José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo as Portuguese architect and film director (1897-1948).
José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo was born at Lisbon in 1897. His recorded nationality is Portugal.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect, film director and poet.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Portugal shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
José Ângelo Cottinelli Telmo died in 1948, aged 51. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
