Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa, in Barcelona
25/03/2017.
Museu Marítim [BCN] Spain 1.03 > 1.05.2017
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The Museu Marítim of Barcelona presents a retrospective of the architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça centered in the city of Lisbon.
Lisbon. Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Pothograph © João Silveira Ramos. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Lisbon plan. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
Pavello coneixement mars. Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Photograph © Tiago Casanova. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
Musealization of the archaeological zone of the New Castle St. Jorge Square. Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Photograph © Tiago Casanova. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
View of room, exhibition, Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa. Image courtesy of Museu Marítim
Models and plans of the city show projects such as the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas of the Expo of Lisbon'98 and the museum of the archaeological zone of the New Square of the Castle of St. George.
The Museu Marítim of Barcelona presents the exhibition Carrilho da Graça: Lisbon in collaboration with the association Arquitectes per l'Arquitectura. A retrospective exhibition, curated by Marta Sequeira and Susana Rato, which brings together some of its most internationally recognized projects, located in the city of Lisbon, such as the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas in the World Exhibition and the museum's archaeological zone The New Castle St. Jorge Square.
Carrilho da Graça: Lisbon aims to bring to the public the way of working and thinking of this Portuguese architect of international projection. This way of looking as professional and as teacher, takes as a reference the city in which he has been working for more than 30 years: Lisbon. The materials presented in this retrospective allow to generate an approximation to a theory of territory, expressed in a plant and a model of the city and reiterated in the models of several of its projects.
The theory from which Carrilho da Graça works maintains that the main lines and points of the topography mark the routes and the human settlements and, therefore, the construction and architecture of the cities. The architect perfectly recognizes this reality in Lisbon, which receive its main buildings and routes in the highest areas of the city.
The studies of Carrilho da Graça do not have as final motivation the analysis of the territory if not the application of its results to urbanism. Thus, the exhibition gathers some of his most significant works, added to projects that never were built. All of them reflect the architecture of shapes and volumes prismatic and of recognizable and precise geometry of the Portuguese architect.
Coinciding with the inauguration of the exhibition at the Museu Marítim in Barcelona, next February 28th at 6pm, João Luís Carrilho da Graça will give a lecture on the contents of the retrospective in the auditorium of the Museum.
This exhibition, which was previously exhibited at the Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), the Leopoldo Rother Architecture Museum (Bogotá) and the Museu da Casa Brasileira (São Paulo), can be visited at the Museu Marítim de Barcelona between since 1 March until 1 May 2017.
Carrilho da Graça: Lisbon aims to bring to the public the way of working and thinking of this Portuguese architect of international projection. This way of looking as professional and as teacher, takes as a reference the city in which he has been working for more than 30 years: Lisbon. The materials presented in this retrospective allow to generate an approximation to a theory of territory, expressed in a plant and a model of the city and reiterated in the models of several of its projects.
The theory from which Carrilho da Graça works maintains that the main lines and points of the topography mark the routes and the human settlements and, therefore, the construction and architecture of the cities. The architect perfectly recognizes this reality in Lisbon, which receive its main buildings and routes in the highest areas of the city.
The studies of Carrilho da Graça do not have as final motivation the analysis of the territory if not the application of its results to urbanism. Thus, the exhibition gathers some of his most significant works, added to projects that never were built. All of them reflect the architecture of shapes and volumes prismatic and of recognizable and precise geometry of the Portuguese architect.
Coinciding with the inauguration of the exhibition at the Museu Marítim in Barcelona, next February 28th at 6pm, João Luís Carrilho da Graça will give a lecture on the contents of the retrospective in the auditorium of the Museum.
This exhibition, which was previously exhibited at the Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), the Leopoldo Rother Architecture Museum (Bogotá) and the Museu da Casa Brasileira (São Paulo), can be visited at the Museu Marítim de Barcelona between since 1 March until 1 May 2017.
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Dates
From March 1st to May 1st, 2017
Venue
Naves de las Atarazanas, Av. de les Drassanes s/n, Barcelona. Spain
Curators
Marta Sequeira and Susana Rato
João Luís Carrilho da Graça
João Luís Carrilho da Graça. Born in Portalegre (Portugal, 1952), he graduated in Architecture at the Superior School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, in 1977, and since that moment he has run his own office. Between 1977 and 1992, he was an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon and since 2001 he has been a visiting professor in the Architecture Department of the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the University of Évora since 2005. He has developed pedagogical activity In different universities, seminars and conferences around the world.
An important figure in contemporary Portuguese architecture, his numerous works include the Lisbon School of Music, the Information and Documentation Center of the Palace of Belém, the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas of the Expo of Lisbon'98 and the Museum of Orient
His work has received numerous international prizes, among them the SECIL Prize of Architecture, by the University of Studies of Communication and Media (1994); The Valmor Prize (1998) and the FAD Prize (1999), for the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas in the World Exhibition; The Valmor Prize (2008), by the Music School of Lisbon; The Prize Piranesi of Rome (2010), for the museum of the archaeological zone of the New Castle St. George Square; The Frate-Sole European Prize for Sacred Architecture (2012) by the Church of San Antonio in Porto Alegre, and the AIT Transport Award (2012). In addition to several nominations for the European architectural award "Mies Van der Rohe".
He has also received several awards for his complete work, such as the International Prize for Art Critics (1992), Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (1999), the Premio Pessoa (2008), the distinction of Knight of Arts and Letters of The French Republic (2010), the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (2012) and the recognition of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2015).
An important figure in contemporary Portuguese architecture, his numerous works include the Lisbon School of Music, the Information and Documentation Center of the Palace of Belém, the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas of the Expo of Lisbon'98 and the Museum of Orient
His work has received numerous international prizes, among them the SECIL Prize of Architecture, by the University of Studies of Communication and Media (1994); The Valmor Prize (1998) and the FAD Prize (1999), for the Pavilion of Knowledge of the Seas in the World Exhibition; The Valmor Prize (2008), by the Music School of Lisbon; The Prize Piranesi of Rome (2010), for the museum of the archaeological zone of the New Castle St. George Square; The Frate-Sole European Prize for Sacred Architecture (2012) by the Church of San Antonio in Porto Alegre, and the AIT Transport Award (2012). In addition to several nominations for the European architectural award "Mies Van der Rohe".
He has also received several awards for his complete work, such as the International Prize for Art Critics (1992), Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (1999), the Premio Pessoa (2008), the distinction of Knight of Arts and Letters of The French Republic (2010), the Medal of the French Academy of Architecture (2012) and the recognition of the Royal Institute of British Architects (2015).
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