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Jose Lobo Almeida Architect

2016

I was pleased to be invited by a colleague, Jose Almeida, for a short collaboration with his architectural studio. We participated in a Mangualde council competition, a small village in Portugal, for the rehabilitation project of its now abandoned Cine-theatre. The project moved forward and is now going to be constructed. My work mainly concerned the thinking, drawing and modelling processes of the first conceptual project stages. Mangualde Cine-theatre is a cultural public heritage building and an icon of Portuguese modern architecture, designed by the illustrious architect Francisco Keil do Amaral in 1947-48.