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Workshop "Fernando Távora, drawing and design" Back

7/1/2024 - 7/5/2024    EAAD | Campus de Azurém, Guimarães
The workshop "Fernando Távora, drawing and design" will take place from 1 to 5 July at the University of Minho's School of Architecture, Art and Design, with the collaboration and participation of teachers and students from the three architecture schools associated with the Programme for the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Birth of the Architect Fernando Távora (EAAD, Darq-FCTUC and FAUP).
Coordinated by João Cabeleira and Eduardo Fernandes (EAAD/Lab2PT), the workshop aims to produce a wall atlas guided by three themes: drawing and design / drawing and theory / drawing and external references. The programme will be based on a series of visits, work sessions, discussion sessions and plenary presentations. Students will be organised into mixed groups according to their background and year of study.

Programme

1st day - Opening
10:30 (auditorium 1/ EAAD) | Welcome session (EAAD Presidency + Távora 100 Organisation)
11:00 (auditorium 1/ EAAD) | Inaugural Lecture - Prof Manuel Correia Fernandes
12:00 (exhibition room/ EAAD) | Exhibition opening thematic nucleus CLASSES (designed in the context of the Fernando Távora Exhibition: Free Thought)
14:00 | Visit to the EAAD Building; Visit to the Historical Centre; Visit to the Exhibition "Fernando Távora. Free Thought."

Day 2 - Design and Project
9:30 (auditorium 1/ EAAD) | Morning session
- João Cabeleira "Trajectories for an Atlas. Constructing narratives."
- Teresa Pais "Discovering, getting to know, investigating with drawing"
10:30 (exhibition room/ EAAD) | Organisation of groups (team of tutors);
14:00 (Atelier/ EAAD rooms) | Global discussion session; Follow-up work
16:00 | Visit to the Pousada de Santa Marinha da Costa building, under the guidance of architect João Rapagão
17:30 | End of work

Day 3 - Drawing and Theory
9:30 (auditorium 1/ EAAD)
- Eduardo Fernandes "Fernando Távora: "I am Portuguese architecture""
- Raquel Paulino "Drawing as a method and research tool in architecture" Work supervision
14:00 (Atelier/ EAAD rooms) | Discussion session - Atelier rooms Follow-up work
17:30 | End of work

Day 4 - Drawing and external references
9:30 (auditorium 1/ EAAD)
- Carlos Machado e Moura "the puller of the territory"
- Luís Miguel Correia "I, THE DRAWING. YOU, LIFE" Accompanying works
14:00 (Atelier/ EAAD rooms) | Discussion session Work supervision (space occupation plan and intersection of narratives)

Day 5 - Completion of work
9:30 (Atelier/ EAAD rooms) | Final formalisation (work assembly)
14:00 (Atelier/ EAAD rooms) | Discussion and public presentation - Comments by architects Conceição Melo & Carlos Martins.
17:00 (Atelier Rooms / EAAD) | Closing of the activity (EAAD Presidency / Távora 100 Organisation / CMGuimarães / Guimarães Assembly / Muralha Association / Directors of the three participating schools).


Organisation: School of Architecture, Art and Design/ Lab2PT, University of Minho
Partner institutions: Order of Architects (OA); Marques da Silva Foundation (FIMS); Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP); Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (Darq_FCTUC) Support: Lab2PT, Guimarães City Council, Guimarães Assembly and Muralha Association
Number of participants: 6 teachers + 31 students.
Coordinators: João Cabeleira & Eduardo Fernandes EAAD/ Lab2PT)
Workshop supervisors: João Cabeleira (EAAD); Eduardo Fernandes (EAAD); Carlos Machado e Moura (FAUP); Raquel Geada Paulino (FAUP); Luís Miguel (Darq); Teresa Pais (Darq).
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