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….

Exhibition: Habitar Portugal 12 – 17 / Espaço Público: uma casa para todos

Docomomo International wishes to share that today will be the inauguration of the exhibition “Habitar Portugal 12 – 17 / Espaço Público: uma casa para todos” [Habitar Portugal 12 – 17 / Public Space: a home for everyone] at Centro Cultural de Belém, CCB / Garagem Sul, Lisbon. For the inauguration will be held a conference at 18H30 entitled “Espaço Público: Porquê?” [Public Space: why?], with Andreia Garcia, Rita Palla Aragão, Tiago Castela, as well as the exhibition commissioners Susana Lobo and Ricardo Agarez. “Under the motto “Public Space: a home for everyone”, the 6th edition of Habitar Portugal is…

Exhibition: Large-Scale Transformation, a New Sustainability Challenge. Kleiburg in Amsterdam, Grand Parc in Bordeaux

Docomomo International is pleased to share that on 8th October 2021 will be inaugurated the exhibition “Large-Scale Transformation, a New Sustainability Challenge. Kleiburg in Amsterdam, Grand Parc in Bordeaux”, at Le Pavillon de Caen, co-produced by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. “After its stay in the Cité de l’architecture in Paris, continues its journey and is now presented at the Biennale d’architecture et d’urbanisme de Caen-Normandie “Living tomorrow, from the imaginary to the fact”. An itinerary about collective housing guided by two winning works of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture –…

Exhibition: 9×100=’900 Trani

On 2nd October 2021 Docomomo Italy inaugurated the exhibition 9×100=’900 Trani – 9 Itinerari x 100 Architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia [9 itineraries x 100 architectures of the ‘900 in Basilicata and Puglia]. An inauguration conference took place on the same day entitled Convegno sulla conoscenza e la tutela dell’architettura moderna [Conference on the knowledge and protection of modern architecture] moderated by Antonello Pagliuca. The program can be seen here The exhibition can be visited until 10th October at Castello Svevo, Trani. More information on Docomomo Italy’s website

XV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism “Empty Spain, Full Spain. Strategies for Conciliation”

Docomomom International would like to share the XV Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU), which will be presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. The Fundació Mies van der Rohe invites you to visit the exhibition that can be enjoyed until 16 September and in parallel, from 2 July to 10 October, at the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid. Two emblematic sites with a common objective: to connect architecture, urban planning and citizenship under the slogan: “Empty Spain, Full Spain. Strategies for conciliation”. “The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, together with the Patio Herreriano Museum of Contemporary Art…