Pancho Guedes

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pancho Guedes , actually Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda Guedes (born May 13, 1925 in Lisbon ; † November 7, 2015 in Graaff-Reinet , South Africa ) was a Portuguese architect, sculptor and painter. It is best known for its expressive buildings from the 1950s and 1960s; its main areas of activity were in what was then the colony of Portuguese East Africa , now Mozambique .

Life

Edifício Dragão (1953), Maputo
Prédio Abreu, Santos e Rocha (1953/56), Maputo
Bloco Habitacional O Leão Que Ri (1958), Maputo

At the age of three, Guedes moved to what was then the Portuguese colony of São Tomé e Príncipe . After a short stay in Portugal, the family moved on to Mozambique in 1932. After his studies - with stations in Johannesburg ( Witwatersrand University 1945-49) and Porto ( Escola Superior de Belas Artes , 1953) - he was a member of the architectural group Team 10 , which came from the IX. CIAM emerged in Aix-en-Provence in 1953 and proclaimed a new type of urbanism. In 1953 he moved to Mozambique.

Guedes designed more than a hundred buildings, mainly in the former Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique, with more than 500 in Maputo alone . His architectural style, also known as “Stiloguedes”, is characterized above all by a very expressive, modernist style, which is said to be owed to the surrealistic influences of Picasso and Miró. Since this style of Salazarist censorship was not acceptable in Portugal, Guedes avoided in Portugal's colonies, where he found more freedom for his design work. For this reason he mainly worked for private individuals and companies.

At the 1961 Biennale in São Paulo , Guedes presented some of his works, including his residential building "O Leão Que Ri" . The Brazilian press gave him the name "O Niemeyer do Índico" ("The Niemeyer of the Indian Ocean").

After Mozambique gained independence in 1975, he left the country. His alma mater, the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, appointed him to the chair of architecture, where he set up the architecture section and was head of the architecture course. In 1990 he returned to Portugal, where he lectured at the Universidade Técnica in Lisbon until 1993 . This was followed by positions at the Universidade Lusíada (1993–1996), the Universidade Lusófona (1995–2004) and the Universidade Moderna (1997–2001). In 1990 the Museu Colecção Berardo organized an extensive exhibition of his works. The Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel followed suit in 2007.

Pancho Guedes died on November 7, 2015 at his property near Graaff-Reinet in South Africa.

Works

For a referenced (but incomplete list of works by Pancho Guedes) see: List of works by Pancho Guedes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ana Vaz Milheiro: Pancho Guedes, um arquitecto heterodoxo e desconcertante. In: Público. November 7, 2015, accessed November 8, 2015 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b Dagmar Hoetzel: An alternative modernist. Pancho Guedes retrospective in Basel. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Bauwelt 40–41. 2007, p. 2 f. , archived from the original on July 26, 2014 ; Retrieved June 22, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bauwelt.de
  3. ↑ Elisiário Miranda and José Manuel Fernandes: Padaria Saipal / “Pão da Cidade”. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, October 18, 2012, accessed June 22, 2014 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Karen Eicker: 30 minutes with Pancho. (No longer available online.) In: architectafrica.com. 2003, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on June 22, 2014 (English): "I didn't get much work from the government, although some government architects were very keen that I should get work. They actually would give work to engineers on condition that I did their work. “ Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.architectafrica.com
  5. ↑ a b Jessica Marques Bonito: Aquitectura Moderna na África Lusófona . Recepção e difusão das ideias modernas em Angola e Moçambique. Ed .: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. Lisbon December 2011, p. 127 f . (Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Invitation to the funeral service at the Wits Art Museum, Braamfontein. (PDF) (No longer available online.) November 14, 2015, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; accessed on November 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / waterford.sz
personal data
SURNAME Guedes, Pancho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guedes, Amâncio d'Alpoim Miranda (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect, sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2015
Place of death Graaff-Reinet , Eastern Cape , South Africa