Spanish architecture from A to Z at Lisbon Architecture Triennale
30/09/2013.
Lisbon Architecture Triennale [Lisbon] Portugal 12/09 - 15/12/2013
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA
metalocus, ROBERTO ALIA
The Lisbon Triennale is going on, in these three months of crazy cultural activity around achitecture. Today we'd like to look at the spanish production, and show some pieces of what it is bringing to the Triennale. From A for Andrés Jaque, to Z for Zuloark, across Estudio SIC, PKMN or Luis Úrculo, different strokes for different folks!
Superpowers of Ten, by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photograph © Miguel de Guzmán. Courtesy of Trienal Arquitectura Lisboa.
Superpowers of Ten, by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photography © Miguel de Guzmán. Courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Superpowers of Ten, by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation. Photography © Jorge López Conde. Courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Super Hatch, by PKMN.
Civic Swing, by Estudio SIC.
Civic Swing, by Estudio SIC.
Poster. Civic Swing, by Estudio SIC.
Let the things go down to go up to go down to go up to go down, by Luis Úrculo.
Poster. Let the things go down to go up to go down to go up to go down, by Luis Úrculo.
Universal Declaration of Urban Rights, by Zuloark. Photography © Catarina Botelho. Courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Universal Declaration of Urban Rights, by Zuloark. Photography © Luke Hayes. Courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Universal Declaration of Urban Rights, by Zuloark. Photography © Luke Hayes. Courtesy of Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
SUPERPOWERS OF TEN
by Andrés Jaque.
Superpowers of Ten, by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation.
Superpowers of Ten is a reenactment, a cover version and a reinterpretation of the iconic Powers of Ten made in 1968 by Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten represents an important part of the cultural context we live in and this new live version aims to celebrate the struggle of inhabiting in and out of the frame, recuperating narratives lost somewhere in the scaling up and in the scaling down of the camera. This original piece written, directed and performed by the architect Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation contextualizes this story into contemporary discourse by surfacing the complexity inscribed in global systems. This powerful play was staged in the square three times during the opening week. In this particular act, the city will work as a stage while the audience observes from within the Civic Stage.
Programme.- New Publics - Public Theatre.
Venue.- Praça da Figueira, Lisboa.
SUPER HATCH
por PKMN.
Super Hatch, por PKMN.
Super Hatch proposes an analogical re-inerpretation in real scale of one of those digital graphic tools: Cad Hatch Patterns. Hatch Patterns don’t have a scale though they’re used to represent the real materials that are used on public space design in cities. The re-interpretation process consists on the physical drawing of some of these hatch patterns superimposed to surfaces of public spaces in Lisbon. Could a superhatch modify, activate or encourage an urban space?
Associated project.- performingarchitectures, curated by Ariadna Cantis.
Venue.- Praça Igreja de Sao Domingos, Lisbon.
Dates.- 7th November 2013.
CIVIC SWING
by Estudio SIC.
Civic Swing, by Estudio SIC.
Golf is not a sport. It’s a powerful urbanization tool. A practice that mediates between nature, the city and the bodies to train power over the territory. The new cities are planned with the golf course as an urbanizing engine. Insert the golf in Plaça do Figueira means to represent the political sphere where decision are taken, negotiates between agents, it’s a place where urban performs.
The project aims to implement access to represent other bodies and other voices with different instruments based on each citizen, expressing heterogeneous diversity that public space can hold. An action where disrupt other bodies, excluded of these places, of decision, ultimately excluded from the game, take sides and become a part of a new place of decisions: the Civic Swing.
Programme.- New Publics - Public Theatre.
Venue.- Praça da Figueira, Lisbon.
LET THE THINGS GO DOWN TO GO UP TO GO DOWN TO GO UP
by Luis Úrculo.
Let the things go down to go up to go down to go up to go down, by Luis Úrculo.
Timeline goes on and demands evolution. Across history, the apropiation, decomposition and reusing have been basic tools of progress and development.
The proposal for Triennale starts at this way of thinking and acting, in which several actions will be done individually or in group. Visitors themselves will destroy the presented structures (evolutive destruction) to build from the result another construction, which will be constantly destroyed in a continuous becoming of building and demolishing.
We must surpass limits of respectable and static. Starting at collapse to create a new space of reference, as it can be destroyed and then evaluated again.
Associated projects.- performingarchitectures, curated by Ariadna Cantis.
Venue.- Palácio Sinel de Cordes, Campo Santa Clara 142, Lisbon.
Venue.- 15th December 2013.
DECLARACIÓN UNIVERSAL DE LOS DERECHOS URBANOS
by Zuloark.
Declaración Universal de los Derechos Urbanos, by Zuloark. Photography © Luke Hayes.
Presented as an infrastructure for communal reasoning about the rights to the city and the rights of being a citizen, the intent of this project is to build a Universal Declaration of Urban Rights, aiming to reach a consensus about the methodologies that regulate the construction, legislation and use of public space. Every Tuesday at 19:00, there is a Parliamentary Session led by guest speakers, open to the public, that contributes to the making of one article. Based on a trial and error methodology, the declaration will evolve as the project develops, throughout the course of the exhibition, written in successive drafts.
Exhibition.- The Real and Other Fictions.
Venue.- Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa. R. de O Século, 79, Bairro Alto (Lisbon).
Opening hours.- Tuesday-Saturday, 15.00h-22.00h.
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Esaú Acosta - Mauro Gil-Fournier - Miguel Jaenicke SIC Estudio
[SIC] is a professional studio interested in the advancement of architecture, city and territory, described as a study very adaptable to changes in society over the years. SIC is composed of Esaú Acosta Pérez, Mauro Gil-Fournier Esquerra and Miguel Jaenicke Fontao, architects licensed by the School of Architecture of Madrid and working together since 2002.
LUIS ÚRCULO
Luis Úrculo, (Madrid 1978). Licensed in the ETSAM Technical School of Senior Architecture, Madrid (December, 2006), Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and Institute of Design in Chicago. In 2004 he founds Motocross and in 2006 he establishes his own studio.
He develops a work of small and indefinite architecture in an opened format. '“I no longer know what architecture is and what an architect should do”. Always interested in all that is peripheral to architecture, the processes, developments and approaches that can be manipulated, sampled and translated into other scales, adapting to the composition of the project, creating new scenes/ experiences / expectations not contemplated previously.
He realizes projects of diverse format among others for Philippe Starck, Sybilla, Davidelfin, AbsolutLab, Zara, Mansilla & Tuñón, La Casa Encendida, Matadero, Rolling Stone, X Bienal of Architecture and Urbanism, etc … where the barriers of the graphical language / architecture / design are questioned as something unique. They work as a whole.
He also works as a teacher with Jaime Hayón for Master of European Design Labs in Istituo Europeo di Design, Madrid.
Works exhibited in the XIth Venice Biennial – Spanish pavilion, Gallery Dama Aflita (Porto), Montevideo Biennial, Fabrica Features (Lisbon), Basel2010, CutLog Art Fair FIAC10 (Paris), Transculturelles des Abattoirs (Casablanca), National Glyptoteque (Athens), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), selected in FreshMadrid! cycle of young architects (exhibiting in Madrid, Bogota, New York and Barcelona), Ink01 (International Illustration Meeting), Arquia/Próxima (Valencia), Re-Fresh Matadero (Madrid), Latin-American Biennial show of Design – Matadero (Madrid), Exhibition JAE (Madrid, New York, Brussels, Stockholm), Galleria Da Cozinha (Porto), COAM Foundation of Madrid in the cycle of Recent Work, selected for PhotoEspaña04 (June2004), Proyecta 04 and Sala Pradillo. Lectures in Madrid, Barcelona, Galicia, Grenoble and Buenos Aires.
Juan Chacón. ZULOARK
Zuloark is an Open Office of Architecture and Urbanism founded in 2001. Since then, the office has worked on liquid and collaborative professional models, building shared responsibility environments in which to share the authorship of projects with as many agents as possible. It currently has an open office in Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, Mexico City and Brussels.
Zuloark's activity, working on different platforms such as El Campo de Cebada or Inteligencias Colectivas, has been internationally recognized with different awards, Golden Nica 2013, XII Spanish Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Award, 2012 Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial Award, Urbanism Award at the IV Arquia Próxima Awards, First Arquia Próxima 2012 Award and UN Best Practice at the 2014 Dubai International Award.
His work has been shown in different cultural institutions around the world, such as the MoMA in NewYork, the Akademie Der Kunste in Berlin, the Lisbon Architecture Triennial or in Matadero Madrid.
ANDRÉS JAQUE
Andrés Jaque, holds a Ph.D. in architecture. He is the founder of the Office for Political Innovation and the Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University, New York.
In 2014 he received the Silver Lion at the 14th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia.
He is the author of award-winning projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies Van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). He has also developed architectural performances as well as installations that question political frameworks through architectural practice; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011); PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavilion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).
Andrés Jaque is a Professor of Advanced Design at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.
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