Title & Author:

Thirteen Architectures / [presented by] Amâncio Guedes.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Pancho Guedes In London, 198000Smiling Lion', Carreiro De Tiro, Lourenco Marques -- Pyramidal Kindergarten, Sommerschield, Lourenco Marques & Ground Floor Plan -- "Yes House", Lhanguene, Lourenco Marques -- Barclays Bank DCO, Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques -- House For Missionary At Macuvulane, Magude, Sul Do Save, Mozambique -- Congregational Church & House, Choupal, Near Lourenco Marques -- S. Cipriano Do Chamanculo Church, Lourenco Marques & Ground Floor Plan -- S. Cipriano Do Chamanculo. Interior -- Clandestine Nursery School In The Canico, Lourenco Marques -- Cofre Privativo Do Corpo Da Policia, Alto Da Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques -- Office Building On Praca Macmahon. Lourenco Marques -- Hotel, S. Martinho Do Bilene, Bilene, Sul Do Save. Section & Perspective -- The Famous Plan (Left) Of The Hotel Of S. Martinho Gazes Lovingly At Its Own Beautiful Roof Plan (Right) -- "The Habitable Woman", Nelspruit, Transvaal, With Plan At Entrance Level -- Red House, Sommerschield, Lourenco Marques -- Belgarde Da Silva Housing, Polana, Lourenco Marques -- Stone Mural, Antonio Ennes Housing, Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques -- "House Of The Broken Pediment", Encosta Da Polana, Lourenco Marques -- Casa Salm, Sommerschield, Lourenco Marques -- Sutton Monument, Sutton Close, University Of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg -- Primary School At Antioka Mission Station. Magude, Sul Do Save -- Khovolar, Maxaquene, Lourenco Marques -- Train Tower

Summary:

Guedes is a man of many faces, many names. He says that Pancho Guedes is the inventor of all the art and architecture; Amâncio Guedes is the spirit of Pancho Guedes. Amâncio d'Alpoim Guedes is the real Guedes, who was born Portuguese, educated in South Africa and lived and worked for twenty five years in Mozambique before being forced into exile. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In Lourenco Marques, Guedes "invented and built enough buildings to make up a good-sized city". Everything he built was imaginative, economical, and had a strong presence. Now he has become a teacher whose self-appointed task is "to explore the borders of architecture, to expand its territories, to illuminate the new lands and signpost them for his students and himself". He says: "I believe that buildings grow out of each other, that each artist invents his own precursors, that there is an incessant dialogue with many pasts... I have worked in many styles simultaneously... I have classified my architectural inventions into a number of families and filed them... into a catalogue of twenty five architectures... my Vitruvius Mozambicanus". For his talk he has chosen thirteen of these architectures: • Stiloguedes • The American-Egyptian style • How Frank Lloyd Wright used to help me in the beginning • Bargains in a bush style • A collection of disparate churches • Grass houses • Temporary towers, slabs, and slices of street face • Buildings with walls twisting and turning this way and that • My arched and somewhat Roman manner • Parts of villages remembering other villages, far away in my mother country • Euclidian palaces • The passages, steps, places, squares and monuments of the imaginary city • Learning machines of all sizes.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Esthétique.

Added entries:

Guedes, Amancio, 1925-2015, narrator.