14 Febbraio 2019
Forum of ISCTE-IUL School of Technology and Architecture (FISTA19)
Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is an international architectural practice with offices in Rome, Paris, Shenzhen.
Over the past 50 years, the company has developed an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions to airports, from museums to cultural centers and spaces for music, from convention centers to offices, from interiors to design collections. The practice has completed more than 600 projects and has worked in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Australia, receiving numerous international awards.
On Thursday 14 February 2019 the architect Massimiliano Fuksas will speak with a lectio magistralis on Studio Fuksas’s most important projects at 3.00 pm at Forum of ISCTE-IUL School of Technology and Architecture (FISTA19), Lisbon, Portugal.
Love will save the world
The context is not only what we have in front of us, which is related to the past, but it is also thinking of the cities of the future. Being contemporary means working in an area considering how it will be in, at least, the next twenty years.
These are the main issues of our days: the mutability of contemporary Architecture and Sustainability. Human beings no longer live in the countryside, but mostly in urban areas. Urban planning should be based on the study of the present, reflecting the past and carefully thinking of the consequences that our actions will have in the future.
The architect has a huge responsibility toward civil society toward human being and environment. Architecture must propose environmentally friendly solutions by making use of the most advanced technology to affect the less possible the planet creating buildings with the lowest possible energy consumption and the best possible indoor climate. But besides this we need to remember that architecture must give emotions to the people.
When we build, we think about the following principles: recreating parts of nature, incorporating water and maximizing energy storage. We firmly believe that we can improve the sustainability of our cities with acts, design and planning that integrate environmental, politic, social, intellectual and economic aspects. The aim is to create a built geography that combines landscape, economy and humanity.
Our latest projects are conceived, from initial stages, with systems that intend to reach the highest energetic efficiency levels by using geothermal science and cogeneration.
There’s no future without innovations.
Massimiliano Fuksas
