Em Memória de um Mestre
Já há muito que não escrevia para o blog e desta vez resolvi prestar homenagem a um grande mestre de arquitectura português que apesar do carácter único da sua obra o seu pais não o reconhece.... e que há de novo?? (perguntam vocês).... "Este país à beira mar plantado", que mais parece andar a deriva....
Vitor Ruivo Forte, faleceu no passado dia 10 de Julho de 2006 quando caiu de uma das coberturas da sua casa que estava quase terminada.
O seu contributo para a arquitectura portuguesa é para mim, um dos mais enriquecedores dos últimos anos, desenvolvendo um trabalho único e exemplar no campo da arquitectura orgânica.
Reconhecido internacionalmente e um dos melhores alunos de Jacques Gillet, Vitor Forte era para além de um grande professor um excelente companheiro, ultrapassando as barreiras profissionais e desenvolvendo laços de amizade com os seus alunos e colegas.
"To tell you more of Vitor Ruivo Forte, a truly great architect within the Organic Architectural Movement, I refer you to my introduction to the beautiful FOK Journal Vol. 21, issue number #70, 2003 “THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE 0F VITOR RUIVO FORTE” that I was honored to have the opportunity to have included.
I have to tell you again he was one of my three best students and most faithful. He would calI me every Christmas night these past twenty five years. And he came back to Liège to visit Lucienne and me and other friends as often he could. This past January he returned for the Organic Architecture Exhibition organized together by Pieter van der Rees from Utrecht, Holland, and the Lambert Lombard Institute of Architecture. He came again this past May to celebrate his 50th birthday and was at home with us with the latest photos of his splendid house near Lisbon."
I have to tell you again he was one of my three best students and most faithful. He would calI me every Christmas night these past twenty five years. And he came back to Liège to visit Lucienne and me and other friends as often he could. This past January he returned for the Organic Architecture Exhibition organized together by Pieter van der Rees from Utrecht, Holland, and the Lambert Lombard Institute of Architecture. He came again this past May to celebrate his 50th birthday and was at home with us with the latest photos of his splendid house near Lisbon."
Jacques Gillet
Espero que este post sirva para que todos possamos refletir sobre a nossa ideia daquilo que é a arquitectura em Portugal e que possamos dar mais valor aqueles que todos os dias procuram produzir arquitectura original e de boa qualidade.

