Joana Couceiro et al.
Architect, researcher, professor and writer

Joana Couceiro et al.
Architect, researcher, professor and writer
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Lisbon Story, from the Pombaline Architect to Siza
Journal Article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.6092/2499-1422/6282)

2019

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Joana Couceiro, article abstract The theme of the façade and its ornament leads to confusion about the so-called historical styles, which is the central problem in the research for my doctoral thesis about Siza’s intervention in Lisbon’s Chiado district. The role of the façade in the design of the city was so important that, once the reconstruction strategy had been established after the 1755 earthquake, the city’s Baixa area was essentially defined with hundreds of designs for street fronts now gathered together in the critical “Pombaline” cartulary.
Two and a half centuries later, after the 1988 fire, the same principle dominated the reconstruction of Chiado by Siza, a project recurrently accused of being post-modern façadism in the Pombaline style (as defined by José-Augusto França), a hasty and ill-informed conclusion, as my research shows.
However, what is of interest here are the lessons of the masters (both ancient and modern) about a device whose potential has been forgotten in architecture and construction or remembered for the worst reasons.
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Lisbon Story, from the Pombaline Architect to Siza
Eikonocity, History and Iconography of European Cities and Sities, 4(2), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.6092/2499-1422/6282

http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/eikonocity/article/view/6282