Arquitectura Viva 281: Foster+Partners

At ninety years of age, Norman Foster still steers his firm at the speed of a cruise liner, without letting its corporate structure blur the signature stamp that makes any of his works unmistakable, however disparate their locations, scales, or programs. Now joining this big family of forms and spaces are a skyscraper in Manhattan and the Zayed National Museum in Abu Dhabi: two icons which materialize the British architect’s grand ambitions. This issue’s dossier looks at the work of ten young Portuguese practices that verify a change of attitude in the country’s solid tradition, as the members of fala explain in the introductory text. Featured are REDO architects, MESA atelier, Corpo Atelier, Summary, EXPERIMENTAL, Atelier Local, depA architects, Nuno Melo Sousa, ATELIERDACOSTA, and Cabinet.