Mozambique: Normality returning to Ressano Garcia
Jose Alberto Basto Pereira Forjaz
3:52 CAT | 12 August 2016
Jose Alberto Basto Pereira Forjaz { 1936 Coimbra, Portugal- June 25, 2024. Lisbon, Portugal)
The architect Jose Forjaz worked in Sub-Saharian Africa since the early 1960s and after serving as National Director of housing for seven years , was that Country’s Secretary of State for physical planning. He has also designed in Swaziland, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. Forjaz searched to make an architecture that was not merely Eurocentric, but which found reasons for its forms within the local culture.
Education
Diploma in Architecture with distinction
Fine Arts School of Oporto, Portugal 1966
Master of Science in Architecture, Columbia, University, New York, U.S.1968
Professional Membership and Registration
Licensed to practice architecture in Portugal, Mozambique, South Africa.
Member of the South African Council For Architect 1990
Member of the South African Institute of Architect 1969
Member of the Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses 1991
Source: www.joseforjazarquitectos.com
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