Floating Images
edited by André Tavares and Pedro Bandeira
“Photographs, newspaper cuttings, postcards, drawings, and slides: on entering the studio of Eduardo Souto de Moura, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2011, one is confronted with a variety of images on the walls that engage in a dialogue. How do these photos, drawings, and illustrations impact his design practice? What is the relationship between the image and the completed building? Floating Images: Eduardo Souto de Moura’s Wall Atlas uses this question as an opportunity to examine the architect’s visual universe. He has added images from his extensive collection of drawings and project sketches and reorganized them in this atlas. Complex relationships are formed between the individual illustrations and projects. Essays by Pedro Bandeira, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Diogo Seixas Lopes, and Philip Ursprung round off the publication and provide a contextualization in terms of the history of art and images.”
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What we like about it:
I read this book in preparation for a summer school in which Souto de Moura was supposed to lecture, but unfortunately had to cancel due to illness.
I wanted to find out more about his way of working and found the book very inspiring, as I like the way he approaches projects. The book is less about the projects themselves and more about his way of working, which I really enjoyed, as I often find a look behind the scenes and into the processes more exciting than the end product. It's interesting to see his influences from other areas and how everything comes together in a collage-like way on his walls and in this wall atlas.