Lisbon Architecture Triennale / Let's talk about Houses: Between North and Soth
14.10.2010 - 16.01.2011
Museu Coleccao Berardo, Praca do Imperio, 1449-003 Lisboa, Portugal
CO-PRODUCTION: LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE | MUSEU COLECCAO BERARDO
The exhibition Let's talk about houses: Between North and South will be presented at the Museu ColecCAo Berardo. Occupying the entire floor of the Grand Hall (3000 m2), it will examine dwelling conditions and the new solutions found in the specific contexts of various regions around the world. With a broad span of commissioners, the exhibition is based around two emblematic experiments (the SAAL project and Alison and Peter Smithson's House of the Future) in order to examine the meaning of the specificity of place, the modernist legacy, and new solutions to the question of dwelling.
Between the utopian dimension of the legacies of 1956 (Smithson's) and 1976 (SAAL) and the contemporary period, diverse architectural practices intersect, complexify, and are constructed and defined. In the different areas of this exhibition, the specific nature of the local problems and solutions that architecture is defining, will be detailed through the presentation of projects and the use of documental images and interviews with architects, theoreticians and residents.
Curators
Ana Vaz Milheiro, Diogo Seixas Lopes, Lu?s Santiago Baptista, James Peto, Manuel Graca Dias, Max Risselada, Pedro Pacheco and Peter Cook.
About Triennale
The Lisbon Architecture Triennale - the most significant architectural event in the Iberian Peninsula - is now in preparation for its second edition. Based on the high quality and development of Portuguese architecture, the Triennale aims to establish itself as an outstanding forum for discussing issues of contemporary architecture, starting from the principle that architectural practice is a fundamental expression of the creation of place, the construction of an integrating sense of citizenship, and cultural affirmation.
The 2010 Triennale
The theme of the 2010 Lisbon Architecture Triennale is LET'S TALK ABOUT HOUSES, a phrase from a poem by the Portuguese poet Herberto Helder. And its inherent urgency is nowadays fully justified.
The idea is to debate the question of housing, both literally and in a broader sense of housing in the world.
For three months the Triennale will be held at Lisbon's most important cultural venues, centring on three exhibitions, one centre in Cascais and an international conference about the relationship between architecture and politics, or how architecture and politics are mutually represented.
A large number of associated projects are spread among various Lisbon art galleries and other cultural institutions, making the city the European capital of architecture, its discussion and celebration.
The Triennale is above all an architecture festival, besides being a platform for debate and discussion about questions involving the social aspect of architecture, its ethical component and the cultural importance of architecture today.
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November 2010
