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Launch of NU # 40. Interviews. Critical Anthology 2002-2012
21 February 2013 at 2130
Grande Auditório da Culturgest

Conversation with Tony Fretton, Álvaro Domingues and Didier Faustino
Moderators: Diogo Lopes and Paulo Seixas Providência

FREE ADMISSION

As part of the DISTÂNCIA CRITICA cycle of debates and conferences, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the magazine Nu from the Núcleo de Estudantes do Departamento de Arquitectura da Universidade de Coimbra are presenting the book NU # 40 Interviews. Critical Anthology 2002-2012.

Mais informação: http://arquivonu.blogspot.co.uk/

Can you beat the crisis with 500 Euros?
Too late! The Lisbon Architecture Triennale gave you the opportunity to prove it until 18 February.

The Grants
Part of the programme of the 3rd Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Crisis Buster is a grants scheme aimed at civic, community and cultural projects, designed for Lisbon (city and greater Lisbon area) and its inhabitants.

Between 500 and 2500 euros, the grants will be awarded through a competition open to entrants of all ages, nationalities and fields of study or activity. The decisive factor will be the project’s ability to respond to a specific problem identified in the Portuguese capital, as well as its potential for future continuation or replication.

Crisis Buster is supported by the Gulbenkian Program of Human Development /Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and counts the British Council Portugal as Patron.

Challenge and Contribution

With Crisis Buster, the Triennale is challenging participants – individually or in teams - to activate their skills and know-how in a wide range of areas to benefit the community. It is also a call to action for the citizens of Lisbon to get directly and constructively involved in solving concrete issues identified in their city. In practice, the projects are intended to materialize into interventions and initiatives, be it spatial or social, physical or virtual, scaled for the whole city, one neighbourhood or a single street. They can be targeted at a given portion of the population (defined by an age group or area of activity), or at the people living in a particular building or even the fans of a particular sport or hobby.

The Crisis Buster grants can be used for setting up or renovating a piece of urban equipment that is essential to the daily life of a neighbourhood community; for designing signage for citizens with special needs or a system for exchanging second-hand objects; a programme of activities for the aged in a nursing home or a training workshop for a school or association.

More at http://close-closer.com/#/open_calls

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Trienal 2010
"Home from Home"
Watch the installation literally unfold in front of you...
Home from Home - MUDE - image: carlos porfírio, cjporfirio.com

Home from Home was 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?

The installation was 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 responded to the 2010 Lisbon Architecture Triennale theme ‘Let’s talk about houses’.

More about Home from Home

www.designweek.co.uk/
backoftheenvelope.britishcouncil.org/
www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/
photourbanist.photoshelter.com/
www.facebook.com/britishcouncilarts

Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2010
14.10.2010 - 16.01.2011

For the second edition of The Lisbon Architecture Triennale — the most significant architectural event in the Iberian Peninsula — the British Council partnered 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 were presented as the initiating presentation of the Trienal at the Berardo Museum in Belem.
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 Trienal, organised a public lecture in October 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.

Once Upon a Place - 1st International Conference on Architecture and Fiction
This was a Triennale Associated Event, and the British Council sponsored 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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