Fernando Mesquita

Fernando Ferreira Botelho Queiroz de Mesquita , Fernando Mesquita for short (* 1916 in Vila Real , Portugal ; † in the 1990s in Mozambique ) was a Portuguese architect .

Life

Fernando Mesquita was born in Vila Real in northern Portugal in 1916. After his school education, Mesquita studied architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Porto between 1934 and 1946 , where he also attended some courses in urban studies at the University of London . Between 1941 and 1942, Mesquita worked as an intern in the office of Carlos Ramos , one of the pioneers of Portuguese modernism .

After completing his studies, Mesquita became involved in the movement of young architects for modern architecture in the Salazarite Portugal. Mesquita was a member of the Portuguese delegation when the Union Internationale des Architectes was founded in 1948 in Lausanne. Mesquita was also involved in the 1st Portuguese Architecture Congress in 1948 , which is considered the starting point for Portuguese Modernism.

Like many young Portuguese architects, Mesquita decided to move to the Portuguese colony of Mozambique in the late 1940s due to a lack of work opportunities in Portugal . There he began his professional career as a employed architect, town planner and urbanist in the colonial administration of Mozambique. From 1964 Mesquita headed the newly founded Gabinete de Urbanização de Lourenço Marques , which had set itself the goal of expanding and modernizing the urban structures of Lourenço Marques (today Maputo).

Mesquita's influence on the architecture in colonial Mozambique is considered immense: on the one hand through the massive urbanization program in Lourenço Marques and Mozambique as a whole - above all the building of schools, which are still formative today due to their modernist architecture - and on the other hand through the support and support of others young Portuguese architects, for example Fernando Eurico , João José Tinoco , Maria Carlota Quintanilha , Marcos Miranda Guedes , Alberto Soeiro , Nuno Craveiro Lopes and Pancho Guedes . Many schools whose planning Mesquita outsourced to other architects also bear witness to Mesquita's influence.

After Mozambique gained independence in 1975, Mesquita remained as one of the few Portuguese in the country and ran a private architecture office in the Sommerschield district . Fernando Mesquita is believed to have died in a car accident in the 1990s.

plant

1953: Urbanization plan for the Sommerschield district , Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
1955: Plan for standard school buildings with 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 classrooms in numerous Mozambican locations
1955–60: Main building of the Tavene Hospital, João Belo [Xai-Xai]
1958–63: Expansion of the Escola Paiva Manso, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
1959–63: Escola Técnica, Industrial e Comercial Neutel de Abreu, Nampula
1960–63: Escola Industrial e Comercial D. Francisco Barreto, Quelimane
1960–63: Escola Industrial e Comercial Vasco da Gama, Inhambane
1960: Escola Primária de Vila Pery, Vila Pery [Chimoio]
1960–63: Escola Tecnica Elementary Governador Joaquim de Araújo, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
1966: Regulatory plan for spatial and land management in the area of Lourenço Marques [Maputo] ("Prosalm")
1968: Development plan for Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
1969: Update of the urbanization plan for Manhiça

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Ana Tostões (ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 446 .
↑ Elisiário Miranda: Escola Técnica Elementar Governador Joaquim Araújo (atual Escola Secundária Estrela Vermelha). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 18, 2012, accessed January 29, 2016 (Portuguese).
^ Tiago Lourenço: Escola Técnica Elementar de Maputo / Escola Técnica Elementar "Major Joaquim de Araújo" / Escola Secundária Estrela Vermelha. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed January 29, 2016 (Portuguese).

personal data
SURNAME	Mesquita, Fernando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mesquita, Fernando Ferreira Botelho Queiroz de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vila Real , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH	between 1991 and 2000
Place of death	Mozambique

[tostoes-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Ana Tostões (ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 446 .

[2] Elisiário Miranda: Escola Técnica Elementar Governador Joaquim Araújo (atual Escola Secundária Estrela Vermelha). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 18, 2012, accessed January 29, 2016 (Portuguese).

[3] Tiago Lourenço: Escola Técnica Elementar de Maputo / Escola Técnica Elementar "Major Joaquim de Araújo" / Escola Secundária Estrela Vermelha. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed January 29, 2016 (Portuguese).