Ceci n'est pas un portrait.

This book is the result of an investigation that seeks to embodied the present and possibles futures for a Portuguese architecture.

The works presented here are portraits solely with the photographs of a single photographer, Francisco Ascensão, and with texts by Philip Ursprung, Mark Lee, Stephanie Davidson, Max Kahlen, Claudio Schneider & Michaela Türtscher, Suzuko Yamada, Rory Gardiner, Yushi Sasada, Filipe Magalhães and Ana Luisa Soares, Colby Vexler, Roxane Le Grelle, João Paupério and Maria Rebelo and Giulio Galasso and Natalia Voroshilova.

«Ceci n’est pas un portrait.» displays 333 photographs of 70 works by 40 different authors. The amount of works per author and the amount of photographs per work varies, but the overall presence of all authors and works is balanced, with no hierarchy or index: Ana Catarina Costa, A Forschung, André Oliveira, Atelier da Costa, Atelier Local, Atelier José Andrade Rocha, Barão-Hutter Atelier, Cabinet, Conde Paradela, Corpo Atelier, Cossement Cardoso, Depa, Escritório Pequeno, Estúdio Além, Experimental, Fala, FMVS, Francisco Ascensão, Hélder da Rocha, Hugo Santoalha, José Amorim, José Luís Tavares, José M. Alves Pereira, JQTS, Marta Moreira, Morphopolis, Nuno Melo Sousa, Nuno Reis Pereira, Parto, Patrícia Morais, Patrícia da Silva, Pedro Dionísio, Pedro Miguel Santos, Ponto Atelier, Ricardo Leitão, Rita Araújo, Rita Furtado, Sofia Faria e Maia, Studio Sotnas and Studiolo.

Ana Luisa Soares, Filipe Magalhães, João Paupério et Maria Rebelo, eds.

Circo de Ideias, 2024

30 X 21 cm, 261 pages