José Forjaz

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José Alberto Basto Perreira Forjaz , usually short for José Forjaz , (* 1936 in Coimbra , Portugal ) is a Portuguese - Mozambican architect.

Life

education

José Forjaz was born in 1936 in the Portuguese university city of Coimbra . At the age of 16 he moved with his family to the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique , where he completed his secondary education. At the age of 17, he worked as a designer in the Colonial Authority for Public Buildings ( Serviços Provinciais de Obras Públicas ) under Fernando Mesquita and as an intern for the architect Pancho Guedes . After these years of apprenticeship, Forjaz moved to Porto in 1955, where he studied architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes and graduated with a licenciatura in 1966. For his Master of Science in architecture, Forjaz attended Columbia University in New York ( USA ), which he graduated in 1968.

Call to the Mozambican civil service

After completing his training, he moved back to Africa and initially worked in a private architecture firm in Mbabane ( Swaziland ) and later in Botswana . Forjaz returned to Mozambique in 1974, which became independent in 1975. Forjaz - as a member of the Mozambican liberation movement and from 1975 ruling party FRELIMO - then took on various tasks in the civil service between 1975 and 1986 due to a lack of skilled workers. Initially, until 1977, he advised the newly established Ministry of Public Buildings and Housing ( Ministério das Obras Públicas e Habitação ). From 1977 to 1983 Forjaz was responsible for urban / regional planning, housing and social facilities in the National Service for Housing ( Direcção Nacional de Habitação ). Between 1983 and 1986 Forjaz held the office of State Secretary for Regional Planning. Forjaz was also a member of the Mozambican People's Assembly ( Assembleia Popular ) between 1977 and 1986 .

Work as an architecture lecturer

After several stays abroad as a visiting professor of architecture - including in Italy, Portugal, the USA and Japan - José Forjaz moved to Mozambique's largest state university, the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane , in 1990 . Forjaz founded and headed the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning there until 2009, and Forjaz retired in 2013. Since retiring from university he has been running his own architecture office “José Forjaz - Arquitectos” in Maputo and continues to design numerous buildings for private and public clients.

Honors

Together with the architect João José Tinoco , Forjaz designed the then Liceu D. Ana, now Escola Secundária da Polana (Maputo, Mozambique), in 1970–73
  • Veterans Medal of the Mozambican Liberation Struggle ( Medalha de Veterano da Luta de Libertação de Moçambique ), 1982
  • Ruth and Ralph Erskine Prize, 1989
  • Commander of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity , 2001
  • Honorary member of the Association of Portuguese Architects
  • Honorary diploma from the Mozambican Ministry of Culture for its services to the promotion and further development of the arts and culture, 2012

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José Forjaz: José Forjaz: 50 anos de arquitectura em Mozambique. Ordem dos Arquitectos Secção Regional Sul, December 9, 2015, accessed January 25, 2016 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ana Tostões (ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 443 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Conferência "José Forjaz - 50 anos de arquitectura em Moçambique" no Museu dos Coches. In: ArchDaily Brasil. Retrieved January 25, 2016 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ↑ José Forjaz é professor emérito. In: Jornal Notícias. October 15, 2013, accessed January 25, 2016 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ Denise Dennis: The work of José Forjaz in Mozambique. (PDF, 9.5 MB) Retrieved January 25, 2016 (English).
  6. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Liceu D. Ana de Portugal / Escola Secundária da Polana. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed January 25, 2016 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ A nossa Praça. In: A Verdade. February 3, 2011, accessed October 27, 2015 (Portuguese).
  8. ^ Hans Ibelings, José Forjaz, Rob Gaunt (Claus en Kaan Architecten): The Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2004, ISBN 90-5662-420-2 .
  9. ^ Fisheries Museum. José Forjaz, accessed January 25, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Forjaz, José
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perreira Forjaz, José Alberto Basto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese-Mozambican architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Coimbra , Portugal