On Mach 28th, 2025, 1-2 PM UTC, we will host a special session titled Architecture Follows Fish that is set in the North Atlantic, and its protagonist is fish. In this webinar, the book author and architect André Tavares presents the eponymous book and explores the notion of fishing architecture, a concept coined to describe architectural practices that are spawned by fisheries. To encompass the scope of fishing architecture, and to establish the connections between marine ecology and architectural practice, the focus oscillates between different continents, centuries, and species. Up until now there has been no history of architecture from the perspective of fish, although there are counterparts for meat, timber, oil, and many other industries. André Tavares provides a counternarrative to the traditional history of marine environments, which tends to focus on water ecosystems, and instead forms a bridge between what happens at sea and what happens on land.
Program ( PM/UTC)
- 01:00-01:05 – introduction – Catarina Paes Duarte, AIR Centre
- 01:05 -01:10 – Welcome by the Moderator José Luiz Moutinho, OceanQuest
- 01:10-01:45 – Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic, Ar.André Tavares, Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto
- 01:45-02:00 – Q&A
More information, including speaker profile can be found here.
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