Opening in the 31st May, the 1st edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale will have as theme "Urban Voids", focusing on rarefaction or urban rupture phenomena, generated by processes of decay and physical and social degradation in city areas.
For 62 days, four different poles in Lisbon will receive 11 major exhibitions with proposals from 14 different nationalities. In this initiative by the Portuguese Architects Guild South Region Section, where some of the most relevant authors and thinkers of today's world will interact, Portuguese Architecture will be pretext for an important global forum dedicated to the reflection, debate, prospecting and display of Architecture, from the building to the city and territory planning.
The Lisbon Triennale's head office will be the Portugal Pavillion, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira, but a set of other will cross borders with the visual arts, music, cinema and other fields that have strong connections with architecture.
The International Architecture Conference The Heart of the City will be the main opening event of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, joining, from 31st May to 2nd Juin, over 40 international guests involved in the reflection of the contemporary city as practicing architects, urban planners, artists, architecture critics, philosophers and historians.
Paying homage to the CIAM 8 motto "The Heart of the City", held in Hoddesdon in 1951, the theme of the conference aims to provoke a debate on the undergoing mutations in the definition of the contemporary city.
Zaha Hadid, Pritzker Award winner 2004, Mark Wigley, director of the University of Columbia in New York, Kurt Foster, director of the Architecture Biennal of Venice in 2004, the Portuguese Eduardo Souto de Moura and João Luís Carrilho da Graça, the spanish Mansilla and Tuñón and North-American Diller & Scofidio + Renfo, are some of the participants.
Main Exhibitions
Portugal Exhibition
Named "Europe, Portuguese Architecture in Emission", the exhibition builds a narrative in which Portuguese architecture appears as an object reflecting and translating an idea of Europe.
Countries Exhibition
Germany, Canada, Chile, China, Slovenia, Spain, France, Netherlands, Ireland, Japan, Mexico and Mozambique exhibit their proposals within the theme of the Triennale.
Landscape | Places and Transitoriness : space, thinking, re-action
It will bring together ideas in relation to both the 'urban void' and that derived from cross-disciplinary criticism. It aims at discussing the urban and the void interpreted as contingency and emergency spaces and phenomena that often become a working reality.
Universities Exhibition
It is an exercise of academic reflection on the theme “Places about to happen”, resulting from a proposal launched by the Triennale to the Portuguese architecture courses. The suggested object for study is the metropolitan area of Great Lisbon with its central core - the Tagus estuary and its margins.
Invited Architects Exhibition
A set of monographic exhibitions under the theme "Born in the 50's", that features Zaha Hadid, Diller&Scofidio+Renfro, Mansilla+Tuñón, João Luís Carrilho da Graça e Eduardo Souto de Moura.
AMP/AML XXI Exhibition
This exhibition shows works and projects that the Municipalities and territory managing Entities are currently developing for the urban voids in the Metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Oporto.
Promoters Exhibition
This exhibition is a reflection on the act of the conception of buildings, products and objects, in a territory scale.
"The Explosion of the City" Exhibition
Inventory of territorial transformations that took place in 13 european urban areas.
Siza Vieira Monographic Exhibition
A large exhibition about Siza Vieira's work that includes films, drawings and photographs and will allow outlining the log-book of the work method of the Portuguese Pritzker Prize.
Cascais XXI Exhibition
The exhibition Cascais XXI consists of a selection of 50 projects and works, public and private, produced in this century in the Cascais district.