CLOSE, CLOSER: invites to present proposals

On its way to the 3rd edition in 2013, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale organizes during the triannual programme 2011 – 2013 conferences, debates, exhibitions and competitions. A cycle of 4 conferences with international architects and critics to happen in Lisbon between 2011 and 2013 (Autumn & Spring) will be announced soon. Close, Closer initiates a discussion around contemporary architecture and invites participation.

Curators. Image courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

For the first time, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale is presenting a Début award to a young architect or practice to celebrate their achievements and to encourage their career. The winner will be selected by the curatorial team and an expert nominated by the Triennale Board, from a shortlist created by over 50 influential Portuguese and international nominators. Any office with an average age under 35 is eligible for this award.

Titled Close, Closer, the programme of the 3rd Lisbon Architecture Triennale (12 Sep–15 Dec 2013) was launched on September 19 in Lisbon and internationally on Friday, 21, at the UK branch headquarters of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

The curatorial guidelines and main events of Close, Closer were introduced before an audience of journalists, guests and members of the creative community in each city. One of the programme highlights is the launch of 4 special initiatives inviting participation and input from architects and other creatives: a grants scheme, a students competition, an award and an open call for associate projects.

Both presentations were led by chief curator Beatrice Galilee and the members of the curatorial team, Liam Young, Mariana Pestana and José Esparza. José Mateus, President of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, made an opening address in Lisbon, while Manuel Henriques, the Triennale’s Executive Director, opened the session in London.

In partnership and collaboration with related platforms and institutions, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale associates beyond its programme with selected and relevant projects to support the communication, debate and discussion within architecture and urban planning.

Schedule.-

Award opens.- 17 September 2012.
Digital submissions open from 1 November 2012.
Application and submission deadline.- 21 June 2013.
Shortlist announced.- 2 September 2013.
Winner announced.- 12 September 2013.

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José Esparza. Image courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Beatrice Galilee. Image courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Liam Young. Image courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Mariana Pestana. Image courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Close, Closer. Image courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

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Mariana Pestana

Mariana Pestana (b. Viseu, Portugal, 1982) is an architect and curator, living and working between London and Lisbon. Her work is informed by an interest in architecture and fiction. She makes exhibitions and installations that enact fictional scenarios and programmes, so that many people can experience them together.

In 2011, she co-founded a collective called The Decorators, with whom she developed curatorial and research projects through interventions in the public realm.

She was a lecturer in Spatial Design at Central Saint Martins and Chelsea College of Arts, and in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Arts. At the moment She is part of the teaching team of the University of the Underground at Sandberg Institute, and she is completing a PhD called Fictional World Enactments at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

She was co-curating an exhibition called The Future Starts Here for the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum) that opened in May 2018. This was an exhibition about emerging technologies and how they are already affecting our future at a range of scales: as individuals, as citizens and as a species. She was also co-curating an exhibition for MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), which opened to the public in April 2018, in Lisbon, called Eco-Visionaries: Art and Architecture After the Anthropocene. Divided into four moments of ecological awareness - Disaster, Confluence, Extinction and Adaptation - it displays work by contemporary artists and architects that capture subjective, fluctuating, unstable images of ecology.

She will be the curator of the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, which will take place on 26 September – 8 November 2020.

Beatrice Galilee 

Beatrice Galilee (b. London, UK, 1982) is an architecture curator, author and design advisor. She is the founder and executive director of The World Around, a New York-based nonprofit platform dedicated to visionary global design and architecture. She is the author of Radical Architecture of the Future, published by Phaidon in 2021, and between 2014-2019 served as the first curator of contemporary architecture and design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked on collections, exhibitions and commissions, including collaborations with artists including Wolfgang Tillmans, Cornelia Parker and Adrián Villar Rojas.

Between 2009 and 2013, Beatrice Galilee served as chief curator of the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale; co-curator of the 2011 Gwangju Design Biennale; and co-curator of the 2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism. In collaboration with Aberrant Architecture, she launched and co-directed The Gopher Hole, an experimental exhibition and project space in East London.

Beatrice's writing career began in 2001 as a contributor to Building Design, and she continues to work in architectural publishing, with essays, reviews, journals and newspapers including Wallpaper*, Elle Decor, Icon, Domus and many more.

Published on: October 7, 2012

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