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.
