“40 Dias/40 Days” is an editing project dedicated to the physical publication of a bilingual book that reports, revisits and critically reinterprets a research project initiated in a set of tertulias, called “Desde Casa”, held live on the digital platform Instagram, during the initial period of the quarantine.
Over 40 consecutive days, between 21 March and 29 April 2020, the Portuguese architect, teacher, researcher and curator Andreia Garcia talked, for periods between 30 and 90 minutes, with 20 architects and 20 architects, national and international, seeking to reflect on the Covid 19 pandemic, the obligation of confinement and its impacts on Architecture, the City and Society. Believing in the importance of preservation and critical analysis of these reflections for future memory as an operative tool, the will arose to edit this publication and to disseminate it nationally and internationally.
In this sense, the editorial project consists in the transcription, critical interpretation, editing, translation, proofreading and publication of the 40 tertulias held, in book format, bilingual, formalising a physical publication that builds upon these reflections, in critical times.
More than a closed critical synthesis, this publication is intended to be an open platform that may allow the discovery and exploration of other paths and directions for the understanding of the relationship between Man and the world and the role of Architecture in its mediation.
40 days
Edition • 2022, Porto, publication
40 days
Edition
Authorship
Andreia Garcia
Talks
Jorge Garcia Pereira Ana Neiva
Nuno Grande
Inês Moreira
Pedro Campos Costa
Ana Jara
Tiago Mota Saraiva Mariana Pestana
Luís Maria Baptista Lucinda Correia
Pedro Novo
Dulcineia Santos
Luís Santiago Baptista Paula Melâneo
Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues Patrícia Barbas
André Tavares
Teresa Novais
Pedro Vada
Fabrícia Valente
Pedro Gadanho
Mariana Sendas
Pedro Bragança Giovanna Borasi
Pedro Bandeira
Maria Conceição Melo Carlos Antunes Alexandra Cruz
Miguel Figueira
Paula Santos
Jorge Mealha
Lara Seixo Rodrigues Nuno Sampaio
Rita Aguiar Rodrigues João Crisóstomo
Eliana Sousa Santos Bernardo Brito Abreu Mafalda Rangel
José Mateus
Ana Tostões
Foreword
Andreia Garcia
Afterword
Paulo David
Publisher
Architectural Affairs
Editor and Editorial Coordinator
Andreia Garcia
Co-editor and Proofreading
Leonel Barbosa
Transcription
Andreia Garcia, Rita Amado
Translation and Proofreading
Anabel Goulart, Fran Seftel and Russell Shackleford
Design
And Atelier — João Araújo & Rita Huet
Printer
Gráfica Maiadouro
Print run
500
ISBN
978-989-54508-2-4
Legal deposit
499507/22
Acknowledgment
Canadian Center for Architecture Casa da Arquitectura
Diogo Aguiar
Fran Seftel
José Garcia
Julia Albani
Trienal de Lisboa
Todos os participantes das conversas Desde Casa / All the participants A edição deste livro foi em parte possível graças ao apoio da Direcção Geral das Artes
(DGARTES) | Apoio a Projectos — Criação e Edição, 2020