Launched 15 years ago, in 2007, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale opened its sixth edition on September 30. As in the past, exhibitions are being staged at the same five venues scattered across town, but where, in 2019, most of the issues tackled were classically architectural—typologies, ornament, the poetics of structure, the creative imagining of space—this time architecture is taken at its broadest, encompassing everything from geography and anthropology to economics and botany, for a theme that is just as broad: Terra, or planet Earth itself.
“How do resource depletion, socio-economic inequalities, and climate alter-actions intertwine at different scales?” ask chief curators Cristina Veríssimo and Diogo Burnay of Lisbon-based office CVDB Arquitectos. By exhibiting case studies from all over the world, they hope to encourage a conversation that would see the “current fragmented linear system of cities-as-machines” transformed into “a holistic model of cities-as-organisms.”
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