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Francisco Moura Veiga

Hammerstrasse 49, Basel, Switzerland
(Portugal, 1985) studied Architecture in Lisbon and Kaiserslautern. Has been working as an architect in Basel since 2009 in a number of offices such as Christ und Gantenbein and, at the moment, at Burckhardt+Partner. In 2014 he started the editorial project CARTHA magazine, from which he is the coordinator and a member of the editorial group. He is coordinator the architecture component of the II International Congress on Students Engagement in School, that will take place in Lisbon in 2016.

Call for ideas 2016

Overview


or “the kitchen aid analogy” on a post-growth future

Overview


or “the kitchen aid analogy” on a post-growth future
A critic distopian proposal for the role of architecture in a post-growth future through the analysis of three case-studies.
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Future architecture will be characterized by its capacity of response to the social and technical needs of the post-growth society. This has to be done from a position of overview.

The way we perceive and occupy the planet, all basic infrastructures (sanitation, water, energy, transport), food production and distribution, typologies (housing, commercial, industrial), these elements of our built environment have to be rethought according to the new needs and goals of society.
By analyzing three scales; nation, city and house, I wish to present possible ways in which architecture can tackle these challenges.

I do not offer a vision of architecture as form, I propose a vision for it as a social event; architects will have stopped investing themselves in partial solutions and will have taken a step back, out of the current system, to a position that offers them the needed overview to reflect on how to redesign and reinterpret our built environment from a holistic perspective.

Overview


or “the kitchen aid analogy” on a post-growth future

Overview


or “the kitchen aid analogy” on a post-growth future
A critic distopian proposal for the role of architecture in a post-growth future through the analysis of three case-studies.
File under

Future architecture will be characterized by its capacity of response to the social and technical needs of the post-growth society. This has to be done from a position of overview.

The way we perceive and occupy the planet, all basic infrastructures (sanitation, water, energy, transport), food production and distribution, typologies (housing, commercial, industrial), these elements of our built environment have to be rethought according to the new needs and goals of society.
By analyzing three scales; nation, city and house, I wish to present possible ways in which architecture can tackle these challenges.

I do not offer a vision of architecture as form, I propose a vision for it as a social event; architects will have stopped investing themselves in partial solutions and will have taken a step back, out of the current system, to a position that offers them the needed overview to reflect on how to redesign and reinterpret our built environment from a holistic perspective.

Idea by

Francisco Moura Veiga
Hammerstrasse 49
Basel
Switzerland
(Portugal, 1985) studied Architecture in Lisbon and Kaiserslautern. Has been working as an architect in Basel since 2009 in a number of offices such as Christ und Gantenbein and, at the moment, at Burckhardt+Partner. In 2014 he started the editorial project CARTHA magazine, from which he is the coordinator and a member of the editorial group. He is coordinator the architecture component of the II International Congress on Students Engagement in School, that will take place in Lisbon in 2016.
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