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"Home from Home"
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Three UK architects - Carl Turner Architects, KrausSchönberg and MA Projects - were invited by the British Council in collaboration with The Architecture Foundation, Ordem Dos Arquitectos (OdA) and MUDE Museum of Fashion and Design_Francisco Capelo Collection, to submit proposals as part of ‘New Architects: Portugal_UK’ international exchange programme. London based Carl Turner Architects have been selected to create an installation for MUDE, in Lisbon. Home from Home is an installation by London-based practice Carl Turner Architects that examines British domestic life. A series of modules representing a reduced scale house, give the opportunity to explore everyday design and pose the question, what makes a home? Quintessentially British components provide an interactive experience while enhancing the subtle differences between Portuguese and British living. The installation is organised by the British Council as part of New Architects: Portugal_UK, the latest in a series of New Architects International Exchange programmes initiated by The Architecture Foundation. The Portugal_UK exchange, partnered with Ordem dos Arquitectos, allows a platform for discussion between young architects from both countries, and responds to the 2010 Lisbon Architecture Triennale theme ‘Let’s talk about houses’. |
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The Architecture Foundation Presents Portugal_UK:
Practices announced
20 October – 19 November 2010
The Architecture Foundation in collaboration with Ordem dos Arquitectos and The British Council are pleased to announce the UK practices selected to take part in an exchange programme between the UK and Portugal for 2010-2011. The three exciting emerging UK practices; Carl Turner Architects, KrausSchoenberg and MA Projects, will join Portuguese practices; Joao Prates Ruivo + Raquel Maria Oliveira, MOOV and SAMI-arquitectos to act as ambassadors for the architectural scenes in their respective countries, taking part in reciprocal programmes in Lisbon and London with a schedule of coordinated activities including public lectures, studio visits and site tours.
The practices were selected by leading UK professionals; Marcos Cruz, Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL; Hilary French, Head, School of Architecture & Design, Royal College of Art; Sarah Ichioka, Director, The Architecture Foundation; Crispin Kelly, Director, Baylight Properties and Vicky Richardson, Director, Architecture, Design, Fashion, British Council. Portuguese professionals; Cristina Veríssimo, Conference curator 'Young architects – International Prize Winners' - OA 2009/2010; Duarte Cabral de Melo, Chairman of the Secil Prize Jury 2010 and Luis Santiago Baptista, Director, ARQ/A magazine and conference curator "Geração Z".
The UK based architects visited Lisbon between 20 and 22 October 2010, to coincide with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale for a programme of intensive workshops and networking events and present a public lecture at the Museum of Fashion and Design (MUDE) organized by Ordem dos Arquitectos. The Portuguese practices will visit London for the second part of the exchange from 16 -19 November, including a public presentation at the AF.
Programme (pdf, 96k)
Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2010
14.10.2010 - 16.01.2011
The Lisbon Architecture Triennale — the most significant architectural event in the Iberian Peninsula — is now in preparation for its second edition. Based on the high quality and development of Portuguese architecture, the Triennale aims to establish itself as an outstanding forum for discussing issues of contemporary architecture, starting from the principle that architectural practice is a fundamental expression of the creation of place, the construction of an integrating sense of citizenship, and cultural affirmation
The British Council is partnering with the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa to bring the work of Alison and Peter Smithson to Lisbon. Two projects Patio and Pavilion and House of the Future which formed part of the exhibition Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to the House of Today will be presented as the initiating presentation of the Trienal at the Berardo Museum in Belem.
This installation will reflect the perpetual aspiration to find new propositions and solutions in housing and will provide historical context to the contemporary work presented at the Trienal.
Read more about the Alison and Peter Smithson on the Design Museum website.
| Associated Events |
Lecture by Sir Peter Cook The British Council in partnership with the 2nd edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale is organising a public lecture by Sir Peter Cook, invited curator of The Nordic Connection within the Triennale exhibition "Falemos de Casas - Entre o Norte e o Sul", on display at the Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon. Peter Cook is constantly hunting inside his head to recall and reinvent a world where the experience of the city is not just a question of filling-in old blocks with new blocks - or even new swirls - but digging around in the sandwich of experience between the cosy, the exposed, the craggy, the smooth, the mechanized, the vegetated, the private, the peeping-out, the public, the celebratory and the contemplative. He believes that his architecture is about the variety of experience. 15 October, 1100
FAUTL - Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Auditório Rainha Sonja
Rua Sá Nogueira - Pólo Universitário - Alto da Ajuda - 1349-055 Lisboa |
Once Upon a Place - 1st International Conference on Architecture and Fiction This is a Triennale Associated Event, and the British Council is sponsoring two visiting speakers.
For more details and programme, please see http://www.onceuponaplace.fa.utl.pt/. |
New Architects: Portugal_UK
Intercâmbio Portugal – Reino Unido
Emergent Architecture: Exchange Portugal-UK
For more information, please visit http://www.arquitectos.pt/ |
Poem - Falemos de Casas - Let's Talk About Houses
Houses, yes, let’s talk about houses, about
the wise use of so solid and silent
a power, hailing from ancient times.
Here are the architects, the ones who are going to die,
smiling with sweet irony in the depths
of a rare secret that restores them to clay.
The ones with soft irrepressible hands.
— Across the months, dreaming of the last rains,
the houses discover their innocent knack for enduring against
the subtle mouth crowned by the chaos of words.
extract from Herberto Helder, A Colher na Boca. Lisboa, Ática, 1961. p. 13-15, and
Ou o Poema Contínuo. Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2004. p. 9-12.
Translated by Richard Zenith
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