Paulo Providência – Lar / Lár : understanding in order to translate

Thursday 26th September -7.15 pm

JN Synge Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
Admission €5 (+€5 cpd), free to all TCD students & staff

Following the talk Paulo will be in conversation with Marcus Donaghy and Will Dimond of Donaghy Dimond Architects.

Paulo Providência was born in Coimbra in 1962. Educated at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto,1989. PhD,University of Coimbra, 2007. Researcher at CES (Centre for Social Studies), University of Coimbra, Portugal.

His main professional work as an architect is concerned with programmatic responses related to specific contexts: the Laundry of S.Nicolau (Porto 1992), the Renovation of S. Salvador de Figueiredo Church (Braga 1996-98), the Workshops for the Teatro Nacional S. João (Porto 2001-04), or the Medical Healthcare Centre (Vila do Conde 2001-05), are some examples of this aim.

Beyond his activity as architect, he has written mainly about modernity. He’s the author of a study about hospital construction in XIXth century (A Cabana do Higienista, 2000), was co-editor ofa guide on modern architecture in Porto (Porto 1901-2001, Guia de Arquitectura Moderna, 2001), as well as editor of a collection of theoretical writings by Georges Teyssot (Georges Teyssot Dateoria de arquitectura: doze ensaios, 2010). Recently he was guest-editor of “Crisscrossing Anthropology and Architecture” (Joelho #2, 2011) and “Teaching through Design” (Joelho #4, 2013), and published a book on the National Leprosy of Portugal (Leprosaria Nacional, Dafne, 2013).

He is Design Studio lecturer at the Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and has been invited as Guest Critic at UCD (Dublin), SAUL (Limerick) and ETH (Zurich).

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KINDLY SPONSORED BY THE PORTUGUESE EMBASSY, IRELAND

photo by Fernando Guerra.

The Paulo Providência Lecture is NOT an IAF event and is delivered by the Architectural Association of Ireland for more information please visit their website.