Francisco Castro Rodrigues

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Francisco Castro Rodrigues at an exhibition opening in 2014

Francisco Castro Rodrigues (born October 21, 1920 in Lisbon; † May 2, 2015 ibid) was a Portuguese architect who was particularly active in the Angolan city of Lobito for over three decades.

Life

Francisco Castro Rodrigues was born on October 21st in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. After completing school, Rodrigues studied engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico from 1940 to 1941 , before moving to the Escola de Belas Artes to study architecture. He completed his studies in 1951.

Rodrigues worked in the office of Veloso Reis Camelo from 1939 to 1943 . From 1946 to 1953 he worked with the architects João Simões and José Humberto Lobo from Portugal on projects in the Portuguese colonies , in particular Angola , Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe .

He took on various teaching positions and offices, for example as head of the important cultural association Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes from 1945 to 1953. With Celestino Castro , he worked for the first time a complete translation of the Charter of Athens (CIAM) , which it published in Arquitectura magazine in January published by December 1948.

He was in opposition to the repressive Estado Novo regime under Salazar and was a member of the illegal Communist Party of Portugal , from which he withdrew from 1949. After the secret police PIDE had temporarily arrested him from March 26th to June 6th, 1947, and in 1953 made it impossible for him to accept a promised position in the architecture office of the Lisbon city administration, he went to Angola, where he became head of the architecture department of the Câmara Municipal Lobito became. Originally employed on a four-year contract, he stayed here until 1987, in various positions, including head of the urban planning department and the department for culture, public relations and tourism. He also helped set up the state architecture courses in the Republic of Angola, both as a university lecturer and in an advisory capacity for the Ministry of Education.

In 1988 he returned to Portugal, where, after the Portuguese Carnation Revolution and due to the escalation of the civil war in Angola , he had already lived temporarily between November 1975 and April 1976, and was involved in projects in Moura and Beja . In 1993 he was invited by the city of Lobito to the city festivals and honored there. He lived until the end in the small town of Azenhas do Mar on the Portuguese Atlantic coast , in the municipality of Colares . Rodrigues died on May 2, 2015 in the Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon .

Works (selection)

Paços do Concelho, Lobito (1955/62)
Mercado Municipal, Lobito (1958-64)
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Sumbe (1966)
  • 1951–52: Urbanization plan for Lobito
  • 1952–55: Bloco "Casa Sol", Lobito; with azulejos by Manuel Ribeiro de Paiva
  • 1955: Expansion of the Paços do Concelho, Lobito
  • 1956: Urbanization plan for Catumbela
  • 1956: Edifício Marques Seixas, Novo Redondo [Sumbe]
  • 1957-61: Edifício "A Universal", Lobito
  • 1958-64: Mercado Municipal, Lobito
  • 1963: Cine-Esplanada Flamingo , Lobito
  • 1964: Lobito Airport
  • 1966: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Novo Redondo [Sumbe]
  • 1966-1967: Liceu Nacional Almirante Lopes Alves, Lobito
  • 1967: Casa Doutor Figueiredo, Mariana Machado [Ganga]
  • 1967: Posto Clínico / Centro de Saúde, Mariana Machado [Ganga]
  • 1960s: Bloco da Cooperativa "O Lar do Namibe", Lobito
  • 1970: Paços do Concelho, Novo Redondo [Sumbe]
  • 1971: Câmara Municipal, Mariano Machado [Ganda]
  • 1971–72: Liceu D. Inocêncio Sousa Coutinho, Novo Redondo [Sumbe]
  • 1972: Palácio da Justiça, Novo Redondo [Sumbe]
  • 1973: Fábrica de Tintas Robbialac, Lobito

literature

  • Ana Magalhães / Inês Gonalves: Moderno Tropical - Arquitectura em Angola e Moçambique, 1948 - 1975 1st edition, tinta-de-china, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-989-671-017-0
  • José Manuel Fernandes (Ed.): África - Arquitectura e Urbanismo de Matriz Portuguesa. 1st edition, Caleidoscópico, Casal de Cambra 2011, ISBN 978-989-658-147-3

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. 447 .
  2. ↑ www.cpires.com , accessed November 16, 2012
  3. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes (Ed.): África - Arquitectura e Urbanismo de Matriz Portuguesa. 1st edition, Caleidoscópico, Casal de Cambra 2011, page 81 ff.
  4. ^ Joana Amaral Cardoso: Morreu Francisco Castro Rodrigues, que desenhou “o Lobito como cidade moderna”. In: Público. May 3, 2015, Retrieved February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Prédio do Sol (Bloco de Habitação Plurifamiliar). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 12, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  6. ^ José Manuel Fernandes: Antigo Edifício Marques Seixas. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, June 20, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Bloco de Habitação plurifamiliar / Antigo Universal. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  8. ^ José Manuel Fernandes: Mercado Municipal. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 14, 2013, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  9. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Cine-esplanada Flamingo. In: Património de Influência Portugues (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  10. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Aerogare. In: Patimónio de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, November 13, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  11. ↑ Elisiário Miranda: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (atual Catedral). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, August 2, 2013, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  12. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Liceu (antigo Liceu Nacional Almirante Lopes Alves / Escola do 3.º nível Comandante Saydi Mingas). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Antiga Casa do Doutor Figueiredo. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 11, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  14. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Antigo Posto Clínico e Centro de Saúde. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 11, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  15. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Bloco da Cooperativa O Lar do Namibe. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 12, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  16. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Paços do Concelho. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, December 19, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
  17. ↑ a b José Manuel Fernandes: Outros Equipamentos. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 16, 2012, accessed February 20, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Rodrigues, Francisco Castro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2015
Place of death Lisbon