CALA Study Abroad Program 2006 port cities investigation P o r t u g a l . S p a i n . I t a l y

A Summary Report table of contents Faculty and Support Students

Portugal Schedule 2/15 Passoa’s Itinerary 2/15 Ana Tostões Lecture João Gomes da Silva Lecture 2/21 João Nunes Lecture Manuel Graça Dias Lecture 3/04-09 CALA/FAUTL Charette 3/04 Renee Cheng Lecture Arthur Chen Lecture 3/09 Lisbon Group Presentations

Spain Schedule 3/13 Kristine Miller Lecture

Italy Schedule 3/28 Studio Introducion 3/30 Round Table Discussion Heritage of Giudecca (write up) 4/03 Paulo Assisi Lecture Luigi Nono (write up) 4/06 Studio Review - Morphology of Quotidian Venice (sketches) 4/11 Stefano Guerzoni Lecture, The Lagoon Morphology (write up) 4/13 Studio Review - Master Plan with Connie Occhialini (sketches) 4/21 Studio Review - Interum with Marc Swackhamer (sketches) 6/04 Venice Group Presentations (different paper) faculty/lecturer participation

Arthur Chen, PhD, CALA Faculty Program Director

Lance Neckar, MLA, CALA Faculty

Bob Sykes, CALA Faculty

Dean Abbott, CALA Faculty

Leon Satkowski, CALA Faculty

Mark Swackhammer, CALA Faculty

Renee Cheng, CALA Faculty, Lecturer

Deogo Brenai, Portuguese Local Faculty

Pedro Ravarro,M. Arch Portuguese Program Coordinator

Kristine Miller, CALA Faculty

Anna Gracio, Protuguese Program Assistant

Federica Provoli, Italian Program Assistant

Francesco Calzolaio, Italian Local Faculty

Antonio Madureira, Portuguese Local Faculty

Jorge Carvalho, Casa de Musica Architect

Pedro Rasano Garcia, Museo de Luz Architect, Critic

Carlos Valles, Portuguese Local Faculty

Joao Palla, Portuguese Local Faculty

Tudi Sanmartini, Guidecca Garden Tour

Franco Mancuso, Construction site visit Laura Zampieri, Critic

Connie Occhialini, Critic

Paulo de Assis, Lecturer

Guido Zucconi, Lecturer

Joao Gomes da Silva, Lecturer

Ana Tostoes, Lecturer

Nuria Schoemberg Nono, Lecturer, Presidente Archivio Luigi Nono

Joao Nunes, Lecturer

Manuel Graca Dias, Lecturer

Isabel Moura, Gulbenkian Museum Tour

Gonçallo Ribeiro Telles, Landscape Architect Parque Gulbenkian

Duarte Cabral de Mello, Portuguese Local Faculty

Andrea del Mercato, Lecturer, Venicia Dirigente Attività Produttive Comune di Venezia

Giovanni Caniato, Lecturer, Venicia Archivio di Stato student participation

Joshua Bergeron

Brady Bussler

Snejana Dukic

Angela Enroth

Teresa Forsberg

Philip Fossen

Matthew Gamache

Anne Hake

Meredith Hayes

Rachel Hilvert

Daniel Kodet

Nat Madson

Mike McEldery

Carl Olson

Ryan O’Malley

Francois Saltre

Samantha Turnock

Russell Wilson

Lindsay Buck Steven Burzynski

Anna Claussen

Lynn Enger

Molly Gatzlaff

Jennifer Jacobs

Teigen Leonard

Hannah Loope

Joanne Richardson

Sandra Rolph

Erica Stimart

Stephanie Valenta

Bret Wieseler

braga porto viseu coimbra estremoz lisbon p o setubalr t u g a l evora lisbon schedule February 13 Arrival Meeting Hotel Borges, Lisbon, Walking Tour of Area with Deogo Brenai

February 14 Belem Naval Museum with Ana Grácio Mosteiros dos Jerónimos and Cloisters with Ana Grácio Belem Cultural Centre

February 15 Ana Tostões Lecture Title João Gomes da Silva Lecture Title Castle St. George with Ana Grácio and Baixa Districts Passoa’s Itinerary Walking Tour Sponsored Welcome Dinner at Casa do Alentejo

February 16 Cape Espichel with Pedro Ravara Arrive Setúbal Setúbal City Center with Pedro Ravara Convento Jesus with Pedro Ravara Arrive Évora Escola Superior de Educação de Setubal with Pedro Ravara Evora Walking Tour

February 17 Monsaraz Hill Town with Pedro Ravara Aldeia da Luz Museum with Pedro Ravara Malaqueira Housing Project with Pedro Ravara Paço da Mitra

Evora Theatro Baltazar Dias Modern Dance Performance February 18 Estermoz Hill Town with Pedro Ravara Placido Jose Simoes LDA Marble Quarry with Pedro Ravara Villa Viçosa with Pedro Ravara Sponsored Lunch at Maria Restaurant Arraiolos Pousada with Pedro Ravara

February 19 Igreja de São Francisco Capela dos Ossos Universidad do Evora Quinta da Bacalhoa with Pedro Ravara Arrive Lisbon February 21 João Nunes Lecture Title Manuel Graça Dias Lecture Title Mãe de Àgua Reservoire with Carlos Valles

February 22 Lisbon City Museum with Ana Grácio Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian with Isabel Moura and Gonçallo Ribeiro Telles

February 23 Abbey of Santa Maria de Alcobaça with Ana Grácio Monastery of Santa Maria de Vitória (Batalha) with Ana Grácio Convent of Christ and Castle of the Knights in Tomar with Ana Grácio Arrive in Coimbra

February 24 Walking Tour of Downtown Coimbra with Ana Grácio Botanic Garden with Ana Grácio Coimbra University with Ana Grácio Sponsored Lunch at Meta dos Leitões Aveiro University with Ana Grácio Arrive Porto Serra do Pilar at Gaia

February 25 Casa da Musica with Jorge Carvalho, António Madureira, and Pedro Ravarra Tea House at Leça da Palmeira with António Madureira, and Pedro Ravarra Bathing Complex at Matosinhos with António Madureira, and Pedro Ravarra Faculdade de Arquitectura do Porto with António Madureira, and Pedro Ravarra Serralves Museum with António Madureira, and Pedro Ravarra

February 26 Marco’s Church with Pedro Ravarra Arrive Braga with Pedro Ravarra Cultural Market in Braga with Pedro Ravarra Jardim de Santa Bárbara Braga Stadium with Pedro Ravarra Bom Jesus de Braga with Pedro Ravarra

February 27 Arrive Viseu

February 28 Grão Vasco Museum with Pedro Ravarra Arrive Lisbon lisbon schedule (continued) March 1 Arrive Sintra Fronteira e Alorna and Gardens with Carlos Valles Queluz Palace with Carlos Valles with Carlos Valles Moors Castle with Carlos Valles Seteais Palace and Port of Honor with Carlos Valles Arrive Lisbon

March 2 Northern Lisbon Housing Projects with João Palla Centro de Trasição Papa a Vida with João Palla EXPO ‘98 Site Visit with João Palla

March 4 Introduction to CALA/FAUTL Charrette with Duarte Cabral de Mello

March 6 Renee Cheng Lecture Title Arthur Chen Lecture Title

March 7 Charette

March 8 Charette

March 9 Charette Reviews Sponsored Farewell Dinner at Depart Lisbon fernando pessoa itinerary As an introduction to Lisbon’s Chiado and Baixa districts, the group was asked to independently trace the footsteps of the modern Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, documenting through sketching the various residences, pracas, and cafes that comprised the stage-set for Pessoa’s pageant. ana tostões lectures On the morning of February 15th the group assembles on the second floor of Lisbon’s storied Gremio Literario, a small social club historically known as a condenser for Lisbon’s intellectual tableaux, for the first in a series of lectures delivered by a diverse group of local professionals and academics.

Ana Tostoes, a historian, teacher and curator who specializes in Modern Portuguese Architecture speaks to us about Lisbon’s rich legacy of city planning initiatives focusing on their various ideological and historical impera- tives; from initial Enlightenment reconstruction and 19th century city beautiful movement, through fascism, modernism and now the post-industrial image industry that continues to lend the city its form. Ana’s lecture proved a valuable base narrative for Lisbon’s legible and remarkably varied urban sectors. joão gomes da silva lecture Joao Gomes De Silva, a local landscape architect, shifted the course of the discussion with a detailed presentation of one particular project, a tourist resort located on a remote island near the Bahamas. De Silva introduced the project explaining the drastic transformations the island must undergo in order to accommodate its invasive programs and how his firm had little interest in environmental preservation, nor in any 19th century conceptions of natural authenticity… This provocative stance led to the fabrica- tion of a series of sandy beach dunes creating a ‘new lagoon’ capable of accommodating an intensity of various developments on the island.

De Silva’s approach fostered discussion amongst the students as to the appropriateness of deliberately changing the ecological composition of a given place. His international clientele and liberal attitude towards environmental alteration begin to suggest a new direction for Portuguese design culture. joão nunes lectures Joao Nunes, another Portuguese landscape architect (De silva’s nemesis and sometime collaborator) begins his dense and frenetic presentation with the assertion that “We Survive by changing our environment.” Nunes proceeded to sprint through a vast catalogue of projects many of international scope. Although difficult to find ones bearings within the flurry of diverse imagery, a certain attitude emerged from the presentation regarding the intervention of a design upon a certain site… As Nunes asserted in his closing, (paraphrasing) it is impos- sible to talk about objects, for every object interacts with the forces and systems that define its landscape. manuel graça dias lecture Manuel Graca Dias discussed his recently completed Teatro Municipal in the Lisbon suburb of Almada. Graca Dias presented the building’s development chronologically working from initial sketches all the way through design documents.

Perhaps most interestingly about the presentation was the relentless pragmatism Dias exhibited while presenting and justifying the project. The theater’s form was dictated by building codes, its color by the foam-like material used in processmodels, while material was selected for its ‘cheapness’. Neverthe- less, the building exhibited an evocative poetic beauty that was far more than the sum of its parts. renee cheng lecture Renee Cheng, Director of Graduate Studies at CALA, presented a lecture titled Makers Mark: Representation in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Ultimately interested in how contemporary practice navigates the slippery realm between representation and construction, Renee explores precedents historical (Fontana, Brunelleschi) and contemporary (SHOP and Gehry) to both reveal and problematize the enigmatic architecture/construction interface. arthur chen lecture Arthur Chen: Theater Garden: Jesuit Perspective in Chinese Court Architecture Arthur Chen described the emergence in 17th century Jesuit culture of the use of images (as opposed to text) to speculate on religious truth. This form of knowledge-production, coupled with the emergence of perspectival space, was transplanted to China where it was eventually realized within the production of architectural space. Most significantly the garden came to be understood as a place of spectacle, a mentality that synthesized notions of architecture and theatre. lisbon cala/fautl design charette On March 4th Faculdade instructor Antonio Santos introduces the charrette project by pitting images of Lisbon’s richly diverse urban streetscapes against the rational mono-functional University campus while raising questions about how to establish the psychological conditions for urbanity.

The challenge of our assignment is to assess the fragmented existing Ajuda neighborhood relative to the anti-urban trajectory of the Ajuda Campus and design a single (pre-programmed) building that manages to subvert the isolationist tendencies of the existing master plan while reconciling Campus and Neigh- borhood; a loaded assignment for one single act of design.

barcelona toledo cordoba sevilla s p a i n barcelona schedule

March 10 Arrive Sevilla El Alamillo Bridge Cathedral of Seville

March 11 Arrive Cordoba Arrive Toledo Cathedral of Toledo

March 12 Igualada Cemetary Complex Arrive Barcelona

March 13 Olympic Stadium with Kristine Miller Barcelona Pavillion with Kristine Miller

March 14 Barcelonetta Waterfront Tour with Kristine Miller Gehry Fish wth Kristine Miller Parc de Diagonal with Kristine MIller Forum 2004

March 15 Walking Tour of Barrio Gotić Mercat de Santa Canterina with Kristine Miller Casa de Music with Kristine Miller Parc de Clot with Kristine Miller AGBAR Tower Sagrada Familia

March 16 Parc Güell with Kristine Miller La Pedrera with Kristine MIller Casa Batallo

March 18 Spring Break

kristine miller lecture On this damp overcast Monday morning of atop the Olympic Stadium hill of (Montjuic?) Kristine Miller meets with the group for the first time to discuss Barcelona’s robust and tormented political history. Placing particular emphasis on contextualizing Catalonia’s conflicted relationship with, and delicate position within, the country of Spain. Christine’s brief introduction suggested layers of depth to this cacophonous metropolis that could hardly be discerned in just one week’s time…

venicia murano burano torcello milan verona i t avicenza l y venice schedule March 27 Arrive Venice

March 28 Studio Introduction Sponsored Welcome Dinner at Canottieri

March 29 Tour of Guidecca and Studio Site with Francesco Calzolaio Molino Stucky with Francesco Calzolaio

March 30 Round Table Discussion Heritage of Giudecca

March 31 Cantieri Toffolo Murano Museo del Vetro Lazzaretto Nuovo Burano Museo del Marletto Torcello Museo Archeologico Bascilica di Santa Maria Assunta

April 1 Venecian Rowing Lessons

April 3 Walking Tour with Leon Satkowski Campo Bartolomeo Rialto Market and Bridge Campo San Marco Campo Santa Maria Formosa Guido Zucconi Lecture, History of the Giudecca Paulo de Assis Lecture, Nono and Scarpa

April 4 Chiesa di San Salvador with Leon Satkowski Chiesa di Santo Stefano with Leon Satkowski Chiesa de San Zaccaria with Leon Satkowski Chiesa Santa Maria dei Miracoli with Leon Satkowski

April 5 Arrive Vicenza Villa Almerico Capra, La Rotunda with Leon Satkowski Piazza de Signore with Leon Satkowski Teatro Olimpico with Leon Satkowski Palazzo Chiericati with Leon Satkowski Loggia del Capitanio with Leon Satkowski Palazzo Barbaran da Porto with Leon Satkowski Arrive Venice April 6 Chiesa e Campanile di San Giorgio Maggiore with Leon Satkowski Santissimo Redentore with Leon Satkowski Studio Review - Morphology of Quotidian Venice with Robert Sykes

April 7 Walking Tour with Leon Satkowski April 8 Arrive Milano Milano Furniture Fair

April 9 Venetian Rowing Lessons April 10 Studio with Robert Sykes April 11 Stefano Guerzoni Lecture, The Lagoon Morphology April 12 Studio with Robert Sykes April 13 Studio Review - Master Plan with Connie Occhialini April 14 Moretti Glass Tour April 17 Studio with Marc Swackhamer April 18 Giudecca Garden Tour with Tudi Sanmartini Presentation of Treatises

April 19 Studio with Marc Swackhamer April 20 Studio with Marc Swackhamer April 21 Studio Review - Interum with Marc Swackhamer April 24 Franco Mancuso Lecture, The Urban Morphology April 25 Studio with Dean Abbott April 26 Studio Review with Laura Zampieri April 27 Villa Barbaro with Federica Provoli Brion-Vega Cemetary with Federica Provoli Tempio Canoviano Canova Plaster Cast Gallery Sponsored Lunch at Asolo

April 28 Studio with Dean Abbott April 29 Venetian Rowing Lessons May 1 Studio with Dean Abbott May 2 Studio with Dean Abbott May 3 Studio with Dean Abbott May 4 Final Studio Review May 5 Sponsored Farewell Dinner at Canottieri roundtable discussion: heritage of giudecca An employee of the Venetian Municipality, Andrea Del Mercato discusses Venice’s mid-century shift to a post-industrial economy, one currently dependent on tourism but, according to Mercato, potentially able to lure enough entrepreneurial business to sustain a new brand of economy for Venice fueled by innova- tion. Del Mercato uses the Venice’s three ongoing young-business ‘incubator’ projects as precedent. The point is to allow the city the capacity to host new economic modalities. Mercato’s paradoxical aspiration: conserve / maintain, yet transform.

paulo assisi lecture Delivered from the Luigi Nono Archives on Venice’s Giudecca Island, musician and Nono scholar Paolo Assisi offers a critical glimpse into a particular piece of music that Nono had written to honor the life of Carlo Scarpa. This presentation included listening to recording’s of Nono’s work, and the screening of an archival Nono documentary produced by the BBC in the late 1960’s, which focused on the relation- ship between the musician and his Venetian roots. studio project introduction To build in Venice is to contribute to myth’s composition. To build in Venice is to measure 1500 years of charged history against today’s construction practices, styles and techniques. To vacillate between scales of appropriateness and necessity, all while dealing with, whether it be embracing or shielding against, a volatile lagoon ecosystem.

The now abandoned Lucchesse shipyard sits on the southern side of the narrow Giudecca island facing Lido peninsula and beyond this the brooding Adriatic coastline. Our challenge, beginning with a master plan and eventually working through buildings and public spaces, is to develop a design for the site that incorporates a pre-determined program of housing and workspaces for artisans. The assignment is structured to facilitate a cross-disciplinary collaboration between landscape and architecture students that productively engages the manifold dimensions of this ancient island metropolis.