News & Interviews
At BETAR, not only we value sharing our news, but particularly value the act of listening and learning from the experts with whom we collaborate and come across in our day-to-day activities: that's why our interviews were born.
A conversation with Arch. Luís Cabral
‘Architecture that designs buildings can enclosure an environment without external factors, with lighting and air conditioning. Outside, you need to deeply understand the signs of the landscape. ' Read more
A conversation with Arch. José Barra
'Architecture is in a state of schizophrenia. One day it is euphoric for the two Pritzker prizes and the next day depressed because it realizes that has to emigrate to survive. ’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. Alexandre Marques Pereira
‘As the world gets richer, so does our work. The language must be contemporary and the references adapted without complexes. ’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. Jorge Silva
‘I attribute to architecture the role of social intervention and public responsibility, it is not just an act between architect and owner, it has to respond to the city’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. Carlos Tojal and Arch. Miguel Passos
'Everything we do is discussed. This is fundamentally a team effort where everyone adds' Read more
A conversation with Arch. Paulo David
‘It can be more exciting to build a home for a friend in my village, than to build a tower on 5th Avenue in New York for unknown users’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. José Forjaz
'I am an internationalist. Only like that we can be consistent with a society that we want closely integrated. I feel like an architect. I think our homeland is where we work. ’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. Tomás Rebelo de Andrade and Arch. Jorge Garcia Simões
'The word complicate is not part of our lexicon because we want what we do to be discernible and to be read’ Read more
A conversation with Arch. João Luís Ferreira
‘Architecture is the victory of space over time. (...) It is the opposite of fashion. (...) It is what is not a passenger. (...) Architecture is the mirror of society’. Read more
