31 maggio - 31 luglio 2007, Lisboa
The International Architecture Triennale of Lisbon 2007 aims to become a ‘Festival’ of architecture, participated by the local community and able to attract an international audience. In this initiative by the Architects’Guild – South Region Section, where some of the most relevant authors and thinkers of today’s world will interact, Portuguese Architecture will be pretext for an important global forum dedicated to the reflection, debate, prospecting and display of Architecture, from the building to the city and territory planning. […] The Lisbon Triennale 2007 will have its head office at the Portugal Pavilion, designed by Álvaro Siza Vieira. Built in 1998, the Pavilion is located at the centre of today’s Parque das Nações, in the eastern part of Lisbon, whose territory, used in the past for heavy industry, was rehabilitated for the International Exhibition of Lisbon (Expo 98). […] The 1st edition of the Triennale will have as theme “Urban Voids”, focusing on rarefaction or urban rupture phenomena, generated by processes of decay and physical and social degradation in city areas. These are expectant spaces, more or less abandoned, more or less limited at the heart of the traditional city, or more or less undefined at the diffuse peripheries. They are spots of “non-city”, absent places, ignored or not used anymore, aliens or survivors to any territorystructuring systems. In many cities of the world, these “Urban Voids” are under questioning and debate. New intervention concepts and strategies, models for functionality and management are being planned, as well as platforms for public/private interaction. […] Considering this setting, the Lisbon Triennale intends to analyse, debate and contrive solutions, suggestions, means and instruments for intervention. All the actors will have a voice at the forum’s stages: architects, city planners, landscape architects, and other authors and thinkers, as well as administration entities, investors, promoters and building companies involved with the transformations projected for the Lisbon and Oporto metropolises. Info e programma: tel +351 21 3241156 e-mail: trienal.comunicacao@oasrs.org; www.trienaldelisboa.com