Living in Lisbon
Living in Lisbon
BIAU BOOK AWARD - XIII Architecture and Urbanism Ibero-American Biennial
Lisbon is being ravaged by an unprecedented housing crisis. The exponential increase of prices, the combined outcome of the financialisation of housing and the lack of continued investment of public policies, means that every Portuguese person is, or knows someone who is, affected by the crisis. There is a restless public debate, but little has been told about the buildings that will give shape to the political strategies that are being conceived and implemented. Which city do we wish to build to face the problem? What can be the role of architecture in this context?
Living in Lisbon concisely presents the conjecture and possibilities of action to think about the building of the city. The book includes an overview of the most charismatic architectures resulting from public housing policies that have been built in Lisbon over the course of 50 years of democracy, describes the main projects that are currently on the table, presents analytical visions of the present situation and freely envisions plans for the future in the form of dialogue, essay or manifesto.
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29,7 x 21 cm, 160 pages
Softcover with dust-jacket
Edição em Português aqui.
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Co-edition CCB, Dinâmia’CET Iscte and Monade
Edition by Marta Sequeira29,7 x 21 cm, 160 pages
ISBN 9789895370566
Versão em Português disponível....
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A groundbreaking work of modernity in Porto, the FEP faculty building is a hidden architectural masterpiece, designed by Alfredo Viana de Lima in the 1960s.
Through photographs especially taken by João Carmo Simões and new edited drawings, this book shows why the project has been, a silent reference for generations of Portuguese architects.
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