migrations of modernity: architecture in angola and
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Migrations of Modernity: architecture in Angola and Mozambique (1948-1975) Ana Magalhães. CITAD – Centro de Investigação – Território, Arquitetura e Design /
Universidade Lusíada
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Abstract
Architecture in Angola and Mozambique in the 1950s and 1960s may be
interpreted in terms of the dissemination and reception of the Modernist
architectural models. In the former Portuguese colonies, away from the power of
the country’s capital, many young Portuguese architects, recent graduates from
the University of Lisbon or of Oporto, were practicing a less restrictive mode of
architecture. This paper aims to study the architecture produced in these African
countries in view of the balance required between the territories’ status as
colonies and Modernist architecture, as well as the difference between
construction via public commissions and via private enterprise. Regardless of the
specific circumstances linked to the two territories, the different periods the
constructions took place and the specific interpretations of their authors, the
predominance of the models and theories of Le Corbusier mixed with the
vocabulary and plasticity of modern Brazilian architecture is rather remarkable.
As Dennis Sharp stated, the dissemination of Modernist architecture was not
monolithic nor a mere cloning process. The architects who built in Africa were
allowed to create there an ideal laboratory for experimenting Modernist language,
not just in terms of adopting that formal vocabulary but also as a place to
experiment construction techniques and adapting them to the geography of the
territory and the tropical climate.
Keywords: Architecture in the Modernist Movement; Lusophone African Countries; Colonial,
Tropical; Le Corbusier; Architectural Heritage.
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Fig 1. Angolan National Radio Station (1963-1967), Luanda | Fernão Simões de Carvalho, José Pinto da Cunha, Fernando Alfredo Pereira [Ana Magalhães, 2008]
Presented in the cycle of conferences held at UAL entitled Diáspora, this paper
summarizes the research developed within my PhD thesisi. The study of
architecture in Angola and Mozambique during the 1950s and 1960s is relevant
for this cycle of conferences since the concept of Migration and of Diaspora are
exactly the cross-sectional elements for interpreting this architecture.
The dissemination of architectural models, present throughout the History of
Architecture, increases in the 20th century and in particular after WWII. If, on the
one hand, the geopolitical map defined at that time has led to a new paradigm of
globalization, on the other hand, the doctrine and dogma in terms of architectural
thought and production since the beginning of the Modernist Movement have
allowed for the designing of models more easily disseminated and received.
What occurs in Angola and Mozambique, former Portuguese colonies, after WWII
is exactly the adoption and interpretation of international models. Rather than the
relation with the models of the international Modernist Movement, our study
questions the link between this architecture and the Brazilian Modern
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architecture, as well as the influence of the work and the doctrine of Le Corbusier
(1887-1965), which were widely disseminated.
In 1958, ten years after the National Architecture Congress, an event which
symbolically marked the opening of Portuguese architecture to the models of the
Modernist Movement, José Tinoco (1924-1983), an architect in Mozambique,
wrote that:
“sobretudo a seguir à Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma política salutar tem vindo a ser posta em prática pelos governos dos territórios africanos quer no que respeita o Urbanismo quer mesmo a Arquitectura. Deste modo, já pela mão dos governos, já por iniciativa privada, a verdadeira Arquitectura, expressão viva da época em que vivemos, foi surgindo por toda a África, de Norte a Sul, numa afirmação clara de que deixou de ser considerada artigo de luxo. É a Arquitectura Moderna um combinado técnico – estrutura e função - e arte - forma. Moderna que é, servida portanto por modernas técnicas e formas, lógico seria supor que fosse tacitamente aceite em territórios novos. [...] As províncias portuguesas de África foram, como não podia deixar de ser, atingidas por esse rejuvenescimento geral da arquitectura.”ii
As João José Tinoco acknowledges, the diaspora of young Portuguese
architects, recent graduates from the universities of Lisbon or Oporto who lived
and worked in the colonies in the 1950s and 1960s, allowed for a less restricted
application of modern language. This migration was due to personal reasons
(birth place, family, political reasons or job opportunities) and, in a sense, fostered
by developmental policies of the Portuguese regime, Estado Novo, regarding the
colonies.
The unique constructions were a result of flux and exchange and should be
interpreted as such. In order to understand the architecture of the African
territories we must also emphasize the importance of international training, in
particular the experience at Le Corbusier offices, where Vasco Vieira da Costa
(1911-1982) and Fernão Simões de Carvalho (1929-) did their internships.
Moreover, Fernão Simões de Carvalho studied urban planning in Paris and Paulo
Melo Sampaio (1926-1968) studied urban planning in Milan.
Within the scope of internationalization, focus must be given to Pancho Miranda
Guedes (1925-2015), whose uniqueness derived from having studied in South
Africa and, as a consequence, having developed strong ties with Anglo-Saxon
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culture, from his constant travelling to Europe and to Mozambique’s neighbouring
countries and from participating in international institutional events in the field of
architecture.
Travelling to see in loco architectural work being developed in Europe, in the
United States or in Brazil was not yet common among Portuguese architects,
especially among those living in the African colonies. We must recall that many
architects living in Angola and Mozambique were also public servants, state
officials in local municipalities or school teachers, which allowed them to travel to
continental Portugal free of charge and conduct study or work visits to Europe.
Architects residing in Mozambique often travelled to neighbouring African
countries or participated in conferences on architecture or urban planning or in
international fairs, in particular those held in South Africa, in former Rhodesia and
Malawi, which allowed them to be in contact with other cultures and perspectives,
both from the point of view of architecture and of urban development.
Therefore, architects would usually know of international projects and works
through journals or publications, such as L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, the
international publication most popular among Portuguese architects (most of
whom had French as their first foreign language), or the magazine Arquitetura,
which, after each Conference, would publish important international projects.
From the early 1940s until the end of Estado Novo, different periods may be
identified in the Portuguese colonies in terms of architecture and urban
development. Public contracts and private enterprise are also important factors
to take into consideration.
Modern versus colonial
Two architectural models coexist in colonial society: a monumental or historicist
model, which is mostly present in public work produced in the continent, and a
more modern and international model associated with private enterprise. From
the outside, these models are in opposite sides in terms of ideology. But ideology,
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even the most dogmatic, is contradictory in itself. And the architecture produced
within these ideologies is often contradictory as well.
The Portuguese colonial framework is, latu sensu, defined by soft and unique
ideology of the so-called Portuguese tropicalityiii. However, what often occurs in
this period is a paradox in the development of projects, regardless of their formal
model.
In the case of the plan for the city of Beira, for example, on the original model of
a “Garden-city” advocated by GUUiv, its authors propose a zoning, which
corresponds to “segregating inhabitants according to their habits”v (a
neighbourhood for Europeans, a neighbourhood for Asians and a neighbourhood
for natives), citing the Athens Charter and naming three functions as project
guidelines: “inhabit, work and be entertained”vi. In that city, where good examples
of modern single-family houses were built, urban plots were designed considering
the house staff whose housing, though integrated in the project, was built in a
separate location and with less quality.
Another contradictory project is that of “Cidade Satélite nº 3 (Satellite City n.º 3)
for Luanda”vii by Vasco Vieira da Costa, as it applies in the colonies the modern
model, developed considering the guidelines of the Athens Charter - more
exactly, the principles of urban planning by Le Corbusier, developed since “Ville
Contemporaine” .
“Compete, pois, ao europeu criar no indígena necessidades de conforto e de uma vida mais elevada, impelindo-o assim ao trabalho que o levará a fixar-se, e o que facilitará a mão-de-obra mais estável. A orientação das habitações e a localização dos bairros indígenas são os dois grandes elementos que devem reger a composição do plano de uma cidade colonial. (...) Assim, preferirmos situar os bairros indígenas envolvendo o núcleo central, tendo todo o cuidado de localizá-lo sempre a sotavento das zonas das habitações europeias, que mesmo assim serão sempre isoladas por um ‘écran’ de verdura, suficientemente largo para que o mosquito possa transpô-lo. Como parece ser indispensável, sob o ponto de vista higiénico e social, as populações indígenas formarão vários grupos dispersos, que como pequenos satélites abraçarão o núcleo europeu, ficando assim cada sector deste núcleo servido por um grupo indígena. Deste modo encurtaremos a distância a percorrer entre o local de trabalho e a residência.”viii
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The city is, here as well, organized in a hierarchy considering race and assuming
its colonial character. Vasco Viera da Costa, in his early years as an architect,
between the modern paradigm and the colonial condition, will state that
“absolutamente necessário ser colonial para se poder ser urbanista colonial” (“it
is absolutely necessary to be colonial to be a colonial urban planner”)ix. This was,
without a doubt, the spirit of the time. We must recall that national political
unanimity in regards to the Overseas Territories, and to those opposing Estado
Novo, whose power had been increased after the end of WWII, decolonization
was not a priority issue and it will only gain prominence with the Colonial War.
The case of Bairro do Prenda (1962-1963/1965), in Luanda, by Fernão Simões
de Carvalho and José Pinto da Cunha (1921-2006), is an example of the
opposite. This neighbourhood was designed according to the system of
neighbourhood units, as defined in the city plan for Luanda - Plano Director de
Luanda (1961-1964) - a plan developed by Fernão Simões de Carvalho. Based
on urban plans mixing Corbusian principles and doctrines - from the Athens
Charter to traffic hierarchy by Chandigarh - with social thought by the urban
planner Robert Auzelle (1913-1983), the project of Bairro do Prenda integrated
(single-family and collective) housing and collective equipment, as well as
different social and ethnic groups.
Modern Architecture in Angola and Mozambique: heroic, Corbusian and
tropical
Regardless of the specific circumstances of the two African territories and the
interpretations of the referred authors, a common denominator is visible and the
works developed evidence an identity and a link to the models of the Modernist
Movement. This identity is made manifest in a common formal and spatial
vocabulary. Africa was an ideal laboratory for experimentation for these
architects, allowing them to interpret modernity from a more orthodox or a more
hybrid perspective, allowing them to experiment construction techniques and the
required adaptation to geography and climate. The specificity of this architecture
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allowed for the use of concrete as standard, industrially produced element
(though somewhat rudimentary) as well as an element with dramatic qualities in
regards to plasticity and texture.
Fig 2. Colégio dos Maristas (1959) | F. J. Castro 3. Angolan National Radio Station (1963-1967)
| F. S. Carvalho
The search for artistic expression and spatial qualification, the use of colour,
thoroughly studied and applied in post-war modern projects, as well as the search
for the global in terms of blending art and architecture, a concept closely linked
to Le Corbusier’s ineffable spacex, are predominant themes in African
architecture.
Close collaboration between architects and artists, often resorting to African
imagery, also contributed to the uniqueness of these designs.
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Fig 4. Beira Train Station (1958-1966), Beira | Mural by Jorge Garizo do Carmo (1927-1997) [Ana Magalhães, 2008]
From orthodox modern to hybrid modern
However, despite the common pattern, the work of the several architects
evidences different architectural models and languages. In the case of Angola,
for example, Vieira da Costa and Simões de Carvalho, both disciples of Le
Corbusier, reinterpret their master’s references.
On the other hand, modern Brazilian architecture, inspired by the work of Oscar
Niemeyer (1907-2012) or Affonso Reidy (1909-1964), is evident in the
architecture of the city of Beira, as is the case of the Church of Manga by João
Garizo do Carmo (1917-1974) or of Motel Estoril by Paulo Sampaio.
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Fig 5. Manga Church (1955-1957), Beira | João Garizo do Carmo [Ana Magalhães, 2008]
Many projects which interpret their models from a hybrid, and sometimes, late
perspective, insist on modern principles at a time when there is criticism and new
responses are sought. In the African context, the demand was for a less universal
and a more local response. Or, as João José Tinoca proposed, a mix of “the
regional and the universal”xi and of the “cosmopolitan and the native”xii. The
unconventional architecture by Pancho Guedes goes even further, reinventing
modern and proclaiming the postmodern.
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Fig 6. Building Abreu Santos e Rocha (1953), Maputo | Pancho Miranda Guedes [Ana
Magalhães, 2008]
The role of private commission was crucial in fostering freedom and a catalyst for
the modern. In the case of single-family houses, for example, it allowed for testing
several options of modern vocabulary. Noteworthy are the cases of José Pinto
da Cunha in Luanda and of Paulo Melo Sampaio and João Garizo do Carmo in
the city of Beira. Experimentation is common, both in the spatial structures of
house types as well as in their formal character and in the effective responses to
the climate. Based on Le Corbusier’s “Five Points”xiii, architects search for other
references, such as the plasticity of modern Brazilian architecture (as in the case
of the architects of Beira) or the imaginary of “Californian” houses proposed, for
example, by “Case Study House Program”xiv, in the case of Pinto da Cunha.
The progressive and urban model of the Unité d’habitatión of Marseilles (1945-
1952) allowed for intense typological research in collective housing, as in the
TAP/ Montepio building (1955-1960) in Maputo, by Alberto Soeiro (1917-nd.),
where housing cells are placed around two exterior galleries, or in Lobito, in the
case of the Universal building (1957-1961), in which Francisco Castro Rodrigues
(1920-2015) explores the integration of housing spaces, community spaces and
public spaces.
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Fig 7. Universal Building, Lobito | Francisco Castro Rodrigues (1920-2015) [Ana Magalhães,
2008]
In collective equipment built by privates, mention should be made to buildings for
tourism and leisure. Because they are built for more informal functions, these are
ideal projects to apply modern codes. Hotels, clubs, cinemas or cinema-cafésxv
are important equipment because they foster the settlement of the population and
evidence the idea of prosperity and well-being experienced by the middle-class
in the Portuguese colonies, especially in the period prior to the Colonial War.
They portray society’s want for modernity.
Fig 8 | 9. Cinema Universal, Lobito | Francisco Castro Rodrigues (1920-2015) [Ana Magalhães,
2008]
On the one hand, private enterprise was a catalyst for the modern project, on the
other, commissions by local entities, the Church or the municipalities, the more
traditional and historicist character of public institutions was gradually replaced
by an openness towards the use of modern languages. In line with new
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monumentalityxvi advocated by modern post-war architects, public work aims for
a new relation with the city and acquires a more symbolic and human meaning.
Fig 10. Beira Central Station (1958-1966), Beira | João Garizo do Carmo, Paulo Melo Sampaio,
Francisco Castro [Ana Magalhães, 2008]
Modern heritage in Africa: memory, identity and future
Today, in a post-colonial context, the study of architecture produced in Angola
and Mozambique poses relevant questions. Besides the listing and specific
analysis of the works and their authors, it is crucial to consider the value and
location of this heritage within the History of Architecture. Firstly, we must
emphasize the idea that they integrate the post WWII Modernist Movement.
Despite the ideological contradictions, between the assumptions of democracy
and the colonial condition, there is no doubt that these works evidence the
aesthetic and building values of architecture of the Modernist Movement.
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Fig 11. Kinaxixe Market (1951-52), Luanda| Vasco Vieira da Costa (1911-1982) [ Ana
Magalhães, 2008]
The controversy around the demolition of Kinaxixe Marketxvii, in downtown
Luanda, in 2008, emphasized the need for a debate on the value and identity of
modern heritage built in the former Portuguese colonies. Forty years after the
independence of Angola and Mozambique, the issues of identity and heritage are
still sensitive. More than the difficulty in dealing with this modern heritage, we are
faced with the History of these countries in a process of change: from
decolonization to civil war, from nationalistic ideas of independence to the search
for a new path and a new identity. Only a deeper knowledge of the cultural and
scientific value of this heritage will allow for overcoming other priorities, be it
political, social or economic ones.
The uniqueness of the studied authors should be emphasized, since this is crucial
for the understanding of 20thc Portuguese architecture. Despite the
contemporary nature of the works and their common denominators, diverse
approach to the design process, their more or less theoretical background or
maturity evidence the quality of this generation of architects in Portuguese
diaspora.
Notes
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i Magalhães, Ana (2015) – Migrações do Moderno: arquitetura na diáspora – Angola e
Moçambique (1948-1975). Tese de Doutoramento em Arquitetura. Faculdade de Arquitetura e
Artes da Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa. ii Tinoco, João José (2003) – Da Arquitetura Moderna em África e o seu panorama em Lourenço
Marques [September 1958, journal Capricórnio nº2]. In Tomás, Vítor (coord.) (2003) – A
Arquitetura de João José Tinoco. Maputo: Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, p. 6-9.
iii The term “luso-tropicalism” (Portuguese tropicality) was first used by the Brazilian
sociologist Gilberto Freyre (see FREYRE, Gilberto (1957) – Casa Grande e Sanzala. Lisboa: Livros do Brasil and FREYRE, Gilberto (1958) – Integração Portuguesa nos Trópicos.
Lisboa: Junta de Investigação do Ultramar). As Rui Ramos explained, “o Governo sentiu-se
autorizado a definir Portugal como uma nação intercontinental e multirracial, assente na original
capacidade para a miscigenação que o sociólogo brasileiro Gilberto Freyre, teórico do “luso-
tropicalismo” atribuía aos portugueses” (Ramos, Rui (coord.); Vasconcelos e Sousa, Bernardo;
Monteiro, Nuno Gonçalo (2010) – História de Portugal. 3rd ed. Lisboa: Esfera dos Livros, p.682). iv Gabinete de Urbanização do Ultramar - Office for the Urban Planning of the Overseas
Territories (name given after constitucional amendment of 1951, replacing GUC – Gabinete de
Urbanização Colonial - created in 1944) v Beira, City Hall (1951) – Beira City – draft of Urban Plan – explanatory statement. Beira:
Empresa Moderna, p. 95. vi Idem, p. 11.
COSTA, Vasco Vieira da – Luanda – Cidade Satélite nº 3. Concurso para a obtenção do Diploma
de Arquiteto (1948). Porto: Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto, Departamento de
Arquitetura da Faculdade de Engenharia de Luanda. viii Revista de Arquitetura (1987). Fernando Távora, dir. (1987). Porto: Faculdade de Arquitetura
da Universidade do Porto, p. 24. ix Costa, Vasco Vieira da (1984) – Luanda – Cidade Satélite nº 3. Concurso para a obtenção do
Diploma de Arquiteto (1948). Porto: Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto, Departamento de
Arquitetura da Faculdade de Engenharia de Luanda, p. 13. x Le Corbusier (1946) – L’ Espace Indicible. L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. nº spécial Art.
Boulogne. (January), p. 9-17. xi Tinoco, João José (2003) – Da Arquitetura Moderna em África e o seu panorama em Lourenço
Marques [September 1958, journal Capricórnio nº2]. In Tomás, Vítor (coord.) (2003) – A
Arquitetura de João José Tinoco. Maputo: Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, p. 6-9. xii Idem xiii Published in Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Zwei Wohnhauser, durch Alfred Roth, Akadem
Verlag Dr. Fr. Wedekind and Co., Stuttgart, 1927 and in the journal L’Architecture Vivante (nº 17,
1927) xiv See Smith, Elisabeth A.T. (2009) – Case Stdy Houses – The Complete CSH Program, 1945-
1966. Taschen. xv See Magalhães, Ana (2009) – Moderno Tropical. Arquitectura em Angola e Moçambique -
1948-1975. Lisboa: Edições Tinta-da-china and Magalhães, Ana (2010) – Modern Architecture
in África: open-air movie theathers. In DOCOMOMO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 11,
Mexico City, 2010 – Living Urban Modernity. Mexico City (August 2010). p.36. xvi see KAHN, Louis I., Monumentality. In OCKMAN, Joan, coord. - Architecture Culture 1943-
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SERT, J.L.; LÉGER, F.; GIEDION, S. (1993) - Nine Points on Monumentality. [1943]. In
OCKMAN, Joan, coord. - Architecture Culture 1943- 1968 - A Documentary Anthology. New York:
Rizzoli: Columbia Books of Architecture. xvii Kinaxixe Market was designed by Vasco Vieira da Costa in 1951-1952.
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To cite this paper: MAGALHÃES, Ana – Migrações do moderno: arquitetura em Angola e
Moçambique (1948-1975). Estudo Prévio 9. Lisboa: CEACT/UAL - Centro de Estudos de
Arquitetura, Cidade e Território da Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, 2016. ISSN: 2182-4339
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Ana Magalhães. President docomomo International and Full Professor at IST
Bachelor Degree in Architecture by FA-UTL in 1988, Master Degree in Theory of Architecture in
2001 by Universidade Lusíada, with a Master Dissertation on Modernity and 20thc Portuguese
Architecture entitled: “Intemporalidade, Continuidade e Presença dos Valores do Movimento
Moderno- O Hotel Ritz no Contexto da Arquitectura Portuguesa do Século XX” and PhD in
Architecture in 2015 with a thesis on “Migrações do Moderno. Arquitectura na Diáspora – Angola
e Moçambique (1948-1975)”. She is auxiliary professor in the field of Project at Universidade
Lusíada de Lisboa, where she has been a lecturer since 1990. She co-authored the book
“Moderno Tropical - Arquitectura em Angola e Moçambique, 1948-1975” published by Tinta-da-
china Publishers in 2009, which was awarded the DAM Architectural Book Award 2010 in the
field of History of Architecture. Ana Magalhães has published several papers on 20thc
Portuguese architecture. A partner of Atelier do Convento – Arquitectos since 1989, she has
designed several projects, especially refurbishing, housing and interior design.