Maria Carlota Quintanilha

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Maria Carlota de Carvalho e Quintanilha , Maria Carlota Quintanilha for short (born November 11, 1923 in Coimbra , Portugal ) is a Portuguese architect .

Life

Maria Carlota Quintanilha was born on November 11, 1923 as the daughter of Maria Suzana de Carvalho and Aurelio Pereira da Silva Quintanilha , a well-known natural scientist, in the Portuguese university city of Coimbra. After completing secondary school, Quintanilha began to study architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes in Lisbon, but shortly after switched to the counterpart in Porto . In 1953 she finished her studies and moved to Cunene, in the south of the Portuguese colony Angola, with her fellow student João José Tinoco, who was married in the same year . Quintanilha worked there as an architect and worked on projects with her husband.

A few years later, Quintanilha and Tinoco moved to the capital of the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, Lourenço Marques (now Maputo). Quintanilha taught design and descriptive geometry at various secondary and vocational schools . At the same time, she also designed various works for private and government clients, partly in collaboration with her husband Tinoco and mutual friend Alberto Soeiro .

In 1972 Quintanilha moved back to Portugal, where she initially worked for the National Research Institute for Civil Engineering ( Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil ) and brought her experience and knowledge of the tropical climates of Angola and Mozambique with her. In 1973 she moved to the Ministry of Education. In 1989, Quintanilha retired.

Works

Porto Amélia Airport [now Pemba], designed in the 1960s with João José Tinoco
  • 1953–56: Participation in the construction of the Biópio dam , Angola
  • 1953–56: Two apartment blocks in Sá da Bandeira [Lubango], Angola
  • 1957: Sede do Grupo Desportivo do Alto-Maé, Lourenço Marques [Maputo], Mozambique
  • 1958–59: Sede dos Serviços de Aeronáutica de Lourenço Marques, Lourenço Marques [Maputo], together with Alberto Soeiro and João José Tinoco
  • 1960–1970: Nampula and Porto Amélia [Pemba] airports ; both together with João José Tinoco, Nampula also Alberto Soeiro
  • 1962–66: Palácio das Repartições do Distrito de Niassa, Vila Cabral [Lichinga]
  • 1965: Instituto do Algodão, Lourenço Marques [Maputo]
  • 1965: Palácio das Repartições do Distrito de Cabo Delgado, Porto Amélia [Pemba]
  • 1963–66: Urbanization plan for João Belo [Xai-Xai]
  • 1964–67: Urbanization plan for Inhambane and Maxixe

literature

  • Ana Vaz Milheiro: Maria Carlota Quintanilha: uma arquitecta em Africa. In: Jornal de Arquitectos, Ordem dos Arquitectos. No. 242, Jul-Sept. 2011, ISSN  0870-1504 , pp. 20-25.

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. 446 .
  2. ^ A b Tânia Beisl Ramos, Madalena Cunha Matos: PARTINDO PARA OS TRÓPICOS. PERCURSOS E ESTADIAS DE ARQUITETOS PORTUGUESES NO SÉCULO XX . In: XI Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro das Ciências Sociais . Salvador 2011, p. 11 .
  3. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Aeroporto de Nampula. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed November 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  4. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Aeroporto de Pemba. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed November 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
  5. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Aerogare. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, November 14, 2012, accessed January 31, 2016 (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Aerogare. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, November 14, 2012, accessed January 31, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Quintanilha, Maria Carlota
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quintanilha, Maria Carlota de Carvalho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Coimbra , Portugal