In drawing, design, architecture or urbanism, I am above all interested in the way of transmitting values, insinuating meanings, communicating stories and conditioning habits, always responding to functional questions with unexpected solutions, if possible, obvious and with low resources, easy to build and to be discover how to be used an what it has to say.

        I am Interested in the searching for a language of its own, contemporary, silent, universal and, in the best cases, intuitive.

        It matters to me the creation of contemporary artistic heritage and not just the enhancement and recreation of historical heritage.

        I believe in the importance of local identity and the genuine and unique traditions of each place, but we have a duty to constantly question the dominant culture and introduce updates as cultural agents, a responsibility that we must call upon us and whose professions can leave images, artefacts, changes in habits, landscapes - records of contemporary culture - that will mark what will one day be a historical cultural heritage.

Paulo Paiva Fonseca

ABOUT DESIGN AND HERITAGE

2019

MAY