[Reader-list] Invitation - Talk By Paulo V Gomes - "Strange Bedfellows"

[kaiwan mehta]

*Invitation  *



You are cordially invited to a talk by



*Paulo Valera Gomes*

**

Titled

*Strange Bedfellows: Architectural History, Architectural Practice and
Politics. *

*(The American historian George Kubler (1912-1996) and Portuguese
architecture: a case study) *

**

On Friday 2 February, 2007 @ 11 : 00 am



Venue: Auditorium, Rachna Sansad's *Academy** of Architecture*, Prabhadevi,
Mumbai.





The American historian *George Kubler* (1912-1996) and Portuguese
architecture – a case study:

It is about how a very famous American architectural historian, trained in
the history of pre-colombian American architecture, ie non-European
architecture, wrote a book about Portuguese 16th-17 th century architecture
reading it as partially non-European, which book was appropriated by left
oriented historians and architects in Portugal in the 1970s and 1980s in
order to present Portuguese architecture of the past and of the present as
unique and "non-aligned" with European styles.



*Paulo Varela Gomes* is an architectural and art historian teaching at the
Department of Architecture of the School of Science and Technology of the
University of Coimbra, Portugal. His current subjects of teaching and
expertise are the history of European and euro-colonial architecture in the
16th and 17th centuries. But he has also worked on the history of 20th
century architecture and he regularly wrote articles about contemporary
architecture for journals and newspapers, besides curating Portugal 1991
architecture exhibition in Brussels, Belgium. He is the author of some books
and many papers on architecture and art and he is the editor of MURPHY, a
journal of architectural history and theory published in Portuguese and
English by the University of Coimbra.



*Note:* The *Let's Talk feature in  * *Indian Architect & Builde*r 's
January 2007 carries an interview with Paulo V Gomes.



Supported by:

Rachna Sansad's Academy of Architecture

Indian Architect & Builder


-- 
Kaiwan Mehta
Architect and Urban Researcher

Senior Lecturer - K Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and
Environmental Studies, Mumbai

Assistant Editor - Indian Architect & Builder

11/4, Kassinath Bldg. No. 2, Kassinath St., Tardeo, Mumbai 400034
022-2-494 3259 / 91-98205 56436

-- 
Kaiwan Mehta
Architect and Urban Researcher

Senior Lecturer - K Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute of Architecture and
Environmental Studies, Mumbai

Assistant Editor - Indian Architect & Builder

11/4, Kassinath Bldg. No. 2, Kassinath St., Tardeo, Mumbai 400034
022-2-494 3259 / 91-98205 56436
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