Presenças e projectos de Simões de Carvalho em Portugal, em Angola e no Brasil

The Portuguese architect Fernão Lopes Simões de Carvalho has lived and worked in three continents: Europe, Africa and America. Although born in Angola, in 1929, he went to Lisbon for his secondary school studies and architectural diploma course. His fascination with town planning led him to enroll at the Institut d'Urbanisme of the University of Paris — Sorbonne. In this city, he joined the small number of employees of Le Corbusier, working in his studio and in Worgensky's. He collaborated in the projects of the Unité d'Habitation of Berlin, in the Monastery of La Tourette and Brazil's Pavilion at the Cité Universitaire. After this period, the inhospitable context in Portugal, offering few work opportunities, led him to set out to Luanda, where there was greater freedom for the application of Le Corbusier's ideals. This cycle, which will be the first of his professional life, takes place in the 60's, culminating in the structuring of the public office of urbanization of the Angolan capital. The second cycle takes place in Lisbon, where he also conducts work destined for Angola. The third cycle takes place after the revolution of 1974. From 1975 to 1979, Simões de Carvalho lives and develops his professional life in Brazil, between Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Recife. In the fourth cycle he is back in Portugal, where he projects urban plans settlements and residential and commercial architecture, as well as various public facilities in Lisbon. The article presents the biography and main production of the Portuguese architect and describes his triangular route around the Atlantic.