Angola 2009 The work in Angola 2009 was a preparation for the Portuguese Official representation at the 8th Architecture Exhibition of the São Paulo Biennial (October 2009). The objective was: identify a real location for a

primary school and present a architecture project with a low construction cost envisaging a future concretization. During the architect’s Jorge Figueira visit in Angola, it was asked to present a project for a secondary school what was accepted.

General coordination: Jorge Barreto Xavier Executive coordination: Manuel Henriques Curator: Manuel Graça Dias

Architect: Jorge Figueira Production: Direção-Geral das Artes Local assistance: Portuguese Ambassy, Government of Angola

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Jorge Figueira (1965)

/Degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of Porto University (FAUP, 1992).Doctorate in Architecture in the field of Architecture Theory and History from Coimbra University, with dissertation on “The Perfect Periphery: post-modernity in Portuguese architecture, 1960s-1980s” (2009).Teaches History of Contemporary Architecture in the Architecture Department of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Coimbra University (FCT-UC), where has lectured since 1992, and in the Doctorate Programme in Architecture at FAUP (since 2009).In the past decade curator of various architecture gatherings and exhibitions, among them the Insertions Seminar (DA/FCTUC and Coimbra 2003/co-curator) and the exhibitions, “Europe, Portuguese architecture in emission” (Portugal Group at the 2007 Lisbon Architecture Triennial /co-curator) and “Álvaro Siza: modern redux” (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008). Author of the books: Escola do Porto: Um mapa crítico (Coimbra: eIdIarq, 2002); SMS:SOS. A nova visualidade de Coimbra, (Concepção e coord./ Coimbra: 2003/Edições ASA, 2003); Agora que está tudo a mudar: Arquitectura em Portugal (Casal de Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 2005); A noite em arquitectura (Lisbon:Relógio d´Água, 2007); and Álvaro Siza. Modern redux (ed./Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2008). In the project area worked in the FAUP Studies Centre (1991-1996); carried out renewal projects at the Crystal Palace complex in Porto, including restoration of the Acoustic Shell and renovation of the restaurant; selected (co-author) in the “Ideas Competition for the Expo’98 Site (Lisbon, 1993); has worked since 1998 on project for the university campus in Angra do Heroísmo in the Azores, where co-designed the Classrooms, Auditorium and Library building (1999-2007); also planned for the same campus the Social Action Services building (2006-2009), Interdepartmental building (under construction) and Students Association building.

2007

Jorge Barreto Xavier/ I-Zone

Creating new perspectives for the National History Museum of Luanda