Abstract

BENTO D’ALMEIDA, Patrícia  and  MARAT-MENDES, Teresa. The Fine Arts Service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the attribution of scholarships to architects (1960-2000). CIDADES [online]. 2023, n.46, pp.131-172.  Epub June 30, 2023. ISSN 2182-3030.  https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.27213.

The Fine Arts Service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (SBA-FCG) was created in 1960 with the objective of providing financial support to all of those who, lacking financial resources, wanted to develop a program of studies inherent to practice, research or artistic improvement, in the country or abroad. Research in 'Architecture and Urbanism' emerged in 1961 at the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) and was one of the main research areas covered by the applications for “Grants for Specialization and Professional Development in Arts” awarded by the SBA-FCG. This study exposes the results of a survey conducted to the grants provided by SBA-FCG to architects, for the period between 1960-2000, and it verifies whom among those financed were architects that also conducted research at LNEC. We analyze here the applications of the architects Francisco Silva Dias, Mário Krüger and José Manuel Pinto Duarte, three different generations of architect-researchers. The research programs developed by these three architects under FCG funding are here analyzed and confronted with the research themes developed at LNEC. Thus, based on material available at the archives and library of the FCG and LNEC, this article updates the state of the art about research in architecture and urbanism developed and experimented in Portugal. Finally, it concludes, that the financial support granted by the SBA-FCG was most important to the acquisition and improvement of research techniques developed internationally and their consequent application and dissemination in Portugal, namely at LNEC.

Keywords : Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; research; architecture; Portuguese National Laboratory of Civil Engineering.

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