The next Architecture Triennale of Lisbon returns to the way to think about the world – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

At the end of the day, it’s always the way that returns the architect, no matter how intense that have been discussions around other issues and situations, in the studio or on the construction site. The shape is the synthesis, the main indicator, visible and tangible, architecture. André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes, architects and theorists, are the chief stewards of the next Architecture Triennale of Lisbon, which takes place from 6 October to 11 December 2016, and that was on Wednesday presented broadly in Foundation Gulbenkian in Lisbon, partner institution and scenery of one of the three core exhibits of this, the fourth edition.

It is under the theme The Shape Shape the triennial It intends to discuss the various ways to practice architecture in a world that it helps to permanently transform. And this with an emphasis in part on its social role, which now seems – just look, say the Commissioners – oscillate between extreme parameters: the architecture that is speculation and profit, that projects to the Arab Emirates are examples paradigmatic, and the low cost architecture, as a flag of political activism, with epicenters in Africa and Latin America. The two guarantees André Tavares, there is room for reflection that can be bothersome for some: “Even in this architecture working the sustainability of great activism, participatory, there is a performance component – it is in use that makes all the social surplus around. What sometimes seems poles apart, can touch each other and it is important to think about these intersections. “

Think and debate is proposing an extensive program with three major exhibitions (all to usher in the 6 October) mapping a part of the cartography of cultural institutions in Lisbon. The Shape Shape , the center shows that settles at the Museum of Electricity, will join three architectural studies in the same exhibition project (a Belgian, an American and a Portuguese) and concentrate on the form while “stringent measure, sometimes just other unfair”, architecture, explains Seixas Lopes. Work , the Gulbenkian, will appeal to many practical examples, including the Casa da Música in Porto, to answer the questions “how the work on the construction site determines the architecture ” and “how architecture affects the work?”. In the garage south of the Centro Cultural de Belém, The World in Our eyes will turn to the urban space that citizens also help to transform, trying to understand how the architects respond to the world ever built with the reality that finding and is itself a building.

“Who produces the architecture are not the architects, but society, people. The architects make a synthesis from around them, what they know, what they read and see, “recalls Tavares, returning to the theme of the Triennial:” What qualifies and transforms the cities is the way. It is the synthesis, is not a mere intellectual reverie. “It is, ensures this critical architecture, a place of conflict management, for example, between the designer and the developer, a place of reconciliation of wills. And being the most performative side of architecture, the form also opens the door of discipline to a non-specialized public that this pair of Commissioners would like to see increasingly interested in three-year schedule.

In year biennial and triennial of architecture – Venice, Sao Paulo, Oslo, Istanbul – , Lisbon hopes to make a difference with a theme that “despite technician and the subject of much theoretical work” is also inclusive. “Venice will like the Commissioner Aravena [Alejandro Aravena, a Chilean architect] and, therefore, we know that there will come a very upset program for activism architecture. We wanted to be cross – as much it is, “he adds Seixas Lopes

And one thing that fits is a generational look, not excluding.” Neither the parents nor the children “, focuses on generating Commissioners (Seixas Lopes is 43, Tavares 40). And it will be noted, for example, the guests for exhibitions and conferences (there is already a list, but is not yet closed and, therefore, can not yet make known names), but also the authors of the new projects program Satellite , which includes small exhibits and events spread across the city, looking sometimes to their peripheries, with stops in Amadora or Trafaria.