Dates / Schedules
28 September 2021 to 30 January 2022
Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm
Architects At Play is the result of a research process into play and the imagination, built experiments and mythological narratives. The exhibition is essentially centred on the idea of ‘Creating Worlds’. It attempts to bring together two characters: the architect and the child. Children’s games have always been a breeding ground for the invention of ‘Worlds’. Likewise, architects also imagine new ‘Worlds’. These worlds and the mechanisms of invention they rely upon constitute the core of the exhibition,which touches on themes as varied as childhood and education, urban planning, public space, history, architecture, art and creativity—in order to trace the history of imaginary as well as imagined ‘Worlds’. Each one of us is a playful architect. From the solitary hut to the cosmopolitan ark, we build worlds which we inhabits or co-inhabits. The world of play is located in the mysterious interval that connects our subjectivities to external reality. It sometimes happens that architectures crystallize in this ephemeral space, becoming for a while the stage of our lives, the horizon of our habits. This power of imagination is at the heart of the curatorial system in which childhood playgrounds and those of architects, artists and designers meet.
Curator David Malaud
Lisbon iteration Nikolaus Hirsch, Cedric Libert, André Tavares, Ivo Poças Martins
Photo © Pierre Antoine
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Exhibition Reviews:
Lynne Myers, «’architects at play’ exhibition shows the similar ways children and architects create new worlds» in designboom, 19 October 2021
Osman Can Yerebakan, «An Exhibition in Lisbon Examines the Relationship Between Design and Play» in Metropolis Magazine, 19 October 2021
John Hill, «A World of Play» in world-architects.com, 22 October 2021
Support
Gyptec
Paularte
Perfisa
Robbialac
Exhibition Partners
CIVA
José Marques da Silva Foundation Institute
Drawing Matter
Museu da Marioneta
Museu do Brinquedo Português
CCB/Garagem Sul Partners
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa
Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa
Livraria A+A
Ordem dos Arquitetos
Lisbon Architecture Triennale
contacts
garagemsul@ccb.pt
Prices and Discounts
Discounts
50% students
50% members of Portuguese Association of Architects
50% over 65 years old
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Free Entry
Cartão CCB
Under 18 years old
Unemployed
Free entry on the 1st Sunday of every month to all visitors
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