Manuel Graça Dias
Manuel Graça Dias was born in Lisbon, in 1953.
Graduated in Architecture from ESBAL in 1977, was invited Auxiliary Professor at FA/UTL between 1985 and 1996, and currently is invited Auxiliary Professor at FAUP (since 1997) and invited Associate Professor at DA/UAL (since1998).
He lives and works in Lisbon, where, in 1990, he created the atelier CONTEMPORÂNEA, together with Egas José Vieira.
The house restored in 1979, in Graça, Lisbon, in association with António Marques Miguel, was awarded the Valmôr Honourable Mention (1983);
He also received 1st Prize at the invitation to tender for the Portugal Pavilion at Expo'92, Seville (1989), as well as in the invitation to tender for the construction of the new headquarters of A.A.P./Banhos de S. Paulo, in Lisbon (1991), both in association with EJV.
He has written a wide variety of articles, critique and presentations regarding architecture in the specialized press (since 1978), and has been invited to a great number of conferences, both in Portugal and abroad;
He authored a biweekly programme (VER ARTES/ARQUITECTURA) aired on TV2 (1992/1996), and collaborated with TSF broadcasting regular architecture programmes on the radio (1995/1999). He was also President of the JA, one of the bodies of the Portuguese Architect Society (2000/2004), and, currently, contributes Architectural articles regularly to the weekly paper Expresso.
Egas José Vieira
Curriculum Vitae
Egas José Vieira was born in Lisbon in 1962.
Graduated in Architecture from FA/UTL in 1985, was invited Auxiliary Professor at ESTGAD [Caldas da Rainha (1997/2001)], and, currently, invited Auxiliary Professor at DA/UAL (since 1998). He lives and works in Lisbon.
EJV received 2nd prize in the invitation to tender for the enlargement of the Headquarters of the Engineering Society in Lisbon (1987), in association with Pedro Ucha.
MGD + EJV have buildings in Lisbon, Almada, Porto, Guimarães, Chaves and Seville published in the specialized press and have been shown (since 1978) in single and group exhibitions.
Authors of the controversial Urban Reconversion Study for the Estaleiro da Lisnave in Almada, MGD + EJV are currently working, among other projects, on the new campus for Egas Moniz University, at Monte da Caparica, a huge residential complex (427 dwellings) in Guimarães, the Olive Oil Museum in Mirandela, the Plan for Estrela Village (in Alqueva), the School of Music, Arts and Crafts in Chaves, as well as a residential corner building located at Av. Casal Ribeiro, in Lisbon.
MGD + EJV were awarded the AICA/Ministry of Culture Prize (Architecture), in 1999, for their work.
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Lot 333/336/337/340/341/344 "The flat vegetable covered roofs served as a starting point for the design of a terrace with access from the central courtyard to the ‘L’. It contains a small solarium placed slightly lower than the house and a mirrored water pool and when the ‘Music Room’ is covered will illuminate it from above through a series of small skylights that will sense the undulation of the water (at night electric lights will create the same sort of effect and reflections)." | |
Lot 334/335/338/339/342/343 e 345 a 348 "Looking at the desire for individualism and privacy which bestows to this type of innovation, we plan to ‘forge’ within a perfect peripheral a banal ‘L’ shaped structure, that will articulate in a comfortable form coherently with programmed requisites. [A circle is the most autonomous shape of all; (two circles set side by side will only have one common point)." |
LOT 333-348
