Casa da Arquitectura and Marques da Silva Foundation establish cooperation protocol
The Protocol aims to create mechanisms for joint co-operation that will enhance the study and dissemination of the work carried out by both entities in the treatment and archival conservation of the various collections in their care, as well as the "mutual exploitation of technical, human and innovative potential".
The agreement will make it possible to define "co-operation mechanisms that make it possible to participate jointly in activities and projects that promote and enhance the study and dissemination of work arising from archival treatment", namely through the provision, transfer and consultation of the respective collections for academic and scientific research.
It is also planned to make documentation from the respective collections available in exhibitions, catalogues, publications and other forms of national and international promotion and dissemination of architecture, as well as mutual dissemination of activities and joint provision of spaces for events.
Casa da Arquitectura and the Marques da Silva Foundation are thus joining forces in order to boost the work that both northern entities are doing in the study and conservation of a vast and diversified heritage made up of documentary and architectural collections, maximising the "technical, human and innovative potential in all matters that are in some way interconnected with architecture and its role in society, culture and the economy".
For the executive director of Casa da Arquitectura, Nuno Sampaio, the two organisations have come together "in the interests of Portuguese architecture, strengthening cooperation to better promote the treatment of collections, architectural research and the dissemination of these collections and their study to a wider public, both national and international".
For the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Porto and President of the Board of Directors of the Marques da Silva Foundation, Fátima Vieira, "the cooperation that already existed has now been strengthened by this protocol, which will benefit the northern region and enrich architecture, giving greater visibility to the work of preservation, classification, archiving, digitisation, research and communication that both institutions carry out."
Founded in 2007, Casa da Arquitectura holds several titles of architectural collections of prestigious national and international architects, which it processes, archives, conserves, disseminates and exhibits - national and international architectural, urban planning and landscaping projects or collections, with more than 240 authors and donors involved, including the architects Eduardo Souto de Moura, Paulo Mendes da Rocha (both Pritzker Prize winners) and Lúcio Costa, among others - as well as several collections and documentary and photographic collections related to architecture, which it processes, archives, disseminates and exhibits.
The Marques da Silva Foundation was established by the University of Porto and is the owner of a diverse set of assets, consisting not only of buildings, but also of documentary collections in various media, available for consultation and research in its Documentation Centre. Of these collections, with a variety of undeniable cultural, artistic and architectural value, the professional archives of architects José Marques da Silva, Fernando Távora, Alcino Soutinho, Bartolomeu Costa Cabral, Manuel Graça Dias, Nuno Portas, José Forjaz, Alexandre Alves Costa, Sergio Fernandez and Adalberto Dias stand out.
In recent years, thanks in part to the merger of collections with the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, the Marques da Silva Foundation has started to make available, promote research and disseminate documentation on the work of around six dozen architects, who as a whole are fundamental to understanding the history of Portuguese architecture in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
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