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Birth Date 1922 Death Date 2002 Training Institution Escola de Belas Artes de Lisboa (ESBAL) Occupation Architect Biographical Text Cândido Palma de Melo was born in 1922. He was an important Portuguese architect, whose work is affirmed in the framework of the third generation of national modernism. He was the father of three daughters, the two youngest with cerebral palsy. After studying at Casa Pia in Lisbon, he graduated in architecture at the Escola de Belas Artes of Lisbon in 1947. He then attended the First National Congress of Architecture in 1948, presenting a communication on the teaching of architecture in Portugal, along with his colleague Conceição Silva. In the professional field, he began to collaborate in the Keil do Amaral studio between 1945 and 1951. However, in 1955 he decided to set up a studio of his own with Artur Pires Martins. During his career the presence of foreign influences such as Le Corbusier are evident. A convinced modernist, he contributed to the “Regulamento Geral das Edificações Urbanas” (RGEU), creating the guidelines that served the current decree of Law 163/06. In the 1950s, he was invited by the Lisbon City Council's Urbanization Studies Office, together with Nuno Teotóneo Pereira, Sommer Ribeiro and Pedro Falcão e Cunha, to give architectural meaning to a whole new field of experimentation. Then arose the constructions of the North and South Olivais, in Lisbon, thus applying in Portugal the Corbusian spirit of the Athens Charter. However, his portfolio is quite extensive and his areas of intervention are not restricted to Portugal. He designed the Lourenço Marques Airport in Mozambique between 1953 and 1963, the Pina Manique Stadium in 1954, the Bonfim Stadium in 1962, the Calouste Gulbenkian Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Center in 1965, the Beira Aerogare in Mozambique, the Sal Aerogare in Cape Verde, and Mormagão Aerogare in India between 1963 and 1968, the Varandas da Rocha Tourist Complex in Portimão, between 1981 and 2001, the Yellow and the Manchester Building in Lisbon, between 1977 and 1984, the "Sulfrias" Tourist Complex in Vila Real de Santo António, in 1990, and the Casapiana Solidarity Association Complex in Lisbon, in 1999. Palma de Melo was the author of the Calouste Gulbenkian Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Center (CRPCCG) project, inaugurated in 1970. He was chairman of the former Portuguese Cerebral Palsy Association from 1980 to 1996 and played a major role in the decentralization process of this association. He designed more Rehabilitation Centers and guided some installation adaptations of the Centers elsewhere. He designed homes adapted for people with disabilities in Porto and Lisbon and created a set of furniture that expressed his concern about social inclusion issues, designed to be used interchangeably by people with or without disabilities. Many of this highly functional furniture is still used today in CRPCCG. His career as an architect allowed him to make friends with outstanding figures in the Arts, Culture, Sciences and Politics such as Bento de Jesus Caraça, Manuel Mendes, Keil do Amaral, Teotónio Pereira, Abel Manta, Rafael Botelho, Lopes Graça, José Gomes Ferreira, Cardoso Pires, Pires Martins, Jorge Chaves, Gandra, Martins Correia, Gil Teixeira Lopes, Matilde Marçal, Maria da Graça Andrada, Natália Correia, among many others. A pioneer in the fight against architectural barriers, as is already clear, in the early 1990s Palma de Melo received the Helios Award, given by the European Commission for his work on accessibility. He was also named Honorary Member of the Association of Portuguese Architects in 1994. Cândido Palma de Melo died in 2002 at the age of 80. Bibliography "Biografia". In Arte com H, [online]. Available at: http://artecomh.pt/palma_de_melo [Accessed 08 Nov. 2019]. Biography Available Soon Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Cândido Palma de Melo Profile Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actor, Technician, Architect, Cândido Palma de Melo Description An account of the resource Cândido Palma de Melo Profile Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Arte com H Website Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available PT BUILDS Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2019-11-08 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource PT BUILDS Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource TEXT Language A language of the resource ENG Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context IA59DOC1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1922-2002, Portugal Item under construction - more information soon