Ana Tostões honoured in Paris with a prize from the Academy of Architecture

Ana Tostões, architect and teacher, was awarded the Critics and Publications Medal – 1965 Academy of Architecture Prize by the Academy of Architecture on 18 September in Paris.

The Portuguese Section of the International Association of Art Critics (SP/AICA), of which Ana Tostões is president, said in a statement that the award is ‘given to personalities who have contributed to the enrichment of the architectural debate through their writings, publications or achievements’.

According to AICA, the Academy of Architecture (Académie d’Architecture, in the original) is a French scientific society that aims to promote the quality of architecture and spatial planning and their teaching, the improvement of the environment, the publication of opinions on architectural and urban planning issues, the research and conservation of architectural archives and the organisation of conferences and exhibitions.

Ana Tostões is an architect, architecture critic and historian and has been president of SP/AICA since 2021. She is also a full professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon.

She is a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo, the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland, the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, the Higher Technical School of Architecture in Barcelona and the University of Navarre, as well as the University of Porto.

The architect is also the researcher responsible for the projects ‘Curar e Cuidar’, ‘A Monumentalidade Critica de Álvaro Siza’ and ‘Siza Barroco’.

Between 2010 and 2021, she was president of Docomomo International, a foundation that deals with modern architecture in the world. Since 2023, Ana Tostões has been in charge of Docomomo Portugal and is editor of the Docomomo Journal.

Her ideal field of research is the history of modern architecture and urbanism, topics on which she has published books and scientific articles, curated exhibitions, participated in juries, scientific committees and given lectures at European, American and Asian universities.

He published ‘Idade Maior, Cultura e Tecnologia na Arquitetura Moderna Portuguesa’ (Major Age, Culture and Technology in Portuguese Modern Architecture) (Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, 2015), which won the X Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Prize, and edited ‘Arquitetura Moderna em África: Angola e Moçambique’ (Modern Architecture in Africa: Angola and Mozambique), which won the Gulbenkian Prize from the Portuguese Academy of History (2014).

In recent years, he has published the books ‘Cure & Care, architecture and health’ (2020), ‘Lisboa Moderna’ (2021) and ‘A Monumentalidade Crítica de Álvaro Siza’ (2023).