Debate and opening of the exhibition that mark the end of the research project “Inhabiting Siza“, in the framework of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale.

Inhabiting Siza

Debate:
Inhabiting Siza and the geographies of Architecture, 5PM

Exposição:
Inhabiting Siza: architecture as seen by its residents, 7PM (10 September — 3 November)

The Inhabiting Siza research project, coordinated by Eduardo Ascensão (CEG-IGOT), Paulo Catrica (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and André Carmo (CICS.NOVA — University of Évora), culminates with the exhibition Inhabiting Siza: architecture as seen by its residents, as part of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. The opening is scheduled for 7pm on 10 September.

The exhibition looks at the way residents of housing designed by Álvaro Siza experience, and interact with, their apartments’ spatial layout, the buildings’ public spaces and housing micro-technologies as well as their buildings’ social status as tourist attractions in their everyday life. It aims to cover the research gap on Siza’s architecture related to the lack of knowledge on residents’ reception and appropriation of his architecture. It is focussed on three sites situated across the social and wealth spectrum, from the low-income population for whom the Bouça estate in Porto was originally designed, to the low-to-middle income population of Malagueira in Évora, through to the very high-income population of Terraços de Bragança in Lisbon. The research used an ethnographic approach, with in-depth interviews, ethnographic ‘house visits’ and elicitation of ‘residents in action with his/her home’ through video and photography sessions.

Before the opening of the exhibition, at 5pm, there will be a debate — Inhabiting Siza and the geographies of Architecture. It will begin with interventions by Eduardo Ascensão (CEG-IGOT), Ana Catarina Costa (CEG-IGOT / FAUP), Ricardo Agarez (Iscte-IUL), and Loretta Lees (Boston University, via online). This will be followed by the lecture “Doing words with things: The politics and poetics of Elemental’s social housing schemes”, by Ignacio Farías (Humboldt University).

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