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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click on the images bellow to get more information about some architectural works
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

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PULSAR
2014

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KAIROS
2011

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some architectural works
Time Design
Museum 2006

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Time Design
Museum 2006 (film)

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AMORES Floating
Island 2005

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AMORES Floating
Island 2005 (film)

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Floating Art
Center 2004

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Meyer Park
2002

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Biennale São Paulo
1999 - 2000

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Virtual Architecture
CCB 1997

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Science and Technology
Nucleus 1991 - 1993

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Woiksed
Virtual Planet 1980

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Woiksed
Virtual Planet 1980 (film)

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some architectural
design 1980 - 2008

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some works
1980-1989 (movie)

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some works
1988-1991

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emanuel pimenta
The Infinite of Architecture movie
UIRA - Orbital Olympic Village
Biennale di Venezia
GAA Global Art Affairs Foundation
Time | Space | Existence
Palazzo Mora
press
brief bio
location
contact
Kairos, modular orbital building, 2011, side view
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