Uma Homenagem a Arménio Losa

Manuel Augusto Soares Mendes. Architect graduated (ESBAP, 1980), PhD (FAUP, 2011) and lecturer at ESBAP and FAUP in Architecture History and Theory subjects. He is a retired assistant professor at FAUP, where he was the head of the 2nd and 3rd-year Theory course named "Architecture Circumstance Manifesto" and "Writing Research Project", an option course for 4th and 5th-year Master students (MIARQ course). He is part of the research group "Architecture: Theory, Project, History" at CEAU-FAUP and of the Documentation and Research Center in Architectural Culture (CICA) of the Marques da Silva Foundation (FIMS). He has developed several researches in the field of 20th-century architecture - namely related to its Portuguese and Porto components-, regularly publishing written works in journals and books, such as: "Contemporary Portuguese Architecture, 1965-1985" (co-authored with Nuno Portas). Milan: Electa editrice, 1991; "'baixa portuense' - pure representation (city culture and architecture, memory and design - 14 signs for the 'city to come')" in Porto 2001: Return to Downtown. Porto: FAUP publications, 2000; "(In)forming modernity. Porto architectures, 1923-1943: morphologies, movements, metamorphoses". Porto: FAUPpublications, 2001; "'Ah, the human yearning to be river or quay!'", in Fernando Távora. Milan: Electa, 2005. In the second semester of 2003, he conducted a survey of the written work of Nuno Portas, being editor and coordinator of the publication Nuno Portas. Writings, in three volumes, finalist work at the FAD Prize, Barcelona, 2005. He designed, programmed, and (co-)organized events related to the heritage and knowledge of architecture. Between 1992 and 2006, he reorganized and directed the Editorial Service of FAUP, editing and/or producing about fifty titles. Between 2001 and 2008, he was part of the Editorial Board of the Oporto University Publisher. In 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996, he participated as a member of the Support Committee to the Jury in selecting architectural works for the European Prize for Architecture Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona.