Agarez, Ricardo & Mota, Nelson
Agarez, Ricardo & Mota, Nelson
Bio Sketch
Ricardo Agarez is an architect and architectural historian (Ghent University, formerly RIBA President's Award for Research, PhD University College London) specializing in the history and theory of modern architecture, regional/national identities, housing, and "architectural culture in bureaucracy." Nelson Mota is Assistant Professor at TU Delft and guest scholar at The Berlage, whose doctoral dissertation, "An Archaeology of the Ordinary," concerns the relationship between vernacular social/spatial practices and the architecture of dwelling.
Key Works
- "The 'Bread & Butter' of Architecture: Investigating Everyday Practices" (2015, eds.) — the Footprint issue and introductory essay on the everyday, salaried, and bureaucratic practice of architecture.
- Agarez, Algarve Building: Modernism, Regionalism and Architecture in the South of Portugal, 1925–1965 (2016) — regional modernism.
- Mota, A Arquitectura do Quotidiano (2010) — the architecture of the everyday/quotidian.
Key Concepts
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Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Agarez and Mota's recovery of the "bread-and-butter" and salaried everyday of architecture is directly relevant to Geoffrey's vernacular & everyday architecture area: their flat-ontology argument and critique of the hero-genius myth connect the everyday of professional practice to the everyday of users, and to Geoffrey's interest in grey/ordinary architecture and architecture-without-architects.
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