Vasco Vieira da Costa

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Vasco Vieira da Costa (* 1911 in Aveiro ; † 1982 in Porto ) was a Portuguese architect.

Life

He moved to Angola with his parents at an early age , from where he returned to Portugal in 1940 with a scholarship from the colonial government to study architecture at the Escola de Belas Artes in Porto . After graduating in 1945 he went to Paris, where he initially studied at the Institut d'urbanisme and then worked with Le Corbusier from 1946 to 1948 .

In 1949 Vieira da Costa returned to Luanda , where he accepted a position in a planning department of the city administration. After increasing differences with the colonial government, he gave up his job and worked from then on as a freelance architect. From 1959 he entered into a collaboration with the Laboratório de Engenharia de Luanda ( Luanda Engineering Development Office). In 1970 he became a delegate of the Angolan section of Portugal's architects' union, proposed by Francisco Castro Rodrigues . After independence, he took the citizenship of Angola and founded the architecture school Escola de Arquitectura de Luanda in Luanda in 1979 with the support of his alma mater , of which he was director until his death in 1982.

Works (selection)

  • The building of Anangola, Luanda, built in 1963, in 2005
    1932: Teatro Nacional Chá da Caxinde, Luanda
  • 1952–1952: Mercado do Quinaxixe , Luanda; Market hall, demolished in 2008
  • 1960s: Cinema São Paulo, Luanda
  • 1960s: Instituto Pio XII de Educação e Serviço Social, Luanda
  • 1963: Edifício da Anangola, Luanda
  • 1965: Residência de Estudantes, Luanda
  • 1965: Laboratório de Engenharia de Luanda, Luanda
  • 1965: Edifício Servidores do Estado, Luanda
  • 1968: Casa Inglesa, Luanda
  • 1968: Ministério das Obras Públicas de Angola, also Edifício Alfredo Matos, Luanda
  • 1970: Hospital Escolar Veterinário, Nova Lisboa [Huambo]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ana Tostões (ed.): Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique . 1st edition. Caleidoscópio, Lisbon 2014, ISBN 978-989-658-240-1 , p. 448 .
  2. ↑ Ana Magalhães / Inês Gonalves: Moderno Tropical - Arquitectura em Angola e Moçambique, 1948-1975 1st Edition, tinta-de-china, Lisbon 2009, p 195th
  3. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Teatro Nacional "Chá de Caxinde". In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Mercado Municipal do Kinaxixe / Kinaxixi (Quinaxixe). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  5. ^ Tiago Lourenço, João Almeida: Cinema São Paulo. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. Retrieved February 14, 2016 (Portuguese, 2013/14).
  6. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Instituto Pio XII de Educação e Serviço Social. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2013, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  7. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Edifício da Anangola. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2013, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  8. ^ Tiago Lourenço: Residência de Estudantes Karl Marx. In: Sistema de Informação para o Património Arquitectónico. 2011, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  9. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Laboratório de Engenharia de Angola (LEA). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  10. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Bloco de Habitação Coletiva (Edifício Servidores do Estado). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  11. ↑ José Manuel Fernandes: Antiga Casa Inglesa. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, May 4, 2012, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  12. ^ João Vieira Caldas: Edifício Alfredo Matos (atual Ministério do Urbanismo e Obras Públicas). In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
  13. ↑ Ana Tostões, Daniela Arnaut: Hospital Escolar veterinário. In: Património de Influência Portuguesa (HPIP). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, January 15, 2016, accessed February 14, 2016 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME Vieira da Costa, Vasco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Aveiro (Portugal)
DATE OF DEATH 1982
Place of death postage