描述

This is a collection of pocket-size books for the sixth edition of Lisbon Architecture Triennale, edited by the curatorial team of Terra in partnership with Circo de Ideias. These four books are the result of a three-year-long collective exploration that embraces the themes displayed in each forward-looking exhibition and brings together the voices of people from practice, government or the arts. An unique edition that constitutes a long-term legacy guaranteeing future generations a broad access to contemporary architectural discourse.

Retroactive 9789893337974

Through eight essays focusing on pressing issues in the architectural and urban design fields, Retroactive reflects on the challenges and opportunities in addressing broken cities, which fail to provide services and optimal liveable conditions to their inhabitants, and in which one third of humanity dwells. Migration, land tenure, water, sanitation, overcrowding, waste, violence and mobility are the guiding topics explored by the authors, creating a heterogeneous corpus of knowledge nurturing past, present, and future discussions on the fragile and constantly evolving relationship between human life and its environment.

Cycles 9789893337981

Before architecture’s organising powers are triggered through the act of design, a building is no more than a formless accumulation of varying materials – the very same components that will eventually re-emerge with a building’s demolition years later, when it becomes a bare mountain of formless matter. But architectural design can extend beyond a given form and start operating at the level of a redistribution of matter through design material cycles. This book brings together contemporary architectural practices and artists reflecting upon the art of designing cycles, addressing the past and present of construction, relationships to the geopolitics of extractivism, and possible futures for the building industry.

Visionaries 9789895383603

The project Visionaries – an exhibition and a publication – explores both the process and agents of visionary design production in the age of the next grand narrative. It focuses on the visions by architects, designers, and engineers, who want to change the world systemically. The exhibition participants and the authors of this book aspire to impose an alternative order of things and create not just beautiful physical structures or objects, but ambitious, and, at times, controversial prescriptions for future action. In this way or another, all of them are interested in new models and prototypes that are supposed to be interpreted – not simply replicated! – in multiple productive ways, also by future generations.

Multiplicity 9789895383610

Multiplicity features the work of practices from across the globe experimenting in a myriad of ways with architecture. Often working in challenging environmental, social, and political conditions, these practitioners are pushing the boundaries of architectural practice. In the process, they challenge our established definition of what architecture is while reclaiming and redefining it as a potent tool to fight for environmental, economic, and social equity and justice. An agile, new architecture of institutions and community, mirroring and learning from the uncertainties of our time is emerging in the process. Here are a few examples.