Casa da Arquitectura Centro Português de Arquitectura

Visit to Lusíada University

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Between February and July 2024, Porto City Council and Casa da Arquitectura have teamed up to organise the "Porto de Arquitetura" event, a series of free architectural visits open to the public upon prior registration, which will take place in a series of eight buildings in the city that are representative of the latest contemporary architecture developed here.

Each visit is accompanied by a talk with the architects and other personalities linked to the spaces, which will give an insider's view of the process of designing, building and restoring the works.

27th July

16h00

Visit to the Lusíada University of Porto - Registration here

Visit led by architect José Mendes Godinho

17h00

Talk "The University and the new urban dynamics" - Registration here

with

Professor Francisco Castelo Branco
Paulo Ferraz

Architect Teresa Cálix
Architect José Godinho

Architect Fátima Fernandes (mod)

An institution that has been part of the city's history for the last 30 years, the Lusíada University of Porto recently built its new facilities in one of the city's most central areas, close to the City Park and the Serralves Foundation. Lusíada University's new building fulfils its desire to improve teaching and working conditions for its students, teachers and staff.

Alongside this aim, which was realised in auditoriums, classrooms and services, other elements were integrated, such as a square for informal community gatherings, with the library as a central and symbolic element, and non-functioning spaces open to life and appropriation. This building resulted in the qualification of the urban area in which it is located and justified the clarification of the surrounding road structure.

Project and completion date: 2013-2021

Author: José Mendes Godinho

Address: Rua de Moçambique, 21 e 71

4100-348 Porto

Biography

José António Sarmento e Castro Mendes Godinho was born in Luanda on 2nd December 1966. He graduated in architecture from the Lusíada University of Porto in 1994. In 1996, he completed the Master's programme in Architecture Theory at the Lusíada University of Lisbon and, in 1997, he obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Architecture Theory from the Lusíada University of Lisbon. In 2000 he completed his PhD at the University of Valadollid, Spain. Between 1994 and 2004 he was a lecturer at the Lusíada University of Porto.

Supervised several professional internships for the architects' association and the European Union's PRODEP programme. Between 2002/2006 he collaborated with the Lusíada University of Angola in setting up the Architecture programme. Between 2006/2020 he was a consultant for the Lusíada University of Angola and the Lusíada de Cabinda and Lusíada da Lunda Sul Higher Polytechnic Institutes, for institutional development and planning of teaching spaces.

He is a member of the Angolan Architects' Association (Ordem dos Arquitectos Angolanos) with the number 196 and a member of the Portuguese Architects' Association with the number 5086.

He is currently a lecturer at the Lusíada University in Porto, where he also heads the facilities services department.