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Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles died. The news was confirmed to the Observer on Wednesday by a source close to the family. The architect was 98 years old and died at his home in Lisbon.
In fact, he will continue to live in Portuguese memory as one of the strongest defenders of our land as habitat and landscape. His name has become, over the decades, without breaking, a kind of instantaneous synonym of persistent concerns about ecological and territorial planning and so precursory that they could form among us a minimum of environmental awareness, which the European framework induced. , as could I, some tracking and recycling habits.
“Master landscaper” -an unusual expression so widely used about him- Ribeiro Telles left a work done in the great art of the garden from a very young age, of which he had “a special gift” in the expression of Viana Barreto, with a large number of works for residences of friends and known clients: Sophia Mello Breyner and Francisco Sousa Tavares, Lisbon, 1962; Robert Gulbenkian, Casa Ararat, Praia do Rei (Almada), 1963; Jaime Azancot, Malveira da Serra, 1964; Jorge de Mello, Ribafría, 1966; João Abel Manta, Caparica and António Melo Campallimaud, Guia, both in 1967; Fernando Távora, Porto and Marquesa de Tancos, Cascais, both from 1968; António Bustorff Silva, 1970; Mário Soares, Nafarros and Rui Machete, São Martinho do Porto, both from 1989 – and even from foreign residents, such as Conrad Andersen 1956, Carl Wicander 1962, Mrs Mattison 1963, Jean Sautier 1964, André Lefévre 1968, Mrs Coopers 1970 …
At a very dynamic time of tourist offer in the Algarve, he dealt with the landscaping of summer resorts and high-end hotels, as well as a spa: Prainha-Alvor 1962, Balaia and Vau 1967 and Monfortinho 1971. Three very innovative projects to live in modern times , Bairro das Estacas, in Lisbon, Nova Oeiras, with Sampaio Fontes (both from 1953), and Alto da Barra, in Oeiras (already since 1970), had their own landscaping and landscaping, in fact, as had already happened in Monte Abraão (Queluz) in 1959, with Fontes, and triumph in 1973 in Aroeira (Almada), with Duarte Sottomayor. During the Marcelist industrialism, this area of work would be extended – well – to the manufacturing facilities (headquarters of CUF 1960, Standard Eléctrica and Citroën 1967, A Tabaqueira 1968, Hoeschst and Kodak 1969, Timex 1970, among others).
