The Site of Discourse

International Conference:

Thinking architecture
through publication

Deadlines approaching (extended)

For abstract submission
~~15 June~~ 30 June 2015
For notification of acceptance of abstract
~~30 June~~ 15 July 2015
For registration
~~15 July~~ 15 August 2015
For full paper submission
4 September 20 September, 2015
Conference
28–30, September, 2015

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Exhibition

Thinking Architecture Through Publications

28th Sept — 2nd Oct of 2015 / Museum of Banco de Portugal, Lisbon During the 20th century, magazines of architecture had an important role as platforms for the debate about modernity, and post-modernity in Portugal. Through Construção Moderna launched in 1900; passing through Binário, or Arquitectura reflecting the last decades of the Estado Novo dictatorship; until Architecti and Prototypo closing the millennium, it’s possible to understand, either the optimism about new technologies and life conceptions, as well as the cultural threats brought by novelty in relation to what was being left behind. Through magazines, discourse became part of the architectural...
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Communications

Call

This call concerns the first of a series of three international workshops, which will take place in January 2016 (Rennes 2 University), Spring 2016 (University of Bologna) and Fall 2016 (Paris and Rennes). The aim of these three workshops is to foster scholarship on history of architectural criticism and to facilitate exchanges between scholars involved in this field of research.
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Conference

International Conference The Site of Discourse: Thinking architecture through publication Lisbon, 28–30 September 2015
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Communications

Optimistic Suburbia International Congress

20-22 May 2015 / ISCTE, Lisbon / 14.00 – 16.00 p.m. — The research project The Site of Discourse participated at the International Congress Optimistic Suburbia with the thematic panel "The housing problem in the architecture periodical press: manifest, critic and divulgation". Lead by Rute Figueiredo the panel had the participation of Bruno Parente (DATMC ISCTE-IUL); Rui Seco (DA/UC); João Silva (FAUP); Luciane Scottá (FAUP) and Daniela Simões (IHA/FCSH-UNL). The Professor Margarida Acciaiuoli was one of the Keynote Speakers.
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Debate — Agents

The editor’s place in the discourse on architecture

6 May 2015 / Ordem dos Arquitectos, Lisboa / 6 p.m. — This session will seek to understand how the acts of editing and projecting cross over, interact and produce each other, focusing the debate on the Editor as a key agent in this field. Specifically, the session will look at: How far can the Editor’s position go in defining the priorities and values that inform professional practice? What criteria underlie their editorial policies? What arguments support their choices when attributing value or denying it by exclusion? What is their relationship with critics, architects and other agents...
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Debate — Cover|Themes

What became of the Star System in Architecture?

28 April 2015 / Ordem dos Arquitectos, Lisboa / 6 p.m. — Taking Cassiano Branco as a case in point, this session opens up the debate on the protagonism of architects in specialized magazines and mainstream periodicals, and how their auctorial personality is explored in these media.
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Architecture as seen by architects

23 April 2015 / FCSH, Lisbon / 6 p.m — This session aims to put the architect at the center of the debate and understand the position that he occupies in the definition of such narrative, and to what extent this relationship determines the subsequent readings.
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Debate — Agents

Young architectural editors – new discourse bases

21 April 2015 / Lisboa, Ordem dos Arquitectos / 10 p.m. — This session will bring together young editors with the purpose of debating the contemporary discourse and, in particular: relations between criticism and the new editorial tools; relations between a broader debate and discourse fragmentation; today’s architectural challenges.
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Debate — Agents

The Agents of Criticism

18 March 2015 / Biblioteca da Ordem dos Arquitectos SRS, Lisbon / 6 p.m. — Within this framework, the panel will seek to determine the degree of specificity in architectural criticism compared to that in other areas (literature, painting, sculpture, cinema).
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Open Class

Concepts and discourses of South American architecture

13 March 2015 / Classroom B303, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon / 10 a.m. — Open class with Hugo Segawa
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Vitruvius Mozambicanus

12 March 2015 / Ordem dos Arquitectos, Lisbon / 6 p.m. — The debate builds on the fact that Portuguese architecture kept specially close links with other architectural expressions come from outside Europe – Brazil, the South-American continent generally, Africa, India and Oceania. This fact serves as a starting point to reflect on the coverage and reception that the latter had in architectural periodicals both in Portugal and in the rest of Europe. The aim is to consider the relevance that non-European architecture had in such publications and the kind of discourse that accompanied its dissemination over time.
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VHS Architecture Lisbon, 1980s: The Post-Modernism Symposia

10 April 2015 / Auditório, MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda, Lisboa / 10 a.m. — Between 1982 and 1986, the Department of Architecture at Escola Superior de Belas Artes (ESBAL) organized a series of four international symposia devoted to the advent of post-modernism. This debate will bring these documents to the public for the first time with the aim of fostering a debate on the contents, reception and context of these discourses within the framework of Portuguese architecture.
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Debate — Agents

Architecture in Review. Portuguese architectural magazines from a graphic design perspective

26 February 2015 / Galeria Quadra. Matosinhos / 6 p.m. — In this session we will debate the intersections between architecture, graphic design and visual culture. We will also analyse the importance of architectural magazines in the history of Portuguese design.
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Exhibition

Architecture in Review

26 Feb—10 Apr 2015 / Galeria Quadra, Matosinhos — The discoursivity of the project is developed in the space of periodical publications, in a particular relationship between publishing and graphic design in which are played decisions that materialize specific narratives on architecture, its disciplinary discourse your critical discourse and its formal representation. The present exhibition, steams from the mapping work in progress and function as an essay for a more expressive synthesis in the final exhibition already planed
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Architecture as seen by non architects

25 February 2015 / Biblioteca da Ordem dos Arquitectos SRS, Lisbon / 6 p.m. —This session aims at reopening the debate on the disciplinary field of Architecture, questioning its boundaries and opening up to points of view "external" to it.
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Open Class

Cidade e revolução: Operações SAAL

24 April / Auditorium 4, Building 4, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon / 10:30–12:30 a.m. — Open Class with José António Bandeirinha
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Exhibition

The 25th of April’s Revolution in the architectural magazines

15 April 2014 / ISCTE, Lisbon — A show made of big printouts of the covers and editorials of the magazines dedicated to publishing Portuguese architecture in the context of April’s revolution. Exhibited in the atrium of ISCTE.
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Debate

Revolution, Architecture and Society. Challenging the chronology.

23 March 2014 / Clube Português de Artes e Ideias, Lisbon / 6 p.m. — In this session we would like to challenge the chronology, to signal the cultural shock and to enunciate the changes promoted by the revolution. We would like to discuss how far does the key of the imagination of a new world goes? This in regards to the way of thinking and making architecture. Was it too late in 1977? Was it already another time the one of 1984?
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Debate

The Site of Discourse — is it architecture?

12 December 2013 / Livraria Ler Devagar, LX Factory, Lisbon / 5:30 p.m. — To what extent could the “site” of discourse be regarded as an architectural “site”? And, under a reversed perspective: are the architectural “site” limits redrawn, fixed or transgressed by the “site” of the discourse?