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Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
Date
10 SEP 2024 - 02 NOV 2024
Schedule
Tuesday to Saturday, 12h-18h30
Location
Palácio Sinel de Cordes
Price
Free Admission
Participants
Invited Speaker: Ignacio Farías
Team
Curatord: Eduardo Ascensão e Paulo Catrica
Video editiong: Aurélio Vasques Design: Sara Orsi
Research: Eduardo Ascensão, Ana Catarina Costa, Marta Machado, Ana Estevens, Juliana Pereira
Scientific support: André Carmo, Filipa Serpa, Ricardo Agarez
Co-Production
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa, IHC - Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade NOVA, Universidade de Évora

Inhabiting Siza

Exhibition

The exhibition looks at the way residents of housing designed by Álvaro Siza experience, and interact with, their apartments’ spatial layout, the buildings’ public spaces and housing micro-technologies as well as their buildings’ social status as tourist attractions in their everyday life. Curated by Eduardo Ascensão and Paulo Catrica, the exhibition aims to cover the research gap on Siza’s architecture related to the lack of knowledge on residents’ reception and appropriation of his architecture. The experience of architecture is understood here in the sense of the way residents and the material or technological elements of housing co-constitute intricate processes of adaptation and interaction, making the event of ‘home’.

This relationship will be studied across the social and wealth spectrum, from the low-income population for whom the Bouça estate in Porto was originally designed, to the low-to-middle income population of Malagueira in Évora, through to the very high-income population of Terraços de Bragança in Lisbon. The investigation looks at Siza’s ideas of designing for an ‘inter-classist’ city in concrete sites, fleshing out the under-researched process of a lived architecture. It will use an ethnographic approach, with in-depth interviews, ethnographic ‘house visits’ and elicitation of ‘residents in action with his/her home’ through video and photography sessions. This interdisciplinary nature is reflected in the team members’ disciplinary backgrounds, which bridge Geography and Anthropology to Architecture and Photography.

The exhibition is open until 2 November 2024 (Tuesday to Saturday, 12h00 - 18h30).

Talks: Inhabiting Siza and the geographies of Architecture 
10 September 2024, 17h — 19h

Presentation (17h - 18h) with:
Eduardo Ascensão (CEG-IGOT, ULISBOA)
Ricardo Agarez (ISCTE-IUL)
Loretta Lees (Boston University, via online)

Doing words with things (18h - 19h):
The politics and poetics of Elemental’s social housing schemes
Keynote speaker: Ignacio Farías (Humboldt University)