Epígrafe: #067, fala atelier, Porto, Portugal, 2018. Fotografía: Rory Gardiner.  

Conferencia de Filipe Magalhães (fala atelier)
Título: Doors, semi-circles & the colour yellow
Presentación: Juan Campanini
Organiza: Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Contemporánea

Filipe Magalhães es arquitecto y magíster en arquitectura por la Faculdade de Arquitectura do Porto. Antes de fundar su práctica trabajó en las oficinas de Harry Gugger en Basel y SANAA en Tokio. En 2013 fundó fala atelier, oficina que dirige actualmente con Ana Luisa Soares, Ahmed Belkhodja y Lera Samovich junto a Ana Lima, João Carlos Lopes, Catarina Vilarinho, y Eduardo Loureiro. El trabajo de fala atelier ha sido reconocido internacionalmente en diversas publicaciones, como los monográficos de 2G 80 (2020) y a+u 2023:10. También han brindado conferencias en diversas universidades alrededor del mundo, desde Tokio a Zúrich. Magalhães es profesor visitante en la Escuela Politécnica Federal de Lausana e investigador de doctorado en la FAUP desde 2020.

Sobre su práctica, fala declara: “All things considered, we see architecture less as the assembly of buildings than the act of building an assembly. This assembly of interrelated propositions is perhaps comparable to a ‘cinematic universe’ in constant tension with the textures of normalcy. A distinct column or a pattern might be an extra in a certain project and become a first role in another episode. Is it a matter of coherence? About building an oeuvre? About authorship and style? Not centrally. Rather it is about mapping and conducting an exploration into something unknown a priori. Each project is a subplot with its own coherence but there are constants that tie the universe together. The bottom line is that these islands belong to each other more than they belong to us. We cherish the paradox of wanting everything to be a bit more like them, while at the same time feeling like strangers when we visit them. Those moments of ‘visits’ make for sweet counterpoints to the life of the atelier: during them we feel more like questioning actors than proud authors. But our feelings don’t matter so much. What matters is that it might be one more sign that the archipelago has a life of its own, a monstrous coherence that we are responsible for but that we never fully tame. It holds a certain danger, but perhaps only for the bigger ships and fishes.”

La conferencia se dictará en inglés.

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