Ana Tostões

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Ana Cristina Santos Tostões, shortly Ana Tostões (* 3. April 1959 in Lisbon , Portugal ) is a Portuguese architect, architecture critic and -historikerin. She teaches architecture at the University of Lisbon .

Life

Academic career

Ana Tostões was born on April 3, 1959 in Lisbon. After completing her schooling, she studied architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa ( licenciatura ) until 1982 , followed by a master's degree in art history at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa until 1994 . Her master's thesis was entitled Os Verdes Anos na Arquitectura Portuguesa dos Anos 50 (The Green Years of Portuguese Architecture in the 1950s). In 2003 she did her doctorate in the field of culture and technology of modern architecture at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon .

Tostões has made guest appearances at numerous universities, including EPFL in Lausanne , ETH Zurich , University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, Rice School of Architecture in Houston, ETSAB in Barcelona and FAU Navarra in Pamplona. She now works as a full professor at the University of Lisbon, where she accompanies, among other things, the doctoral program in the architecture department.

Tostões was, among other things, deputy chairman of the Portuguese Association of Architects ( Ordem dos Arquitectos ) and the Portuguese Association of the International Association of Art Critics . She now heads the international docomomo association . In 2006 she received the Order of Infante Dom Henrique with the rank of Commander-in-Chief for her work on Portuguese architecture.

Research priorities

Ana Tostões is primarily concerned with the theory and history of architecture in the 20th century with a focus on Portugal and its architectural relationships with other continents. She published numerous specialist books on her research focus.

Among other things, she led the research project “Exchanging World Visions”, in which she and students explored the traces of modernism in Sub-Saharan Africa. For the research project she received the Gulbenkian Prize 2014.

Works (selection)

A detailed list of Ana Tostões publications is available at.

  • Portugal: Architecture in the 20th Century (German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt, 1997)
  • Keil do Amaral, o arquitecto eo humanista (1999)
  • Arquitectura Moderna Portuguesa 1920–1970, around património para conhecer e salvaguardar (Porto, Lisbon, Évora, Coimbra, 2001–2004);
  • Arquitectura e Cidadania. Atelier Nuno Teotónio Pereira (2004);
  • Biblioteca Nacional.Exterior / Interior (2004);
  • Gulbenkian Headquarters and Museum, The architecture of the 60s (2006);
  • Lisboa 1758: The Baixa Plan Today (2008).
  • Mediterranean Cities, Coup de Dés (2012)
  • The Buildings. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2012)
  • Modern Architecture in Africa: Angola and Mozambique (2014)
  • Restauro e Renovação do Grande Auditório (2014)
  • Idade Maior. Cultura e tecnologia na Arquitectura Moderna Portuguesa (2015)
  • The Shape of the City (2016)
  • The Mediterranean Question (2016)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ana Cristina dos Santos Tostões. Vila Tugendhat, accessed January 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ana Tostões - Curriculum Vitae. (pdf) docomo, August 24, 2017, accessed on January 5, 2019 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Tostões, Ana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tostões, Ana Cristina Santos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect, architecture critic and historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal