O Castelo do Francis

Gonçalo Furtado
Gonçalo M. Furtado C. Lopes is graduated in Architecture (Oporto University, Portugal), Master in Architecture (Universidad Politecnica da Catalunha, Spain), and PhD in Theory and History of Architecture (University College of London, England). His PhD dissertation focuses on the encounters of the British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. He has given lectures in Portugal, United Kingdom, United States of America, Spain, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and he is the author of books such as “Notes on the space of digital technique” (Oporto: Mimesis, 2002), “Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable bodies (Oporto: Mimesis, 2004), “Off fourm: Postglobal city and marginal design discourses” (Bogota: Pei, 2004), “Interferencias: Conformação, implementação e futuro da cultura digital” (Oporto, 2005), “The construction of the critical project” (Bogota: Pei, 2006), “Architecture: Bodies, spaces and machines” (Oporto: FaupEditorial, 2006) .
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