SHARE.EAAD #28 Jorge Santos | ‘Grand tour’: An Exercise for the Memory

 

“An exercise for the memory – drawn script for an intervention proposal on ruins”, intends to focus, in a first phase, on deepening the theme of traveling and drawing as fundamental elements for the training, learning, and understanding of architecture, its places, and circumstances.
The script of this investigation is geographically related to the idea of travelling along national and forest roads through the rural area of the Barroso region, in northern Portugal.
The ruins reflect the ephemerality of our existence, as time passes, they deteriorate, ageing and being returned to nature, although some remain eternal, ageless.
I search for ruins to draw and understand them, to build a personal memory, but always aware that they are also memories of something that existed before, trying to avoid the risk of losing myself in its beauty through its contemplation, and, in the end, not even getting to know them.

 

Biography
Jorge Manuel Barroso Ferreira dos Santos. Architect by the School of Architecture of the University of Minho (2012). Between 2012 and 2016 works the Carlos Castanheira and Álvaro Siza Vieira. In 2014, wins the first prize of the PEPEM (Prizes for Internships in Portugal and Abroad) competition promoted by the OASRS. Between 2020 and 2022, he received a grant from the Getty Foundation under the Keeping it Modern project. In addition to practice of the profession, he is a PhD student at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, with a research proposal focused on the RUIN theme, now founded by an FCT 2022 grant.

 

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Image: Houses in the mountains. Fieldwork, 2023. Jorge Santos.