Curator Brian Carter to Give Public Lecture on Portuguese Architecture Firm

October 12, 2006

Brian Carter, professor and dean of architecture at State University of New York at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning, will give a free public lecture at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18, in 101 Stuckeman Family Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

In his exhibition presentation, titled “Re-Encountering Modernism: Siting the Work of Aires Mateus in the New Landscapes of Portugal,” Carter, the curator of the concurrent exhibit in the Willard P. Rouse III Gallery, 152 Stuckeman Family Building, will present the work of Aires Mateus in the context of modern architecture in Portugal. Aires Mateus amd Associates is an architectural practice in Lisbon since 1988 consisting of the brothers Manuel and Francisco Xavier Rocha de Aires Mateus, who are professors at the Universidade Lusiada in Lisbon and teach at the Accademia di Archittura di Mendrisco in Switzerland.

Carter’s presentation will present several projects of Aires Mateus, including several residences and renovations of historic buildings throughout Portugal, public and religious buildings in Lisbon, and other civic buildings, including the Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon and the Lighthouse Museum in Cascais. The lecture will focus on the work in the context of the changing historic and economic conditions in Portugal and in relationship to the guiding influences of Alvaro Siza and other international architects.

For more information, contact Lisa D. Iulo, assistant professor of architecture, at ldi1@psu.edu.

Contact: Flora Marynak, fwm1@psu.edu or 814.863.0621