Fernanda Seixas, a Woman’s Take on Architecture as Social Intervention

Q4 Engineering

ZARCH Pub Date : 2022-09-02 DOI:10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022186244

Sara Sucena, João Castro Ferreira

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Abstract

This paper sheds light upon architect Fernanda Seixas (1942-2017) as a trailblazing woman in her disciplinary field in Portugal. Her archives, a set of interviews, and bibliographical research allow us to pinpoint certain characteristics that make her stand out amongst her peers, and consider her as a woman succeeding in a ‘male profession’. Trained during an era of political dissent in which she actively participated against the dictatorship of Estado Novo in the 1960s, Seixas created her own practice right after the 1974 revolution and envisaged her work as a space of socio-political activism. In the 1980s her social consciousness broadened to include environmental concerns and she became a pioneering architect on the issues of energy efficiency and bioclimatic architecture. This technical approach combined with her social ethos stand out in her planning projects and built work.

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Fernanda Seixas，女性对建筑的社会干预

本文揭示了建筑师Fernanda Seixas（1942-2017）在葡萄牙学科领域的开拓性女性。她的档案、一系列采访和文献研究使我们能够找出使她在同龄人中脱颖而出的某些特征，并将她视为一名在“男性职业”中取得成功的女性。Seixas在20世纪60年代积极参与反对Estado Novo独裁统治的政治异见时代接受过培训，她在1974年革命后创建了自己的实践，并将自己的工作设想为社会政治激进主义的空间。20世纪80年代，她的社会意识扩大到包括环境问题，她成为能源效率和生物气候建筑问题的先驱建筑师。这种技术方法与她的社会风气相结合，在她的规划项目和建筑作品中脱颖而出。

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ZARCH Engineering-Architecture

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0.20

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22 weeks

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