Arquitetura Imaginária

Tal como a anterior dedicada a Joaquim Machado de Castro, a nova exposição temporária do MNAA, “Arquitetura Imaginária”, é mais … More

Fabrico Próprio, New and Improved

Os primeiros 1000 exemplares da segunda edição do livro chegaram ao Estúdio Pedrita dia 11 de Setembro. Começámos de imediato … More

CRITICAL: Lisbon

From 16-21 July 2012 Lev Bratishenko, Becky Quintal and I will be coordinating a workshop dedicated to talking, writing, and publishing critically about architecture.

Monsieur Hulot and his plan

Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle premiered May 10th, 1958. Exactly 54 years later, I revisited its modern, over-designed world in my op-ed … More

The place of design and fashion in North Africa

Ever since the time of Herodotus, the history of North Africa has also been the history of its imaginary. Beyond … More

Pôr o design no seu lugar

Dia 31 de Março vou estar em Coimbra para a primeira edição do Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Design. A … More

Design e Cidade

A convite da Guimarães 2012 – Capital Europeia da Cultura e do projecto Use-it, estarei em Guimarães esta sexta, dia … More

A Gente Transforma

Durante a pesquisa sobre design brasileiro que comecei com a minha tese de mestrado conheci vários designers que, em todo … More

Próximo Futuro

De que forma é que a prática, a cobertura jornalística, a curadoria e a crítica académica do design brasileiro estão … More

Um novo desafio

Já passava da 1 da manhã quando há quatro meses saltei da cama e enviei um email à Joana … More

Ace America

In the Summer of 2010 I stayed at all three Ace hotels on the West Coast of the USA – … More

Small world, big family

My review of the Graphic Design Worlds exhibition is up on the 2/2011 issue of items magazine. Op nederlands, natuurlijk. … More

Casa Vogue

A edição de Novembro de 2010 marca o início da minha colaboração com a Casa Vogue Brasil. A minha ‘matéria’ … More

A Felicidade Está à Venda?

Nos dias 4 e 5 de Novembro tive a honra de participar, na Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, no workshop de investigação … More

Brazilian Design Biennial 2010

My review of the 2010 edition of the Brazilian Design Biennial, which took place in Curitiba early this Spring, is in the … More

When captions matter

This morning I visited the Art Deco, 1925 exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. This world-class, exquisite show would … More

Pan Am, 1970-1971

My research project on Ivan Chermayeff’s posters for Pan Am has just had its fourth incarnation: after presenting my findings … More

Who’s your cereal bar?

Whether you missed breakfast, need a workout power boost or a mid-afternoon snack, there’s always a cereal bar to get … More

Design on Trial · Abitare

Konstantin Grcic’s 360ºC chair for Magis is a product that defies classification. It’s a chair that doesn’t look like anything … More

Metropolis magazine, redesigned: when less is still too much

The printed version of Metropolis magazine has shrunk as of last September. The result of a publishing crisis-induced redesign (in … More

Alvorada

From today, and for a month, follow me at Alvorada. Até já!

Safety as Entertainment

My favourite part of the Delta Airlines flying experience is seeing its inflight security video. Seriously. Inflight security videos (if … More

Antibodies

I won’t make it to Weil-am-Rhein for the Fernando and Humberto Campana 20-year retrospective, but its rich catalogue is already … More

Brazil com S

O Ricardo Hartmann mandou-me ontem a letra deste dueto entre a Rita Lee e o João Gilberto, para inspiração. Entretanto … More

That’s what it’s all about

When we met a few weeks ago, Susan Yelavich suggested I read Cornel West’s essay “The New Cultural Politics of … More

Coming Together: 48 hours of European Creativity

Creativity, innovation, regions, clusters, mobility, funding, education, risk, opportunity, competitiveness, sustainability, networks, integration, culture, fertile grounds, Europe, America. This simultaneously-translated, … More

simples, illustrated

a few more images of one of my favourite school assignments ever after the jump.

Rockefeller Magic

I have to say there is something special about this place. Merry Christmas.

Betty Grable

Countering the one-way street of mechanical and structural determinism, [Raymond Loewy] declared that ‘there is as much [to be gained] … More

Progress

“There are times when we are perhaps visited by a mild nostalgia for the harmless and leisured times before the … More

Proprietary Eponyms Catalogue

I chose 12 Proprietary Eponyms out of all these suggestions that arrived from all over the world to my inbox: Kodak, Xerox, … More

Cold Glass

Our visit to Philip Johnson’s Glass House was great, but it was a very cold Connecticut Fall day and I … More

Playtime

Last Wednesday I went up Park Avenue with Ada Louise Huxtable’s guide in hand. All this is pure Jacques Tati. … More

I heart Lewis Mumford

“There are moments when separation is advisable for even the most loving couples — when there is illness, or when … More

Shake Shack

Last night I had my first hamburger on American soil: having arrived in New York exactly two weeks today, one may say it took me quite a while to eat one.