The designation of the information collection produced and received by various members of the family is based on the family names Meneses Tavares and Távora, with which Fernando Távora is affiliated. The family name derives from the last names of the first generation represented in the archive, Maria José Lobo de Sousa Machado Cardoso de Meneses and José Ferrão de Tavares e Távora, who got married in 1912 and had a son, Fernando Luís Cardoso de Meneses de Tavares e Távora. He, with Maria Luísa Meneses, forms the second generation represented in the archive.
The designation of the collection of information produced and received by various members of the Marques da Silva/Moreira da Silva families is based on both family names.
José Marques da Silva, a central figure of the Marques da Silva family, and producer of relevant professional information, married a member of the Lopes Martins family and lived in one of the latter's houses, gentlemen with a confirmed presence in Brazil. The money brought from Brazil by the family was invested in the purchase of properties and of movable and immovable property. All the information produced by his wife, Júlia Lopes Martins, and her family, is incorporated in this collection.
He had two daughters with Júlia Lopes Martins. The younger one, Maria José Marques da Silva Martins, married David Moreira da Silva. Through that marriage, all the information about the Moreira da Silva family is also included in the “parent” family.
The classification of this family collection is thus based on these three family branches.
José Carlos Loureiro has been practising architecture since 1947, when he established his first office, without legal formalities and using his own name. The office was in Porto, at Praça Filipe de Lencastre, number 22, 6th floor, room 102.
In the 1960s he moved to a new office in the Lima/Luso Buildings. In 1972 he committed himself to architecture. In 1976, in partnership with the architect Luís Pádua Ramos, with whom he had been collaborating since 1955, he established GALP - Gabinete de Urbanismo, Arquitectura e Engenharia, Lda., (commercial enterprise) but he kept working in his office. In 1982, his son José Manuel Loureiro, also an architect, joined the partnership.
Among the architects José Carlos Loureiro worked with in his office were Alcino Soutinho, Anni Gunther, Carlos Chaves de Almeida, José Gomes Fernandes, Luís Cunha, Manuel Correia Fernandes, Maria Noémia Coutinho, Noé Dinis (trainee), Pádua Ramos and Rogério Cavaca (trainee).
João Marcelino Queiroz established his architecture atelier in the 1920s, without legal formalities, under the name João Queiroz, Arquitecto, in a rationalist building on Rua de Santa Catarina, Porto.
During his career he worked on his own; he designed all the parts of his projects himself, even when the demand from his clients increased in the 1940s.
He designed some iconic buildings, mainly in the city of Porto, including: Cine Teatro Olímpia, Trindade Cinema, Café Magestic and created a design for Batalha Cinema (not built). In addition, João Queiroz also designed new, single-family and multi-family houses; interventions for public and private buildings, and was responsible for alterations, extensions, repair works, renovations, and constructing showrooms. He also carried out projects in the area of funerary architecture.
Júlia Emília Lopes Martins, também conhecida por Júlia Emília Lopes Martins Marques da Silva, apelido adquirido depois do casamento.
Nasceu em Vila da Feira, Sanguedo em 1874, filha de Manuel Júlio Lopes Martins e de Júlia Emília Paiva Martins, a mais velha de 8 irmãos.
Em 14 de Setembro de 1901 casa com José Marques da Silva com que teve duas filhas Amélia Lopes Martins Marques da Silva e Maria José Marques da Silva Martins.
Faleceu em 1973.
Emília Lopes Martins nasceu em 1862 e faleceu em 1885.
Maria José Marques da Silva Martins, também conhecida por Maria José Marques da Silva, nasceu no dia 7 de setembro de 1914, na Praça Marquês de Pombal nº 44, freguesia do Bonfim, no Porto.
Em 1933, matriculou-se na Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto, onde concluiu o respetivo Curso Especial no ano letivo de 1937/38 e o Curso Superior de Arquitetura em 5 de Novembro de 1938. Fez tirocínio, dirigindo “in loco”, em 1939/43, todos os trabalhos de construção do seu prédio de rendimento sito às ruas de D. António Barroso e Barjona de Freitas, na cidade de Barcelos, cujo projeto elaborou orientada por seu pai, em Julho de 1939.
Em Julho de 1943, após defesa da respetiva tese na Escola Superior de Belas Artes do Porto, obteve o diploma de arquitetura com a classificação de 18 valores (distinta), sendo a primeira arquiteta a diplomar-se naquela escola.
Inicia a sua atividade profissional no atelier de seu pai e é ai que conhece David Moreira da Silva, arquiteto e urbanista, com que veio a casar em 1943.
Maria José e David Moreira da Silva partilharam o atelier (1941-1994) e efetuaram trabalhos de consultadoria, projetos de obras, equipamentos, edifícios mistos, habitações (rurais e urbanas), peças de mobiliário, continuaram e concluíram obras iniciadas por José Marques da Silva.
Nas décadas de 70 e 80, o casal afastou-se do urbanismo e dedicou-se essencialmente à produção agrícola das suas propriedades em Barcelos. No entanto, ainda nessa época, Maria José Marques da Silva Martins desempenhou cargos de chefia na Associação dos Arquitectos Portugueses, tendo presidido à Secção Regional do Norte da Associação dos Arquitectos e organizado o 40.º Congresso desta organização, realizado no Palácio da Bolsa, em 1986.
Faleceu na freguesia da Vitória, Porto, no dia 13 de Maio de 1994.