Raúl Hestnes Ferreira

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Raúl Hestnes Ferreira (born November 24, 1931 in Lisbon ; † February 11, 2018 there ) was a Portuguese architect .

Life

Raúl Hestnes Ferreira was the son of the writer José Gomes Ferreira . He came to architecture through family contact with Francisco Keil do Amaral and studied at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto and the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa . After graduating in 1961, he studied at Yale University , University of Pennsylvania and Helsinki School on a Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship . In Philadelphia he worked for Louis Kahn from 1961 to 1963 .

In addition to his architectural work, taught at the architecture department of ESBAL (1970–1972), at the architecture course of the Arquitetura da Cooperativa Árvore do Porto (1986–1988) and was full professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University from 1991 to 2003 Coimbra and at the ISCTE from 2001 to 2003. From 2010 until his death he taught as a professor at the Institute of Architecture at the Universidade Lusófona .

In 2002 he received the Prémio Valmor de Arquitetura for his design of the ISCTE building of the ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa in Lisbon . He was an honorary member of the Ordem dos Arquitectos .

He was the father of the actor Pedro Hestnes (1962-2011).

Buildings and projects (selection)

  • Benfica Secondary School (named after his father, José Gomes Ferreira)
  • Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Lisbon
  • ISCTE in Lisbon
  • Beja House of Culture
  • Marvila Library in Lisbon
  • Residential house in Albarraque
  • Residential developments in the Fonseca and Calçada neighborhoods in Alvalade, Lisbon
  • Opéra Bastille in Paris (finalist in the competition)

Awards and honors (selection)

  • State Prize for Architecture and Urban Planning (Prémio Nacional de Arquitectura e Urbanismo)
  • National Prize for Architecture and Urbanism from 1982, of the Portuguese section of the International Association of Art Critics (Associação Internacional de Críticos de Arte)
  • State Prize for Architecture of the Old Association of Architects (Prémio Nacional de Arquitetura da antiga associação de arquitetos)
  • Valmor Prize (Prémio Valmor de Arquitetura)
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Coimbra

Web links

Commons : Raul Hestnes Ferreira  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Morreu o arquiteto Raul Hestnes Ferreira" on cmjournal.pt of February 12, 2018 (pt.)
personal data
SURNAME Ferreira, Raul Hestnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2018
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal