“Experts in some major themes (...) of cities and their architectures, they have, as one of their authorship`s mark, the taste of dealing with times and inheritances, which they monumentalise as abstract, protected entities admittedly new, and yet, fueled by memorializing reflection: about history, about landscape and vernacular organic forms. In other words, these are, in my opinion, neo-modern architects withdrawing from modernity its ordering bare utopia, and from its death, the conviction that systems, stylistic or aesthetic, are structuring matrix but not the essence of architecture. They invent that essence, one project at a time, meshing light with forms and making them places of life – which is a mental exercise but also way to break design certainties with the uncertainty of design use values.”


Raquel Henriques da Silva in Heterotopias, Architectural Places – CG+LSC obras e projectos 1988-2003 monograph