“Building Stories” at Centro Cultural de Bélem
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Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon presents “Building Stories” highlighting the hidden facts of building sites, with three installations by Maio, de vylder vinck taillieu, and Ricardo Bak Gordon.“Building Stories” focuses on what, in architecture, is“Building Stories” at Centro Cultural de Bélem
Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon presents “Building Stories” highlighting the hidden facts of building sites, with three installations by Maio, de vylder vinck taillieu, and Ricardo Bak Gordon.“Building Stories” focuses on what, in architecture, is not obvious at first glance: it is an exhibition on how architecture is produced and constructed. Although the construction process is only one of the aspects of the building, it is used as a leitmotif of this exhibition, allowing viewers to understand the architecture in its complex globality.Curated by Amelia Brandão Costa and Rodrigo da Costa Lima, “Building Stories” oscillates between the territorial scale and the individual dimension, following the architect's imagination. Completed projects, turning points, or simple notes and desires from the ateliers of architecture of vylder vinck taillieu, Maio, and Ricardo Bak Gordon are presented as living expressions of a wider universe.“In this way, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between architects who — despite each having their own ideas, methods, and formal expression — share architecture as a common territory, where they weave their unique approaches,” states the museum.The exhibition aims to highlight the unorthodox beauty of architecture’s rawness and intends to illustrate the behind-the-scenes of a building under construction by focusing on architectural fragments and familiar sensations, such as the smell of fresh cement or the sound of heavy machinery.Centro Cultural de Belem features a center for temporary exhibitions, which since 2006 has housed the Berardo Museum, a module with multipurpose rooms, an auditorium for symphonic music and opera and one more for performing arts, and a meeting center that hosted the Portuguese presidency of the European Union in 1992. This building, signed by architects Vittorio Gregotti (Italy) and Manuel Salgado (Portugal), today has an intense cultural program and an important activity as a Meeting Center. It has been classified since 2002 as a monument of public interest.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more