The new MAAT building designed by the british architect Amanda Levete  (AL_A) will be opened to the public on 5 October, with a 12-hour programme that will include educational events, performances and music happenings, across the extended riverside campus kept by the EDP Foundation. PROGRAMME 12 pm – 12 am Semiconductor. Where Shapes Come From Projection. Video Room (new building) Nuno da Luz. C’mon Installation. Riverfront Haroon Mirza. Emerging Paradigm Installation. Main Gallery (new building) 1 pm Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Pynchon Park Exhibition opening Oval Gallery (new building) 2 pm The Form of Form – Lisbon Architecture Triennale 4th Edition Exhibition opening Yard 3 pm The World of Charles and Ray Eames…

On 30th September 2016, between 09:30 and 18:30, the PhD Week Fall 2016, organized in the framework of the IST PhD Program in Architecture, will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico – Centro de Congressos DECivil e Arquitectura (Lisbon University), with the following program: Moderation Ana Tostões (Coordinator of the IST PhD Program in Architecture) Program 09:30-10:00 – Opening session 10:00-11:00 – Mediterranean Syncretism in Spanish Art and Architecture, during the first decades of the twentieth Century – António Pizza (ETSAB-UPC); 11:00-11:15 – Break; 11:15-12:15 – “Exotic, Beautiful, Oddly Modernist”. The Algarve, a Mediterranean Riddle on the Atlantic – Ricardo Agarez (KU Leuven, Department of Architecture); 12:15-13:00 – Mediterranean. Contemporary meetings – Maria Fernanda Rollo (Secretary of State of Science, Techonology…

“On 19 September 2016 at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (Architectural and Heritage Centre), Paris, the representatives of seven States Parties, Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Japan and Switzerland were presented with the certificates of inscription on the List of World Heritage of the serial property “The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement”. On the occasion of an event organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, the Le Corbusier Foundation and the Association Le Corbusier sites, the chief of UNESCO’s Movable Heritage and Museums…