time and the way in which built forms evolve.
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List of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIntroductionSérgio Padrão Fernandes, João Silva Leite, Carlos Dias Coelho1. The invention of an Atlas of buildings
Carlos Dias CoelhoPart I . PROGRAMME 2. Urban Blocks made up by Collective Housing
Rui Justo3. Churches. Portuguese 16th-18th Century Uncanny buildings: Rules and Exceptions
Paulo Pereira4. Agricultural Support Units: Buildings to Structure the Rural Territory
Gilberto CarlosPart II . CONTEXT5. Urban Buildings!
Sérgio Padrão Fernandes6. Passage Buildings. An interface to intimacy.
João Silva Leite7. Infrastructure steps in the city.
Pablo Villalonga MunarPart III . TIME8. Convents reUsed. Three transformation processes
Miguel Freitas Silva9. An imPerfect Buildings. Espírito Santo Hospital in Évora.
Pedro Martins10. Ruinology. About wrecks, ruins and forms in industrial decommissioned buildings
Stefanos Antoniadis11. Buildings Metabolism. From pre-existence to urban regeneration.
Júlia Beltran BorràsTrajectoriesCarlos Dias Coelho, Sérgio Padrão Fernandes, João Silva LeiteIndex
About the author
Sérgio Padrão Fernandes is an Architect and an Associate Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, and an integrated researcher of CIAUD. He is also a founding member of formaurbis LAB. He was awarded, 2008, with prize of the Portuguese Academy of Fine Arts.
João Silva Leite is an architect with a PhD in Urbanism from the University of Lisbon, with the thesis "Emergent Streets" funded by FCT (2011-2014) and by AUSMIP Plus international program (2015, fellow at University of Tokyo). He is Assistant Professor at Lisbon School of Architecture and member of formaurbis LAB/CIAUD. In 2014 he was awarded in IX BIAU, best master thesis.
Carlos Dias Coelho has a PhD in Urban Planning and is Full Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at the Lisbon School of Architecture, where he funded and coordinates the research group formaurbis LAB and was Dean from 2019 to 2024. He was invited professor at the ESAP-La Villette (Paris), at ETSAB/ UPC (Barcelona), Université Laval (Québec) and he is Fellow of the University of Tokyo.
Summary
More than Buildings studies the buildings typology in Portuguese cities and their relationship with the program (the way in which it responds to a function), the territory where it is integrated and with time and the way in which built forms evolve.
