António Matos Veloso

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António Guilherme de Matos Veloso , or António Matos Veloso for short (* 1923 in Porto , Portugal ) is a Portuguese architect .

Life

António Matos Veloso was born in Porto, Portugal in 1923. After finishing school, Veloso attended the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Porto , where he studied architecture until 1947. As a young architect, Veloso was involved in the (loose) movement of the young Portuguese architects ( Organização dos Arquitectos Modernos ), who advocated a rethinking of classic Portuguese architectural traditions. Among other things, Veloso took part in the first architecture congress in Portugal in 1948 .

After completing his studies, Veloso first worked in the Office for Urbanization of the City of Porto ( Direcção de Serviços de Urbanização do Porto ). In 1957 Veloso moved to Luanda , the capital of the Portuguese colony of Angola , where he worked in the city administration at the invitation of the architect and friend Vasco Vieira da Costa . A year later, in 1958, Veloso moved to Lourenço Marques (now Maputo ), the capital of the Portuguese colony of Mozambique in order for the then hope opposition candidate in the presidential elections in 1958 , General Humberto Delgado wanted to advertise. In Lourenço Marques, Veloso worked with João José Tinoco, among others .

In July 1959, when Delgado was arrested , the Portuguese secret police arrested PIDE Veloso and took him via Luanda to the notorious PIDE prison in Caxias near Lisbon. After five years in prison, Veloso was released on parole in 1965 and moved back to Lourenço Marques to work with João José Tinoco. In the colony , Veloso felt much more free in its design options.

Together with Tinoco he designed various buildings for the colony, but also in the neighboring countries of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia . Together with the architects Tinoco and Octávio Rego Costa , Veloso founded the office A121 in 1972, which was based in the Sommerschield district .

In January 1976 Veloso moved to Angola as a development worker to support spatial planning there. In 1977 he returned to Lisbon, where he worked with Tinoco in the Grupo de Planeamento e Arquitectura (GPA) office of Maurício de Vasconcelos.

In 2008, Matos published the book “Arquitectura em Africa - João José Tinoco” together with José Manuel Fernandes and Maria de Lurdes Janeiro, in which he paid tribute to his long-time companion Tinoco and his architectural opus.

Works (selection)

  • 1967: Secretaria Provincial de Terras e Povoamento, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco
  • 1970: Entreposto Comercial de Moçambique, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco
  • 1970: Tete Airport , Tete ; together with João José Tinoco
  • Between 1972 and 1974: Ponta do Ouro aerodrome , Ponta do Ouro ; together with João José Tinoco and Octávio Rego Costa (Office A121)
  • undated: Bairro do SIAL, Machava, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]; together with João José Tinoco

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ana Tostões (ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 449 .
  2. ↑ Jessica Marques Bonito: Aquitectura Moderna na África Lusófona . Recepção e difusão das ideias modernas em Angola e Moçambique. Ed .: Instituto Superior Técnico. Lisbon December 2011, p. 134 f . (Portuguese, utl.pt [PDF]).
  3. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Aeroporto de Tete. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed November 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Veloso, António Matos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matos Veloso, António Guilherme de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Porto , Portugal