Paulo Valera Gomes
Titled
Strange Bedfellows: Architectural History, Architectural Practice and
Politics.
(The American historian George Kubler (1912-1996) and Portuguese
architecture: a case study)
On Friday 2 February, 2007 @ 11 : 00 am
Venue: Auditorium, Rachna Sansad's Academy of Architecture, Prabhadevi,
Mumbai.
The American historian George Kubler (1912-1996) and Portuguese
architecture – a case study:
It is about how a very famous American architectural historian, trained
in the history of pre-colombian American architecture, ie non-European
architecture, wrote a book about Portuguese 16th-17 th century
architecture reading it as partially non-European, which book was
appropriated by left oriented historians and architects in Portugal in
the 1970s and 1980s in order to present Portuguese architecture of the
past and of the present as unique and "non-aligned" with European styles.
Paulo Varela Gomes is an architectural and art historian teaching at the
Department of Architecture of the School of Science and Technology of
the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His current subjects of teaching
and expertise are the history of European and euro-colonial architecture
in the 16th and 17th centuries. But he has also worked on the history of
20th century architecture and he regularly wrote articles about
contemporary architecture for journals and newspapers, besides curating
Portugal 1991 architecture exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. He is the
author of some books and many papers on architecture and art and he is
the editor of MURPHY, a journal of architectural history and theory
published in Portuguese and English by the University of Coimbra.
Note: The Let's Talk feature in Indian Architect & Builder 's January
2007 carries an interview with Paulo V Gomes.
Supported by:
Rachna Sansad's Academy of Architecture
Indian Architect & Builder
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