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"When architecture and urban design project their desire onto a (…) a terrain vague, they seem incapable of doing anything other than introducing violent transformations, changing estrangement into citizenship, and striving at all costs to dissolve the uncontaminated magic of the obsolete into the realism of efficacy. (…) Today, intervention in the existing city, in its residual spaces, in its folded interstices can no longer be either comfortable or efficacious in the manner postulated by the modern movement's efficient model of the enlightened tradition. How can architecture act in the terrain vague without becoming an aggressive instrument of power and abstract reason? Undoubtedly, through attention to continuity: not the continuity of the planned, efficient, and legitimized city, but of the flows, the energies, the rhythms established by the passing of time and the loss of limits... we should treat the residual city with a contradictory complicity that will not shatter the elements that maintain its continuity in time and space." Terrain Vague, Sola Morales, 1995

The conversation with Laurent Beaudouin, architect and professor at the École d’Architecture de Paris Val de Seine, and Francis Rambert, architect and director of the Cité de L’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, will take place next Wednesday, July 11, at 6:30 PM. Admission is free.

"Still Cabanon" represents a challenge issued to 27 contributors from various disciplines to conceive and design an intimate shelter for themselves, serving as a space to develop their reflections on 21st-century living.

ALA and AOR are the guest speakers for this conference, taking place on April 11, 2018, at the Palácio Sinel de Cordes, the headquarters of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Both architecture firms operate within the Finnish context, a country with a very high Human Development Index (HDI), currently ranked 23rd globally. Erkko Aarti, founding partner, will present the work of AOR Architects, while Antti Nousjoki will showcase projects by ALA Architects. The discussion will be moderated by Paula Melâneo, editor-in-chief of J—A Jornal Arquitectos.

Influence: Online Platforms / Please Share!

ISCTE-IUL is organizing an important initiative titled "Diving into the South of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira" (a Portuguese architect), which will take place on June 4, 5, and 6, 2018. The event will consist of a trip bringing together researchers, professionals, and architecture students to reflect on the ways of designing, building, teaching, and experiencing the architecture of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira. This year, which coincides with his passing at the age of 86, we intend to revisit a significant collection of the architect's works located south of Lisbon. Alongside the visits, reflections, and testimonies from collaborators who participated in the various projects, the goal is to revive the memory of Raúl Hestnes Ferreira's unique and transcultural journey between Portugal, Finland, and the United States.

To celebrate its 7th anniversary, the publisher and publication AMAG is offering a 50% promotional discount to all its subscribers on the online purchase of the AAICO FULL TICKET, which grants access to a workshop, attendance at all conferences, the AAICO kit, and a choice of one issue of AMAG magazine.

Francisco Nogueira will open the exhibition "Man Made" at the Art Room in Lisbon next Thursday, June 21, from 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM.

To celebrate its 7th anniversary, the publisher and magazine AMAG is organizing and producing the AAICO | International Congress of Architecture and Art, which will take place in the Greater Porto area during the first week of September, from the 3rd to the 8th.

In this summer architecture workshop for students, participants will reside at the Valley House, a project by our firm located near Vieira do Minho in northern Portugal.

Exhibition organized at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), within the Integrated Master's in Architecture program of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Act 4 of Please Share! /Indoor, a program curated by Roberto Cremascoli, requires paid registration and is subject to availability. The complete list of participants will be announced very soon.

The MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon is launching its 2018 program with two exhibitions: Supergood – Dialogues with Ernesto de Sousa and Welcome to the City of Fear, which address the work of Ernesto de Sousa and the financial crisis that affected New York in the 1970s, respectively.

Architects Series: Mode(s) of (R)existing
Session VI. Women | Architecture | RE:EVOLUTION

The realization and life of cities are reflections of the power and decision-making structures of the societies that sustain them. Given this, in a patriarchal society, can we expect women to have effective space, voice, and agency in the decisions that shape their daily lives?

"For us a book is a small building" is the title of the exhibition Fernanda Fragateiro is presenting at Galeria BAGINSKI. The title draws on a quote by British architect Alison Smithson that holds significant meaning within Fragateiro’s body of work, effectively serving as a synthesis of her artistic practice. The exhibition focuses on Robin Hood Gardens, an iconic social housing project designed by Alison and Peter Smithson, whose recent demolition—condemned by architects, artists, and critics—represents the erasure of a period defined by significant social policies in the United Kingdom.

Cities, Architecture, and Gender: Reconstruction Processes in Post-War Contexts.

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Registration for the "Lugar de Partilha" Self-Construction Laboratory at the Conjunto Habitacional da Guarda in Perafita, Matosinhos, is open until July 16. The program, which will host 10 participants, will take place from July 28 to August 10.