The architect Diogo Seixas Lopes, author of the Thalia Theater, died early on Thursday at age 43, victim of a cancer in the brain, knew PUBLIC with a family friend. The architect divided the workshop with Patricia Barbas, his wife, and among his latest projects is a 17-story tower at the corner of Melo de Fontes Pereira and Avenida 5 October, which, like the theater, also located in Lisbon.
Diogo Seixas Lopes is a singular figure in the generation of architects formed in the 90s, joining the facets of designer, curator, critic and historian of architecture, all with a rare strength. But was its theoretical side one who stood out most in the last year, when he published the book Melancholy and Architecture . On Aldo Rossi , his doctoral thesis at ETH Zurich, published by Swiss publishing Park Books. An event, as he wrote in May critic architecture PUBLIC Jorge Figueira, and a work that the British newspaper The Guardian selected as one of the books of the year in the field of architecture.
it is not yet known the date of the funeral, but the body is in burning chamber on Saturday at the Thalia Theater, and the family asked for it to be respected your privacy.
Son of journalist Maria João Seixas and director Fernando Lopes, Diogo Seixas Lopes was born in Lisbon in 1972. He graduated in architecture at the Faculty of architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1996 and his doctorate at the ETH Zurich.
Currently, I was preparing the next architecture Triennale of Lisbon, that was curator along with André Tavares. It was also consultant of the Centro Cultural de Belém, where did the programming of exhibitions of Garage South.
For the architect Manuel Aires Mateus, his friend, was now a central figure in architecture in Portugal. “Not only his studio, he had with his wife, Patricia Barbas, had a very interesting production, more and more relevant with the latest projects of the Thalia Theatre and the new tower Lisbon, as was a great reflection of man around the architecture, “he says. “It was one of the few true thinkers of architecture in Portugal. It disappears at a time when opened you all the doors. When I saw the reflection of a very intense and uncompromising. It was truly razor-sharp in his criticism. For the Portuguese architecture will sorely missed. “
João Santa-Rita, President of the Architects Association, which had Seixas Lopes as a collaborator in his studio in the mid-1990s, remembers” an architect with unusual understanding capabilities, relationship and criticism of the architecture that made a major contribution to the architectural culture “.
Diogo Lopes founded the studio with Patricia Barbas in 2006. Along with Gonçalo Byrne, both signed in 2012 the rehabilitation of the Thalia Theatre, which received several nominations for awards and has been published in international journals. then won the contest for the office tower in the Fontes Pereira de Melo.
In an interview with Publico, last year, when asked whether the approach to the doctorate, which would book Melancholy and Architecture . On Aldo Rossi , you had first emerged the theme of melancholy or Aldo Rossi, Diogo Seixas Lopes said he had been the first: “When I was confronted with the need and the desire to do a PhD, the first idea that I came up with was to do something in relation to a certain sense of loss, early 1970. that was wider than the architecture and was linked to what is called in Italy “years of lead”, affirmed. ” to what extent this situation would have influenced the architecture that was made at that time. With this there was a methodological concerns go beyond the field of architecture and ask to what extent the history of architecture does not eliminate your process these other factors. It was objectively the issue of melancholy but in the end was very close to that. “
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