Posts Tagged ‘Lisbon Architecture Triennial’

Interview // Discreet Architecture: Lisbon’s Architecture Triennial PART1

Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.

The recently opened 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennial, Close, Closer, aims to question the borders of the discipline, open it toward immediate civic use and a reactive criticism and distill the comprehension of architecture into that of a vital spatial practice correlating to the quotidian. With its luxurious and deserted charm…[read on…]

Review // Discreet Architecture: Lisbon’s Architecture Triennial PART 2

Article by Marta Jecu – in Lisbon; Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013.

Detached from a literal understanding of architecture, the triennial “Close, Closer” slides between various framings of the “living experience”. These frames – a fiction of social forms of organization as retro-futuristic living nucleuses in the exhibition “Future Perfect”, the institution understood as a fluid and adaptable hub in “The Institute Effect” exhibition, and a re-enactment of past hypostases of Lisbon’s famous Marques de Pombal’s birth palace in “The Real and other Fictions” – are all set as an agenda to extract from architecture its agency. A set of talks, performances and events are meant to put these frameworks of “living” architecture into practice
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