Dates / Schedules
From 6 May to 2 August 2015 Opening 5 May, at 7pm
Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 6pm
Landscape as Architecture is an exhibition based on the collaborations between the architects Paulo David (b. Funchal, 1959) and João Gomes da Silva (b. Lisbon, 1962) and seeks to explore the different ways in which the landscape is developed as a place that is constructed by architecture. The spontaneous place, created by time and by unforeseeable earthly forces, is contrasted with another kind of place originating in human ingenuity and man’s capacity to make landscapes, manufacture time and give rise to the new. Through a significant group of architectural gestures, this exhibition explores the way in which the landscape becomes the setting for the human confrontation with nature (the place of our biography) and how it expresses the human need to order the world and, simultaneously, the desire to build the future (the human condition of giving birth).
Curator Nuno Crespo
This exhibition is developed over two stages: on the one hand, it proposes for the first time, the presentation of and reflection on the work of two architects who are fundamental for understanding Portuguese architectural culture. It is not a question of presenting their works exhaustively and chronologically, but instead, based on the singularity and pertinence (material, formal, reflexive and procedural) of some of their projects, to characterise the lines of force and thought generated by those architectural practices. On the other hand, it is also intended that this exhibition should become a platform for debate and reflection on such important concepts as landscape, construction, history, biography and desire in their relationship with the different ways of exercising contemporary architecture.
Supports
Atelier PD Arquitetos
Betão e Taipa
Câmara Municipal da Calheta
Câmara Municipal de Câmara de Lobos
Câmara Municipal do Funchal
CAV – Centro de Artes Visuais
Ecobasalto
FAF – Produtos siderúrgicos, S.A.
Francisco Soares, Lda.
Francisco Xavier de Castro, Lda
Manuel Gaspar
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência
Norigem
Secil
Production
CCB/Garagem Sul
contacts
garagemsul@ccb.pt
213 612 614/5
Prices and Discounts
Discounts
50% students
50% Portuguese Architects’ Association
50% over 65 years old
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FREE ENTRY
Cartão Amigo CCB
Under 18 years old
Unemployed