The ‘I Love Távora’ party marks the culmination of the ‘Távora 100’ programme, which celebrated the centenary of the birth of the architect Fernando Távora (1923-2005), a figure inseparable from the ‘Escola do Porto’ and Portuguese architecture. It also marks the opening of the 2024.2025 academic year of the architecture schools. It aims to be a moment of fun, celebration, sharing and bringing together the students and teachers of the various schools; in particular the three marked in their genesis, in different ways, by the teachings of Fernando Távora - the FAUP (1979), the DARQ of the University of Coimbra (1988) and the EAAD of the University of Minho (1996). It also aims to be a meeting place for schools, the architectural community and citizens in general.

Programme

16h00
Welcoming the first-year students from the Schools of Architecture Guided tours reserved for students

18.30
Official opening with the various institutions involved

19:00
Party with DJ sets* and street food

Free entry

This Festival evokes and takes up the name and place of the Festival organised in 2006 by the Northern Regional Section of the Order of Architects with the support of Matosinhos City Council as part of the ‘I Love Távora’ programme. The name was chosen because the architect Fernando Távora, known for his sense of humour, one day, around 1981(?), at the end of a conference, distributed T-shirts with this inscription to the audience. At the party in 2006, 45 copies of the original T-shirts were raffled off, Fernando Távora's number as a Member of the Order of Architects.

Organising committee
Order of Architects (OA), Marques da Silva Foundation (FIMS), Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), Department of Architecture of the University of Coimbra (DARQ) and School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (EAAD)

Party production support
Matosinhos City Council, Casa da Arquitetura*

Music organisation
AEFAUP FAUP Students' Association in collaboration with theNADA Núcleo de Alunos de Arquitetura, Design e Artes da Universidade do Minho and theNUDANúcleo de Estudantes de Arquitetura do Departamento de Arquitetura da Universidade de Coimbra.

Institutional support Távora 100
Assembly of the Republic, Porto City Council, Aveiro City Council, Coimbra City Council, Esposende City Council, Guimarães City Council, Matosinhos City Council, Viana do Castelo City Council, Vila Nova de Gaia City Council, Northern Regional Coordination and Development Commission, Northern Regional Directorate of Culture, Soares dos Reis National Museum and Tourism of Porto and Northern Portugal.

Sponsors
BPI/La Caixa Foundation

Supports
DST Group, CIN and Efapel

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