An Aesthetically Sublime Second Nature

Ana Tostões

doi:10.52200/45.A.VWHRNH24

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Ana Tostões IST–UTL

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https://doi.org/10.52200/45.A.VWHRNH24

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Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern housing

Abstract

The search on Bridges and Infrastructures has to do with a matter of connecting. To launch bridges seems to be a kind of life requirement, as far as it is the way to connect sides, which means improving relations and energies, desire and intelligence. Bridges and Infrastructures have the function of connecting pieces of land and the role of creating a connected world. The matter is to make links and establish a network. In fact, it is a global network made of works of art, which have a physical and material presence balancing between values such as economy and elegance and providing a better life for every man. Seeking audaciously for innovation, research contributes to these large scale structures as it has been improving material capacities and technical creation. It is a huge field that lay infinite possibilities for art and science to perceive changes of social, aesthetic, technical standards and norms.

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Tostões, A. (2011). An Aesthetically Sublime Second Nature. Docomomo Journal, (45), 2–3. https://doi.org/10.52200/45.A.VWHRNH24

Published

2011-12-01

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No. 45 (2011): Bridges and Infrastructures

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Editorial

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Author Biography

Ana Tostões, IST–UTL

Is chair of docomomo International (www.docomomo.com). Architect, architecture historian and associate professor with habilitation at IST–UTL, Lisbon, where she is coordinating the architectural PhD Program. Her research field is the twentieth century architectural and urban history with an emphasis on rehabilitation practices, focusing especially on post–war architectural culture and relations between European, African and American. On these topics she has published widely, curated exhibitions, and taken part in juries and scientific committees. Tostões has been vice–president of the Portuguese Border of Architects and the Portuguese section of the International Association of Art Critics. She’s actually coordinating the research project (PTDC/AUR–AQI/103229/2008) EWV: Exchanging World Visions. The project aims to study Sub–Sahara African architecture and planning mostly built in Angola and Mozambique during the Modern Movement period.