Gonçalo Furtado
Gonçalo M. Furtado C.L. is graduated in Architecture (Oporto
University, Portugal), Master in Architecture (UPC, Spain), and PhD in
Theory and History of Architecture (UCL, England). He won prizes such
as the “Florêncio de Carvalho Award” (1999), a “Highly Commended-paper”
at the last World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics, and
scholarships from the FCT and the Luso-British Foundation.
Furtado teaches at Oporto University (Master and PhD Program) and at
the master in Industrial Design of FEUP.
He was involved in the organization on many events, exhibitions
and alike; and he acted as reviewer to the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture’s Colloquium in Helsinky (2003) and the
International editorial board of “The Radical Designist” (2006-…).
Furtado gave lectures in Portugal, United Kingdom, United States of
America, Spain, Brazil, Poland, Germany, Colombia, Austria and Mexico.
He is the author of books such as: “Arquitectura: Prótese do Corpo”
(2002; eds. Furtado et alts); “Architecture and Information
Society”,(2002; eds. Furtado and Braz); “Notes on the Space of Digital
Technique” (2002) ; “Marcos Cruz: Unpredictable Flesh (2004); “Off
Fourm: Postglobal City and Marginal Design Discourses” (2004; ed.
Furtado and Hernandez); “Interferencias: Conformação, Implementação e
Futuro da Cultura Digital” (2005); “The Construction of the Critical
Project” (2005); “Architecture: Machine and Body” (2006; eds. Furtado e
Braz); “Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John
Frazer” (Jan.2008) etc.
Recent publications included:
- “Envisioning an Evolving Environment-Encounters of Gordon Pask,
Cedric Price and John Frazer: A Brief Account”, in: Roy Ascott,
Wolfgang Fiel, Gerald Bast, Margarete Jahrmann (eds.), “New Realities.
Being Syncretic, New York-Wien: Springer Wien New York, 2009,
pp.118-122.
- “Gordon Pask (1928-1996): Seminal Experiments on Cybernetic Art and
Design (From a Childhood Curiosity and Mobiles to the I.E.’s
Symbiosis”), in: Álvaro Barbosa (ed.), "Artech 2008: IVth International
Conference on Digital Arts", Porto: Universidade Católica Portuguesa,
2008, pp. 191-200.
- “Gordon Pask: Exchanges Between Cybernetics and Architecture and the
Envisioning of the ‘Informational Environment’”, in: J.Józefczyk,
W.Thomas, M.Turowska (eds.), XIVth International Congress of
Cybernetics and Systems of WOSC: Prodeedings, Poland: Oficyna
Wydawnicza Politechniki Wroclawskiej / World Organization of Systems
and Cybernetics, 2008, p.910-921,
- "Towards an Evolutionary Archiectural Aesthetics (Part A: Today’s
techno-scientific interests and the earlier enabling of the emergent”,
in: Furtado e Póvoas (eds.), “Contemporary Architectural Challenges”,
Oporto: FAUP, 2008, p.15-18.
- "Cedric Price and Gordon Pask: The Japan Net Experiment (1986)", in:
Robert Trapll (ed.), Vienna: Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies,
EMCSR 2008, pp.138-143.
- "Cedric Price's Generator and the Frazers' System Research 1", in:
Technoetic Arts (edited by Roy Ascott), Vol. 6, N.1, March-May
2008.
- “Brief notes on two infinite scales”, in: "Technoetic arts: A Journal
of speculative research", v.5, N.2, Great Britain, 2007, pp.87-96.
