Conference and exhibition: Arquitectas da nossa Casa

Coimbra, 26th October 2024 Within the aim of the celebration of National Day of the Architect, which was celebrated on 3rd July, the Centro Regional Section of the Portuguese Order of Architects will hold the conference “Arquitectas da nossa casa” on 26 October 2024 to highlight the portuguese women architects. The aim of this event is to give visibility to the current practice of women architects, providing a space for reflection and debate, as well as recognition and celebration of their diverse career paths. The conference will be composed of several roundtables, and at the end have the opening of…

Exhibition: O que faz falta. 50 years of Portuguese architecture in democracy

Casa da Arquitectura: 26th October 2024 – 7th September 2025 Casa da Arquitectura is joining in the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974 Revolution with the exhibition “O que faz falta. 50 years of Portuguese architecture in democracy”, curated by architects Jorge Figueira (curator) and Ana Neiva (assistant curator), that will open to the public on 26th October. Throughout the weekend, with free access, a varied program is offered, including music, conferences and visits. The formal opening of the exhibition will take place on 26th October at 3pm in the Álvaro Siza Space. The Executive Director will…

Exhibition Mais do que Casas / More than Housing

Docomomo Portugal is pleased to announce that next Friday, 27th September 2024 at 19H00 will be inaugurated the Exhibition “Mais do que Casas: Como vamos habitar em Abril 2074?” [More than Housing: How will we live on April 2074?] at MUDE in Lisbon. The Exhibition presented by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in partnership with MUDE shows results from the research by FAUP “More than Housing“, namely the research produced within the academic year 2023/2024 by students and professors from the Faculties of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Fine Arts in Portugal. The exhibition and all the…

MUDE reopened last week

Docomomo Portugal is pleased to announce that MUDE (Design Museum), in Lisbon, reopened last week on 25 July, after 8 years of rehabilitation works. As reopening exhibition is featured until 31 October 2024 the exhibition “O Edifício em Exposição / The Building on Exhibition”. Directed by Bárbara Coutinho, Docomomo Portugal member and co-chair of Docomomo ISC/ID, since its creation in 2009, MUDE closed for extensive rehabilitation works in 2016 by architect Luís Miguel Saraiva. It is located in Lisbon’s historical center Baixa Pombalina, MUDE occupies an entire Pombaline Quarter, where previously were located the headquarters of the National Ultramarine Bank….

Visits Cycle: A Nossa Casa – C.A.S.A. exhibition

As parallel programming of the C.A.S.A. (Collection, Álvaro Siza  Archive) exhibition, is taking place from 4-15 July 2024 the visits cycle “A Nossa Casa”, offering on-site visits to the projects on display in the Álvaro Siza Wing of the Serralves Foundation. Each work is presented by experts and/or even the owners, providing unique perspectives on its genesis, evolution and interior occupation. In this sort of anthropology of architectural space, not only the thoughts of Álvaro Siza are revealed, but also the intimacy of each person’s dwelling. This direct experience of the buildings will later be analyzed by the architect António…

Exhibition “Siza”

Last 16 May was inaugurated at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, the exhibition “Siza”, which will be patent there at the Main Gallery and Temporary Exhibition Gallery from 17 May to 26 August 2024. The exhibition is dedicated to the work of the Portuguese Pritzker Prize architect Álvaro Siza, bringing together original material from his archives as well as a series of reference works for his practice. Focused on the role of drawing in Siza Vieira’s work, one of the most important figures in the history of architecture in Portugal, and one of the great living names in modern architecture…

Exhibition: Eileen Gray. E.1027, Arte Total

Docomomo International is trilled to share that it is once again supporting a edition of the exhibition “Eileen Gray. E.1027, Arte Total”. This time present at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (MNAC) in Lisbon, its opening will take place next Saturday 27th November at 15H30 with a Roundtable and followed at 17H00 by a formal inauguration ceremony The exhibition will then be open for visits from 28th November 2021 until 27th February 2022. This will be the fifth edition of the exhibition initially designed for the Mebane Hall in Austin, Texas (2017), and which has already been at the Akademie der…

Exhibition: Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: um arquivo em construção / Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: An archive in construction

Docomomo International is pleased to share that next Saturday, 13th November 2021 will happen the opening ceremony of the exhibition Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: um arquivo em construção / Bartolomeu Costa Cabral: An archive in construction. The event will take place at 16H00 on the first floor of the Lopes Martins Mansion, Porto. “Curated by Paulo Providência, Pedro Baía and Mariana Couto,  it aims to record a reading of the architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral´s production – of more than 200 projects, from 1948 to the present day – through the interrelations of the collection recently deposited at the Marques da Silva…

“La Carpa” by David Bestué and Roser Corella – Loop Barcelona

Joining the Loop Festival, the platform for artist’s films and videos dedicated to the study and promotion of the moving image, Fundació Mies van der Rohe will feature the documentary film “La Carpa” by filmmaker Roser Corella and artist and writer David Bestué. It will be at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion from 9th to 21st November 2021. The opening vernissage will take place on 13th  November at 17:30H counting with the presence of the artists “The documentary ”La Carpa” aims to investigate the process of construction, use and disappearance of a removable theatre installed at the end of…

Matter. the white conferences – MárioBonito.1OOanos

Matter. the white conferences evokes the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mário Bonito (1921-1976) – a modern architect from Porto author of works as the “O Lar Familiar” Neighborhood and the Ouro Industrial Company Building, with a strong connection to the cinema, a decisive role in the Portuguese Club of Cinematography, and an active participation in theater -, through a set of actions that discuss his lines of thought and body of work, which we aim to expand and develop through the pursuit of authorial readings on contemporary matters, beginning mid- September, extending up to the end of December 2021….