Diogo was an extraordinary architect, because it was an unusual person. His eyes glowed always with humor and curiosity as trying to grasp the world. Was critical, thinker, journalist on the weekly extinct “You”, one of the directors of one of the most incredible magazines grew up in Portugal, “The Prototypo” in the revolutionary design of pages lived with in-depth reflection on the architecture.
The architect Joaquim Moreno, PhD at the School of Architecture at Princeton University, friend of the deceased, says it, the i: “Diogo was a central person in the renewal hypothesis of architectural culture in Portugal, making it the densest and open “. This Seixas Lopes capacity not to stay for a short architectural idea, this urge to integrate challenges and knowledge was present in all the activities it. “It was not a conventional architect or was conventional in the sense of being a great architect bet on the transformation of the life around him, was an expanded architect,” says Joaquim Moreno. This concern to go further is present in his doctoral thesis at the prestigious Federal Institute of Technology Zurich University, the work which would result in the book “Melancholy and Archictetures. On Aldo Rossi “, considered by” The Guardian “as one of the written works of the year in the field of architecture.
His doctoral thesis was a whole program in the sense of this complex and open architecture to life. “When I confronted with the need and the desire to do a PhD, the first idea that came to me was to do something in relation to a certain sense of loss, in the early 1970s, which was broader than the architecture and was linked to what is called Italy “, said Diogo Seixas Lopes, in an interview with” Public “, mentioned in the news about his death. The challenge that the architect is put is that in order to Italy the years of lead [period of revolutionary hangover and terrorism that followed the riots of the late '60s, the so-called years of fire] would have conditioned the architectural culture.
Diogo Lopes founded a workshop with Patricia Barbas his wife in 2006. They were responsible, along with the architect Gonçalo Byrne, at the Thalia theater redevelopment project that received numerous nominations for international awards. recently won a tender for a 17-story tower on Avenida Fontes Pereira de Melo. Diogo Seixas Lopes took the abrupt character and controversy of this type of architectural intervention that marked, according to him, a birth of a certain time, and they were a mirror of the kind this time change: “This mirror does not come naturally and so there is a certain violence these gestures, “justified. For him the work of architecture was not only conform to the existing city, it was also producer of the new city.
At his death he was involved in the preparation of the next Architecture Triennale of Lisbon, that was one of the curators. also worked at the Centro Cultural de Belém, as a consultant, making the programming of exhibitions of Garage South. Dalila Rodrigues, who was manager of CCB and responsible for creating the architecture exhibition of Garage South, spoke to i on this work with Diogo Seixas Lopes “it was a privilege to work with Diogo and to rely on their intelligence and singular thought” moved it reveals that the architect worked until the end, “organize and project the architecture exhibition, from December 2012 to dedicated to architect Carrilho da Graça which ended on Sunday, and that will open later this year on the architect Souto Moura. ”
I was the son of the director Fernando Lopes and journalist Maria João Seixas. It is not known the date of his funeral. Your body will be burning chamber on Saturday at the Thalia Theater, and the family asked to respect your privacy.
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