The mother art is architecture.
Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Virtual does not mean exclusively what is immaterial, what is potentially present. This is one of the meanings of the Latin word virtus, which also implies a sense of potentiality in the thing in itself.
Generally, we say that something is "virtually" possible when we mean that it is potentially possible. But, beyond that, something that is virtual brings in itself the immanent presence of many possibles, of the unexpected, of the surprise, of discovery.
Infinite no longer in the sense of the far away without end, of the unreachable distant, but yes of what does not end in itself.
This is the essential meaning of virtus, of potentiality.
Today, you can easily reach images of the frontiers of the Universe, virtually walk on Mars, or penetrate deeply into the atomic structure of matter using your small personal computer at home.
In this world, architecture design passed to can also be a scientific research, a work of art, a philosophical reflection, a book, a film, an installation - without ceasing to be architecture.
The role of identifying the various dimensions of the infinity became something characteristic of each one of us, like poetry.
In such shared transdimensional creative work we become aware of the logical structure of thought.
Architecture is time design. When we change the space fabric, we also change who we are.
Design of thought.
Since the beginning, in the early 1980s, I have had these principles as essential to my work. In 1980 I coined the concept of "virtual architecture" - a method to work with synthetic and integral virtual systems on architecture. In that same year, I started the elaboration of the first virtual planet in history, anticipating Second Life in more than twenty years. In 2000 I started working on space architecture.
In the design of thought, what I call "logical traps" has always been present - subversive elements at a logical level that unchains awareness. Only difference produces consciousness. In this way, architecture is transformed into enlightenment, permanent discovery, self-knowledge.
Such an approach leads, since the first moments, to a permanent research on Theory of Thought, on neurology - specially space-time cognition, and also on cyberspace and on logic.
In a clear sequence after Richard Buckminster Fuller and Paolo Soleri among some others, it is a process that generates a new architecture, in dynamic symbiosis producing a new sense of human scale.
One could call this an "experimental architecture" - but, not only it is to be built, as all architecture ought always be experimental, it should always take life as a powerful laboratory to discover the human space-time of the future. Because the future is now: a present in permanent metamorphosis.
As Bucky Fuller said: don't fight forces, use them.
No longer the architecture-shell, the architecture as decoration or illustration, or art as urban handicraft. But yes an architecture-thought, creative, discovery, infinite in itself.

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta
Venezia, 2016

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SPACE ARCHITECTURE


                  
 Emanuel Pimenta develops the space
                  architecture design in partnership with the Fibrenamics, Nanotech
                  Labs, and the Centre of Communication and Society Studies of
                  the University of Minho, Portugal

                  

                    

                      

                        
UIRA - Orbital Olympic
Village 2012 - 2016

                      
                      

                        
PULSAR 
2014

                      
                      

                        
KAIROS
2011

                      
                      

                        
                         
                      
                    
                  

some architectural works
 

                  
Time Design
Museum 2006


                  
Time Design
Museum 2006 (film)


                  
AMORES Floating
Island 2005


                  
AMORES Floating
Island 2005 (film)


                  
Floating Art
Center 2004


                  
Meyer Park
2002


                  
Biennale São Paulo
1999 - 2000


                  
Virtual Architecture
CCB 1997


                  
Science and Technology
Nucleus 1991 - 1993


                  
Woiksed
Virtual Planet 1980


                  
Woiksed
Virtual Planet 1980 (film)


                  
some architectural
design 1980 - 2008


                  
some works
1980-1989 (movie)


                  
some works
1988-1991

emanuel pimenta

The Infinite of Architecture movie

UIRA - Orbital Olympic Village


Biennale di Venezia
GAA Global Art Affairs Foundation
Time | Space | Existence

Palazzo Mora

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Kairos, modular orbital building, 2011, side view