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Chiado Apartment in Lissabon
von Ahmed Belkhodja,
fala atelier, Porto

www.falaatelier.com

Images and drawings complement and contradict each other.

We can’t work without both: together they create an uneasy

whole, unfolding each project as a series of visual metaphors.

Collages are impressionist expressions, drawings are frozen rhe -

torics. Images have feelings, drawings are rational (unbearable

sometimes in their seriousness). Imprecise and speculative ima -

ges are thus stronger tools than closed, photorealistic represen-

tations. Their uncertainties generate a necessary limbo: they cre -

a te a distance to reality. Collages quote, steal and combine refe -

rences while searching for beauty in a blunt and naive way. Mis -

takes become valuable and fascination arises from the visual

construction, from the manipulation of fragments in a world

den se of references. Intellectual in intention, they are a fragile

and humble portraying exercise, the marriage of architecture’s
rationality with the inconsistent beauties of reality.

fala atelier, Filipe Magalhães, Ana L. Soares & Ahmed Belkhodja

Foto: Fernando Guerra, PT-Lissabon