La fantasia debe ser devuelt a al aarquitectura

Abstract

Pancho Guedes1 (1925), the luso-African architect (Witwatersrand University, 1953) active in Mozambique, the former Portuguese colony till the independence in 1975, made in his writings and architectural production a major contribution to the reassessment of architectural modernity, connecting different disciplines and cultures and carrying out affinities with various creators namely with the painter Malangatana Ngwenya ( 1936-2009). His fantastic and magic architecture comes from the stimulus of a large worldwide network of artists and thinkers that he himself put up from different sources such as: The Modern Movement architects, namely the South African contributors as Martiessen or the Brazilian inspiring influence referred to Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer; Frank Lloyd Wright inspiring legacy or the CIAM's critic contestation movement under the scope of Team 10 which he joined as founder member at CIAM's Royaumont meeting together with the Smithson's, Aldo Van Eyck, Candilis and Giancarlo di Carlo; or finally the new African artists which he promoted.