Gon�alo Furtado
Gon�alo M. Furtado C.L. holds a Bachelors
degree in Architecture (Oporto University, Portugal), a Masters
in Architecture (UPC, Spain), and PhD in Theory and History of
Architecture (UCL, England). He has been awarded won prizes such
as the "Floréncio 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 Helsinki (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.
His latest books are Architecture: Machine and Body (2006;
eds. Furtado e Braz) and Generator and Beyond: Encounters of
Cedric Price and John Frazer (2008).
Recent publications include:
- "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: Springer, 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: "Artech 2008: IVth International Conference on
Digital Arts", Porto: Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, 2008,
pp. 191-200.
- Gordon Pask: Exchanges Between Cybernetics and Architecture
and the Envisioning of the "Informational Environment",
in: J.J�zefczyk, 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: A Journal of speculative research
(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.