This architecture technical magazine is elaborated at the country of Álvaro Siza Vieira (Pritzker prize) and Eduardo Souto de Moura (also Pritzker prize) - Portugal.
It is also the country of Gonçalo Byrne, Aires Mateus, Fernando Távora among many others of great international prestige.
The HOUSE DETAILS MAGAZINE, is a technical magazine created by architects for architects.
The whole team is formed by active professionals that are also collectors of books and magazines of architecture for many years.
The editor is an architect and also the owner of the "Técnica Livraria" (architecture bookshop - www.tecnicalivraria.com) in Lisbon. This space permits the whole team access not only to the highest technical levels of architecture, but also to all the news that are being launched around the world concerning editors and bookshops specialized in this field.
This magazine, has unique characteristics in the world regarding periodical publications, such as, the combination of the projects of architecture, stability (engineering) and water and sewage.
In case the two last elements are missing, they will be replaced by others.
The inclusion of stability project on the magazine, is owed to the valuable collaboration of skilled engineers who have been the team's friends for many years.
The magazine's technical talent, is underlined by an article written with a high technical and scientific component, commonly designated as "papers", developed by investigators and/or by PhD in architecture or engineering.
The philosophy of creating a magazine and its objectives
I hope to succeed in this assignment.
During a long period of a crisis in architecture, I got used to hearing complaints and daily accounts of difficult lives. At the bookshop, I began to let the people borrow books, and pay later, letting them read the books at the coffee shop esplanade next door or even refusing payments from clients whom I knew well and trusted, in an attempt to make things less difficult for them although, the bookshop was not doing well at the time.
I was always very impressed by the enormous efforts made by some of my colleagues and the fact that their merits were never recognised.
This compilation is therefore a small contribution in an endeavour to be of use in the following three ways:
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To disclose some unknown, or less known Portuguese architects who have greatly impressed me, some by their extreme dedication and true love for the profession, others by being bearers of unusual skills and yet others for a special way they think about people and architecture.
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To introduce into the market an architectural magazine with greater technical character displaying more detailed projects.
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On buying this magazine, you will see how you will have just contributed monetarily to an institution and to the people who are identified at the end.
Thank you very much for this
I wish that everything goes well for you on a professional level and above all, on a personal level.
I wish everything goes well for you.
Nuno Teixeira
Editor