2G: Fala Atelier (Porto): Issue #80

by Moisés Puente (Editor)

Fala Atelier’s pragmatic, minimal architectural works with pops of color and whimsy Architectural works by Fala―a Porto-based architectural studio founded in 2013―are documented here in issue 80 of 2G . Fala’s architectural style developed in the aftermath of the economic crisis in 2008, when downtown Porto and Lisbon underwent a boom in tourism and massive redevelopment.

158 pages, Paperback

Published April 14, 2020

Reviews

[Francisco · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found it to be lacking content and purpose to the elements selected for this edition. This issue begins in a bad way for me since I truly detest the self pity tone of the introductory text. The remaining text is also bland and generic, while the plans are presented in the office's own style, alas, this means they're merely illustrative and not always useful. This was the second 2G that has disappointed me in recent years, although this one is not as bad as #78.

[Erik Orefelt · Rating 4 out of 5]

The architecture of fala is playful and in many ways purely cosmetic. Their projects are in a sense the result of the emerging speculation driven real estate market in Portugal, where developers often renovate existing structures to sell to in beforehand unknown buyers. Fala does however take these conditions to their own advantage, making an architecture with its own language, emancipated from the reigning Porto-school.