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Title A name given to the resource Porfírio Pardal Monteiro portrait Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actors, Technician, Architect, Porfírio Pardal Monteiro Description An account of the resource Porfírio Pardal Monteiro portrait Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Arquivo Caixa Geral de Depósitos 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 2019-10-08 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Caixa Geral de Depósitos Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Language A language of the resource ENG Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context IA8IMG1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Portugal 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 Architect Person An individual. Birth Date 1897-02-16 Birthplace Sintra Death Date 1957-12-16 Training Institution Escola de Belas-Artes de Lisboa Occupation Architect Teacher Biographical Text Porfirio Pardal Monteiro was born in Pêro Pinheiro, on February 16, 1897. Son of Pedro Manuel Pardal Monteiro and Mariana Gertrudes, his masons ancestors are essential to understand the solidity of his works. Choosing not to follow the family business, leaving it to his brothers, in 1910 he entered the Escola de Belas Artes, in Lisboa. Attending first the general bachelor, he then initiated, in 1912, the bachelor’s in architecture. He was a colleague of Luís Cristino da Silva and Cottinelli Telmo. In the years at Belas Artes he also practiced in the Ventura Terra Atlier, a great influence in his formation. With him, he began to share a rational and functional way of designing. At the end of the bachelor, in 1919, Porfirio Pardal Monteiro continued to work with the modernist architect. In the same year he married Maria Luísa Vasques Kopke Correia Pinto. His early works, in the 1920s, are marked by the architectonic eclecticism distinctly defined in his formation. He projected the buildings of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos agencies, in Lisboa (1921), Setúbal (1924) and Porto (1923-1928), the building no. 49 in República Avenue (1920-1923), the Adventist Temple (1923-1924), the Instituto Superior Técnico (1927-1935), here inaugurating his intervention in Public Works and an important friendship with the Engineer Duarte Pacheco, a house on 5 de Outubro Avenue (1926) and the Cais do Sodré Railway Station (1925-1928),influenced by Arts Decó. Common to these works is undoubtedly the search for modernity, throughout the use of materials such as steel, concrete and glass. In the 1930s, his mark was visible in the Ford Lusitana (1930-1932), the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (1931), the Olivais Seminary (1932), the Church of Nossa Senhora de Fátima (1934-1938), the sea ports of Alcântara and Rocha do Conde de Óbidos (1934-1945) and in the headquarters of the Diário de Notícias journal (1936-1940). These works are the reflection of the modernism that, in Pardal Monteiro, reached the peak in this decade. After an interregnum in the 1940s, Porfirio Pardal Monteiro returned in the 1950s with the projects of the Ritz Hotel (1952-1959), the Cidade Universitária (1952-1967) and the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (1949-1952), inserted in what became known as the International Modern Movement. His last work would be one of the most important, the National Library of Portugal (1964-1969). Outside of architectural scope, Porfirio Pardal Monteiro also accumulated positions in the Superior Council of Public Works, the Superior Council of Fine Arts, the National Board of Education and the National Academy of Fine Arts. He was also President of the National Society of Architects between 1936 and 1944. He has awarded with several prizes, including five Valmor awards, an honorable mention Valmor and a Municipal Prize. He also held a position as a professor in Civil Architecture at Instituto Superior Técnico, where he was later appointed Full Professor in 1944, and at the Lisbon School of Belas Artes in 1933, where he would teach for only two years of his own free will. His professional career was marked by his projective and educational activity, but also by the defence of the Architect role. In 1956 he suffered the first of at least two strokes. Unable to work and plunged into depression, he ended his life on December 16, 1957. Bibliography PACHECO, A. (1997). O espírito clássico de um arquitecto moderno. <em>Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias</em>, Nº687, pp. 24-25. SILVA, F. (2014).<em> Entre o compromisso e a inovação, O percurso de Porfírio Pardal Monteiro</em>. Master Thesis. Faculdade de Arquitetura e Artes da Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. CASTILHO, J. (2010). <em>Os Procuradores da Câmara Corporativa 1935-1974, Porfírio Pardal Monteiro</em> [online] App.parlamento.pt. Available at: http://app.parlamento.pt/PublicacoesOnLine/OsProcuradoresdaCamaraCorporativa/html/pdf/m/monteiro_porfirio_pardal.pdf [Accessed 8 Jul. 2019] 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 Porfírio Pardal Monteiro Profile Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actor, Technician, Architect, Porfírio Pardal Monteiro Description An account of the resource Porfírio Pardal Monteiro Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS 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 2019-07-08 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 IA8DOC1 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1897-1957, Portugal Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa Assembleia da República Item under construction - more information soon