Garagem Sul at Centro Cultural de Belém—the Lisbon gallery dedicated to architecture—will open the exhibition At Home: Projects for Contemporary Housing, on 10 February. Originally presented at the MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts collection in Rome, the show is an invitation to reflect on the houses we live in. How do today’s architects design our homes and how have notions of housing changed over the last generation? This exhibition analyses the investigations and answers to these questions through the work of several architects.
Based on the MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts collection in Rome, the exhibition moves from small-scale shelters to large collective housing projects, revealing complex and hybrid experiences that bear witness to the new relationship between individuals and communities. The exhibition takes pairs of projects as its starting point, in which original materials from the archive of Italian architects provide a revealing counterpoint for works of contemporary architects. In Lisbon, the pairs presented in Rome are complemented by Portuguese examples, which expand the meaning and readings arising from the materials presented.
