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Gonçalo André Pires is an architect and co-founder, together with Pedro Santo Saraiva, of Studio Sotnas, a practice based between Aarhus and Lisbon.
"While in the 90s and 2000s there were a lot of idealistic inventions and visions that wanted to be forced into being, now it’s more about reassembling and reorganising existing meanings and values in the things that we might we already have at hand, understanding that it’s more about discovering than inventing. We’re interested in bringing meaning to a building from the components that are essential to it." – GAP
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“Modern architects have been harping continually on what is different in our time to such an extent, that even they have lost touch with what is not different, with what is always essentially the same”“Modern architects have been harping continually on what is different in our time to such an extent, that even they have lost touch with what is not different, with what is always essentially the same”
Aldo Van Eyck, first published in the Team Ten Primer, late 1950s
John Young’s apartment
Jaques Herzog, House for an Art Collector
Architecture and the Sciences by Antoine Picon (2003)
The Savage Mind by Claude Levi Strauss (1962)
Mechanisation Takes Command by Siegfried Gideon (1948)
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