The speed of utopia: a Visual Essay.
Duarte Belo
“We walk through the streets of any Portuguese city. There are buildings from various historical eras. We take photographs of space and time. It is not easy to interpret the reality.”
Lisbon: Resilience and Vulnerability. Reflections on the post-25 April 1974 city. Introduction to the dossier.
RICARDO CARVALHO & INÊS LOBO
“The city is the place where culture and technology, man and nature, come together to create a possibility for the common good. Nowadays, it is a site of potential and confrontation, of cohesion and protection, but also of instability and exclusion. What always prevails is its enormous potential and capacity for improvement.”
The post-25 April city. A conversation with geographers Margarida Pereira and Gonçalo Antunes
FILIPA RAMALHETE, MARGARIDA PEREIRA & GONÇALO ANTUNES
“Urbanisation and the accompanying intensification of economic extraction models, changes in family dynamics and social norms and widespread uncertainties surrounding housing, employment and lifestyle choices are global phenomena, particularly pronounced in several European countries.”
City and Society. Reflections and episodes of urban change in 50 years of democracy in Portugal
ANA BRANDÃO
“Based on the link between city and society, the text goes through the profound changes that took place during the democratic period, following the different urban policies designed and implemented at each moment and the dynamics of territorial transformation that took place due to or despite the existing policies.”
My space in our home: young people strategies to access housing in Lisboa
MARIA ASSUNÇAO GATO & FILIPA RAMALHETE
“Difficulties in accessing housing are one of the primary challenges faced by young adults during transitional phases in their lives, leading to subsequent instability.”
Housing in Social Practices of The Religious Communities: Experience of Migration and Interaction in the (Sub)Urban Environment
NADEŽDA PAZUHINA
“The concept of housing could be helpful to understand the interaction and, at the same time, a fusion of theological and social dimensions in the everyday religious practices.”
Gimme Shelter: the home during the COVID19 lockdown in Mexico City
MARÍA MORENO CARRANCO
“The significance of these stories lies in the potential to construct various versions of the history of how homes and cities were experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown.”
Persistent structures of public housing in the face of changing dwelling practices. A case study of Vienna’s municipal housing stock
ANA ROGOJANU
“Housing systems around the world encounter a range of challenges, such as housing affordability, changes in household composition and lifestyles, or ecological transformation.”
Uncertainties about housing and ways of living
MARIA ASSUNÇÃO GATO
“Urbanisation and the accompanying intensification of economic extraction models, changes in family dynamics and social norms and widespread uncertainties surrounding housing, employment and lifestyle choices are global phenomena, particularly pronounced in several European countries.”
When architects stopped wearing neckties. Towards the informal. Lino Gaspar House, Caxias, Portugal (1953-1955)
RICARDO ABOIM INGLEZ
“Designed and built at a time when Portugal was partly rejecting the modernity experienced in Europe and North-America, Lino Gaspar House represents the rare encounter between two parties, clients and architect”