Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles

Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles, 2011

Gonçalo Pereira Ribeiro Telles (born May 24, 1922 in São José , Lisbon ) is a Portuguese politician and landscape architect .

politics

He was a member of the youth movement Juventude Agrária Católica . Together with Francisco Sousa Tavares (1920-1993) he founded the Movement of Independent Monarchists ( Movimento dos Monárquicos Independentes ) in 1957 , followed by the Movement of People's Monarchists ( Movimento dos Monárquicos Populares ). This represented a clear standpoint of the opposition to the Salazar dictatorship. During the great flooding of Lisbon in 1967, he strongly criticized the government's urbanization policy. He is the founder of the monarchist Portuguese party Partido Popular Monárquico , which was formed on May 23, 1974 from groups with a monarchist attitude. In 1994 he left the party and founded the ecological party Movimento o Partido da Terra , of which he is still honorary president. At the time of the right-wing coalition in Portugal ( Aliança Democrática ), which existed from 1979 to 1983, he was in the 8th legislative period from 1981 to 1983 under Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão in the cabinet Pinto Balsemão II Minister of State for Quality of Life ( Ministro de Estado e da Qualidade de Vida ). In 1988 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Ordem Militar de Cristo .

Landscape architecture

As a landscape architect, he was responsible for the planning and construction of the Cemitério dos Olivais and the park of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon. For the latter project he received the prestigious Prémio Valmor de Arquitetura architecture prize ex aequo in 1975 . He was also responsible for the planning and construction of the Amália Rodrigues garden near the Eduardo VII Park in Lisbon. From 1976 he was a professor at the Technical University of Lisbon . He was the founder of the Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Évora , where he is an honorary professor .

Awards (selection)

• 1969: Officer of the Order of St. Jacob of the Sword
• 1975: Prémio Valmor de Arquitectura. Awarded for the headquarters, museum and park of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Together with Rui Jervis Atouguia , Alberto Pessoa , Pedro Cid and António Viana Barreto
• 1988: Grand Cross of the Ordem Militar de Cristo
• 1990: Grand Cross of the Order of Freedom
• 2013: Prémio Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe

Publications (selection)

• Um novo conceito de cidade: A paisagem global . Contemporanea Editora, Matosinhos 1996, ISBN 972-8305-22-2 .
• Plano Verde de Lisboa . Edições Colibri, Lisbon 1997, ISBN 972-8288-74-3 .

Web links

• Em Nome da Terra . Documentary film about his life from 2008 (Portuguese). Director: Rita Saldanha: Vimeo, 58:03 minutes