Changing the Landscape into Valley Areas
JOÃO NUNES
“Landscape inscribes marks in the world that are the result of unique processes which may occur for shorter or longer periods, but which take place only once.”
Inhabiting the public space: Reasoning on four examples
VICTOR BEIRAMAR DINIZ
“Considering two examples of public spaces and two projects in Lisbon, we discuss the transience and permanency of inhabited city spaces at different spatial and temporal scales…”
The Double Condition of a Place: Memory and Future
ROSÁRIO SALEMA
“Over time, various ways of inhabiting the public space are inscribed in the city, like layers of the city’s history that overlap in a palimpsest. The floor inscribes the history of the collective in the city. “
Inhabiting Public Space – Dossier Introduction
BÁRBARA SILVA
“Public space, as the place for human action and interaction, builds a network of collective meanings, in what concerns experiencing and understanding of the city.”
Where light casts no shadow. One wall, one window, five spaces
MARCO SANTINI
“The following thesis investigates the shadow as an element defining space and time in architecture. Darkness does not necessarily mean that a place is not visible but just less visible. By its very nature, the shadow gives a lack of definition to space.”
Water, infrastructure and public space in Lisbon. The reservatório de Campo de Ourique as a case study
THEA CUK
“Using the example of the city of Lisbon, which was supplied by an aqueduct for almost two centuries from the 18th century onwards, it will be examined how such a large infrastructure produced public spaces that are still very present in the cityscape today.”
POWERPOINT: a graphic and audiovisual record of Portuguese dams
EDUARDO CORALES
“This inventory aims to graphically expose the elements that started an electric landscape and that can help to understand the complexities, conflicts and the future of these infrastructures, as well as the development of the territory and its changes.”
From the figurative to the tectonic: Peter Wilson and the drawing process in the Clandeboye project
LUIZ GILBERTO SILVA JUNIOR
“Clandeboye’s drawings graphically illustrate the invention, confidence and constructive empiricism characteristic of the architectural thought that Wilson was developing back then, and had a significant impact on the professional lives of his students.”
STUDENTS LIVING ABROAD: THE ART OF HOME SHARING
This paper focuses on the students’ experience of home sharing abroad, resulting from exchange programs, especially in what concerns new ways of living, from lifestyle to house rules…
DIALECTICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD: TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTS AS A SOCIAL MEDIATOR
The aim of this paper is to examine a few issues concerning social relationships in (and with) the household. In this context, these relationships take on a specific characteristic: they are mediated by objects, especially technological ones…