18/05/2016
Founded in 2007, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale is an open platform for the debate, research and promotion of contemporary architecture. Its 4th edition takes place in 2016 (October 5 – December 11), establishing the project's maturity, reaffirming its principles of independence and plurality of visions.
The world is transformed through architecture. Under the title The Form of Form, with André Tavares and Diogo Seixas Lopes as chief curators, this edition wants to further the discussion around the practice of architecture, emphasizing conceptual fault lines in a rapidly shifting social context.
Articulating a diversified programme, the Triennale wants to highlight currents of thought important for the production of architecture in a social context in constant transformation.
The different postures towards architecture will be presented in several fronts, namely through their aesthetic, technical, social and political aspects. To understand the practice of architecture as a profession committed to a complex social context, will allow the developing of the implications and possibilities of architectural decisions, underlining their technical and cultural relevance in society. The program will combine an historical approach with the research around contemporary practice, highlighting the challenges that architects face today.
THE FORM OF FORM
One of architecture’s fundamental legacies is its own form. Not only is history built from this visual universe, but form is also a common language that aggregates architects from all over the world around a collective conversation. In this exhibition, which starts from a potentially infinite archive, three architects build a dialog that challenges notions of authorship and the limits of form.
Curator: Diogo Seixas Lopes (PT)
Content: Socks (IT) Mariabruna Fabrizi
+ Fosco Lucarelli
MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
BUILDING SITE
Just as the forms of architecture determine the construction site's organization, technology and the economical structure with which society organizes its methods of production, stimulates design practices. From the communication between project and construction, the organization of time and money, to the rhetoric of politics or the technological excitement, it’s at the building site that everything is played out.
Curator: André Tavares (PT)
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
THE WORLD IN OUR EYES
From an extensive list of participants, with projects submitted from the four corners of the world, this exhibition displays how architects observe, describe, analyse and represent the city. Contemporary practices continue to demonstrate how the architectural way of seeing allows not only to feed the actual practice, but also to overcome its own limits, spreading out into many different aspects of understanding the city.
Curators: FIG Projects (CA) Fabrizio Gallanti (IT) + Francisca Insulza (CL)
Garagem Sul – Centro Cultural de Belém
TALK, TALK, TALK
Having the three core exhibitions as a starting point, there will be three days of conferences and debates that emerge from contemporary architectural practices towards its future prospects, revising history without forgetting the social demands of the present.
SATELLITES
A programme of concise and powerful exhibitions and events, whose content amplifies and resonates with the several places where it spreads across the city. Several participants will be selected by way of an international call for projects through the Future of Architecture Platform.
AWARDS
Fundação Millennium bcp sponsors the three awards included in the 4th edition of the Lisbon Triennale: The Début Award for young architects boosts the recognition of recently established studios, whose average age does not exceed 35. Based on a criterion of excellence in the contribution to architecture, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be announced at this edition's opening week, the awarded individual will receive an artwork by José Pedro Croft.
The urban core, industrial facilities and harbour of Sines, a city south of Lisbon, is the selected terrain for the Universities Award Competition, with the participation of the main Portuguese architecture schools. The results will be displayed in an exhibition at the Triennale’s headquarters.
Call Début Award for young architects
International call for Lisbon Triennale Millennium bcp Début Award is now open. Young architects are welcome to apply until 31 May. We are looking for extraordinary work by up-and-coming talent under 35 years of age.
The winner will be awarded with a prize of 5000 Euros, and will present a lecture during the 4th edition of Lisbon Triennale’s closing week.
The jury is composed by top international influencers in the field of architecture: Tim Abrahams (UK), Fernanda Bárbara (BR), Margarita Jover (ES), Tetsuo Kondo (JP), Luís Santiago Baptista (PT), André Tavares (PT) and Mimi Zeiger (US).
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The Lisbon Architecture Triennale is a non-profit association whose mission is to research, foster and promote architectural thinking and practice. It holds a major forum every three years for the debate, discussion and dissemination of architecture across geographic and disciplinary boundaries. The first Triennale, "Urban Voids" took place in 2007 with a programme of international exhibitions, competitions and conferences drawing 52,000 visitors and participants. In 2010, its second edition "Let’s Talk About Houses" consolidated the Triennale’s presence in the circuit of events devoted to architecture with an estimated 154,000 attendees. Now, from its new headquarters in the Sinel de Cordes Palace, where a creative cluster is being established, the Triennale organizes as well "Intervalo", a programme which happens between each edition of the Triennale event.
The Lisbon Architecture Triennale was distinguished in its three editions (2007, 2010 and 2013) with the High Patronage of His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic and since 2010, it was also awarded the status of Cultural Interest by the Ministry of Culture.