João Garizo do Carmo

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João Afonso Garizo do Carmo (* 1917 in Beira , Portuguese East Africa , † 1974 in Cascais , Portugal ) was a Portuguese architect .

Life

Garizo do Carmo was born in Beira, then the second largest city in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique. After his schooling in the colony, he studied architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Porto between 1942 and 1949. In 1951 he graduated from the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon. He then moved back to his hometown of Beira with his brother Jorge Garizo do Carmos (1927–1997) and began working as a freelance architect. Garizo do Carmo gained notoriety after a short time; In 1954 and 1955 he won the city architecture award Dr. Araújo Lacerda . From 1957 Garizo do Carmo was also a member of the urban aesthetics commission of Beira.

Architecturally, two buildings do Carmos are particularly well-known: the Beira train station, which opened in 1966 - which he designed together with Francisco José de Castro and Paulo de Melo Sampaio - and the Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria (also "Igreja da Manga") church, consecrated in 1958 . Both works have a strong modernist influence with so-called tropical, i.e. adapted to the climatic conditions, e.g. B. Shade giving details shaped (" tropicalism "). The Igreja da Manga is said to be based strongly on Niemeyer's Igreja de São Francisco de Assis in Belo Horizonte ( Minas Gerais , Brazil ).

In 1964 Carmo fell ill, so that he was no longer able to make drawings. Instead, he devoted himself to teaching until 1972 before moving to Portugal. Garizo do Carmos died there in 1974 in the Lisbon suburb of Cascais .

Works

Cine-Teatro São Jorge, Beira (1952–54)
One of the most famous works by Garizo do Carmo: the Beira (Mozambique) train station opened in 1966
  • 1952–54: Cine-Teatro São Jorge, Beira
  • 1952–57: Casas António Duarte, Beira
  • 1955–58: Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria ("Igreja da Manga"), Beira
  • 1955: Paço Episcopal, Quelimane
  • 1955: Paço Episcopal, Porto Amélia [Pemba]
  • 1955-56: Cine-Teatro Almeida Garrett, Nampula
  • 1955–56: Cine-Teatro Águia, Quelimane
  • 1955–57: Office building for the insurance company Nauticus, Beira
  • 1957: Casa Carlos Silva, Beira
  • 1957: Casa Charles Tully, Beira
  • 1957–66: Beira station , Beira; together with Francisco José de Castro and Paulo de Melo Sampaio
  • around 1959: Palácio das Repartições, Quelimane
  • 1963–1966: Extension of the office building of the insurance company Nauticus, Beira
  • 1964–1966: Pavilhão de Exposições Permanentes das Actividades Económicas Nacionais ("Casa dos Bicos"), Beira
  • 1971: Plano Diretor de Macau

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Ana Tostões (Ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 439 .
  2. ↑ a b Elisiário Miranda: No caminho de uma arquitectura racional: Infraestruturas modernas em Mozambique. (pdf) Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, November 29, 2011, p. 3 , accessed on June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Elisiário Miranda, António Sopa: Cine-Teatro São Jorge (atual Centro Cultural da Universidade Pedagógica). In: Patrimónia de Inflluência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 17, 2012, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  4. ^ António Sopa: Igreja da Manga ou Igreja do Imaculado Coração de Maria. In: Patrimónia de Influência Portuguesa. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, November 14, 2012, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ José Manuel Fernandes, José Capela: Paço Episcopal e Capela. In: Patrimónia de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 25, 2012, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  6. ^ José Manuel Fernandes: Residência Episcopal. In: Patrimónia de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 19, 2012, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  7. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Cine-Teatro Águia. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  8. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes, José Capela: Palácio das Repartições (Sede do Governo de Distrito). In: Patrimónia de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, May 21, 2013, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
  9. ^ António Sopa: Casa dos Bicos. In: Patrimónia de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, November 15, 2012, accessed January 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Garizo do Carmo, João
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garizo do Carmo, João Afonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Beira , Portuguese East Africa
DATE OF DEATH 1974
Place of death Cascais , Portugal