The architect Helena Roseta will be honored this Tuesday by the Ordem dos Arquitetos, in a solemn session, at 6:30 p.m., at the headquarters of that entity, being the first woman to receive a tribute within the framework of the National Day of the Architect.
The initiative has been annual since 2010, with an interruption in 2020 and 2021, due to the pandemic, after a collective tribute was paid in 2019 to architects with more than 50 years of associative life.
In previous years, tribute was paid to the architects Manuel Tainha (2010), Bartolomeu Costa Cabral (2011), Francisco Silva Dias (2012), Alcino Soutinho (2013), Raul Hestnes Ferreira (2014), Eduardo Souto Moura (2015), Gonçalo Byrne (2016), Nuno Portas (2017) and Álvaro Siza Vieira (2018), recalled an OA statement sent to the Portuguese agency.
The National Day of the Architect “intends to celebrate annually the social function, dignity and prestige of the profession of architect in Portugal”, marking the date of publication of the Statute of the Order of Architects, on July 3, 1998.
The solemn session will take place in the Nuno Teotónio Pereira auditorium, at the national headquarters of the Ordem dos Arquitetos, with the presence, according to the program, of the president of the association, Gonçalo Byrne, and the deputy minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Ana Catarina Mendes. .
According to the National Directorate, through the voice of the president, Gonçalo Byrne, and Jorge Figueira, head of the OA Culture area, the election of Helena Roseta, 74, is due to “to your intense journey“, which left “an indelible mark on permanent participation in civic movements, social causes and political activity”.
The role of Helena Roseta “was determinant in different historical and political contexts“, where “it was always the voice of architecture at a social and urban level, crossing like few others this claim with the demands of an active political life”, having always maintained “a tireless and generous timbre, the premise of tracing the difficult intersection between politics and architecture, assuming her condition as a woman head-on, from the beginning, and thus also making a difference”.
Helena Roseta studied Architecture at the Escola Superior de Belas Artes of the University of Lisbon, and collaborated with the architect Nuno Portas at the National Civil Engineering Laboratory and later in his studio.
He also collaborated, among others, with the architects Maurício de Vasconcelos and Bruno Soares, in the recovery of clandestine neighborhoods, and with Sebastião Formosinho Sanches, in a hospital project.
She was a councilor in Lisbon for the PS (2009-2013), for the Citizens for Lisbon movement (2007-2009) and for the PSD (1976-1978), mayor of Cascais (1983-1986) and president of the Ordem dos Arquitectos ( 2001-2007). ).
She was also a deputy in several legislatures for the PS, PSD and AD, national leader of the PS and PSD, director of the Jornal Novo (1978), student leader and general secretary of the Association of Architects of Portugal, before April 25.
the architect was decorated with the Order of Liberty (2005), with the Medal of Merit of the Council of Europe (1982) and has published the work “Os Dois Lados do Espelho” (2001).
Source: Observadora
