In 1920, Fernando Pessoa moved with his family to the 1st right number 16 of Rua Coelho da Rocha, in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon. This was his 18th address and lived here until days before his death on November 30, 1935. This and the other apartments of the building had different occupations in the years that followed.
The reopening of the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, closed since 1999, was considered “the best tribute” to the artist, in the year in which the centenary of his death is celebrated, by the councilwoman of the culture of the City Council of Lisbon, Maria Manuel Pinto Barbosa, in the visit he made to the space with journalists.
Building of the early XX century, situated in an urban environment that still retains features of a small nucleus. Changing the kind of use of the, severely degraded, building from private housing to House -Museum/Cultural Centre, induced and determined structural and volumetric changes of the existing space.
On December 18, 2017, the work of Recovery and Valorization of teatro Romano, one of the nuclei of the Lisbon Museum, received an Honorable Mention of the Valmor Prize 2014, awarded by the Lisbon City Council. The project is authored by architects Daniela Hermano and João Carrasco.
A few days ago I participated with Daniela Ermano in the conversation of Mouraria colloquium organized by grupo Amigos de Lisboa. We had asked us to make an intervention on the project we both made to Martim Moniz Square. I decided to read the text – reproduced below – which I had written for the World Congress of the International Federation for Housing, Urbanism and Spatial Planning in 1998.