From thinking to building

Title FROM THINKING TO BUILDING Author Carlos Nuno Lacerda Lopes Publisher DraftBooks® | Porto Rua da Bandeirinha, nº 92-6 Design DraftBooks® | Porto Printing Orgal ISBN 978-989-8573-06-3 Legal Deposit 378626/14 COPYRIGHT © 2014, Carlos Nuno Lacerda Lopes Reproduction of images or texts by whichever means is strictly forbiden. FROM THINKING TO BUILDING CARLOS NUNO LACERDA LOPES CONTENTS Introduction 7 Introduction 9 From thought to design 11 Beauty 13 “Look forward to the world” 19 The humanized space 27 Understanding the house 31 From design to representation 35 Formalizations 37 From architecture to stage design 49 On stage 53 “Theatrical” 57 “Space and emotion” 65 “The idea” 73 “Construction of space and its representation” 75 From representation to project 81 An architecture to view the sea 83 A way of seeing architecture 87 “On innovation” 95 “On ideas” 101 “On project” 109 From project to construction 115 Learning as usual 117 “Man’s body...” 129 Letting our emotion think 131 Inhabiting the school 139 Building the school 143 Introduction 8 [From thinking to building] 9 [Introduction] Introduction This book arises from the collection of a series of texts that were published in some furniture, architecture and scenography books, works that we have doing in recent years. 0RUHWKDQDQRUJDQL]HGUHÁHFWLRQRUDTXHVWIRUDV\VWHP- atization, we prefer to present some of the texts that may indicate or contextualize a whole production or creation that LQWHUFHSWVGLIIHUHQWÀHOGVRI SURMHFWWKDWDUHQRZLQFRQWHP- porary society presented to the architect. So we’ll talk about representation, design, process and research: about an idea construction and from where ideas pop up; similarities and differences between the different disciplines, architecture and theater; the resemblance between the scholar space and the house where we live in; the places ZHDWWHQGDQGDVWKHVHVSDFHVDIIHFWDQGLQÁXHQFHXVDERXW materials and construction process, us and others; all that matters in attempting to make architecture, in attempting to organize a living space. But we also talk about time and different times, that help us understanding the time we live in and that we build, the ideal of happiness and persistence, a willingness to build and desire. Emotions and experiences, ways of seeing the world and building it. So the title: “From thinking to building”, because is in building that we feel accomplished.