“Just like a huge belt around the city, there is another city where many more people live than all the people in the city – it is the city of the poor and the servants – huge dependence on the city. ”
“To speak, therefore, in an organized space in two and three dimensions, means to take a conventional attitude, useful for certain classifications, but not corresponding to reality.”
“I present my first professional work with the awareness of having given myself to it completely, while I built it on paper, and of continuing to live it today as an experience already accomplished. “
“the important ensemble of the new square, south-side of the main church, is planned and will be built in Pombaline style! The incongruity and absurdity of such a proposition can be felt by any layman”
“The idea would be to publish, in Portuguese and English,
a selection of fundamental texts about Portuguese architecture of recent decades.”
“In order to teach, we have to be charismatic, we have to be persuasive, to inspire and that is good and bad.”
“it is possible yet another one, necessarily more time consuming because immersed in reading, which allows us to rediscover architecture as a synthesis of a concrete reality, fruit of the accommodating of the territory by man.”
“Chelas Urbanization Plan emerges as the largest urbanization plan of the City Council of Lisbon (510ha), in the expansion strategy of the city, following the large-scale planning of Alvalade, Olivais Norte (40ha), and Olivais Sul (186ha).”