Monumento a Azeredo Perdigão - Lisbon, Portugal
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Monument to the 1st president of the Gulbenkian Foundation located in the gardens of the Foundation.
Waymark Code: WMD1RH
Location: Lisboa, Portugal
Date Posted: 11/07/2011
Views: 9
Building opened in three levels of square plan, with pillars at each corner. The first level rises on the ground and it appears a vertical plane, between the floor and the roof leaked in a horizontal rectangle, in allusion to a window. On the ceiling of this plan there is a hollow cube that spans to the next level, which is also another plan leaked a vertical rectangle, evoking a door. At this level are born two flights of stairs that project to the top floor where there is a wall extending from one side of the building.
This is the monument to the 1st president of the Gulbenkian Foundation, José de Azeredo Perdigão (1896-1996).
In the artist´s words:
"For an idea in permanent construction the idea of a house in construction for ever." (from the descriptive memory of the monument-Lisbon 14 November 1996
Text adapted from Lisbon Patrimony and monument plaque.
Title: Monumento a Azeredo Perdigão
Artist: Pedro Cabrita Reis
Media (materials) used: Metal and Concrete
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): Garden of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Date of creation or placement: 1996
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