In image above: Caritas Jozef Karus, ".. Somewhere between a closed building and open space, an old psychiatric hospital pavilion has been partially saved from demolition to offer a peaceful refuge for patients, their families, and people walking in the public park surrounding it. .."Melle, Belgium, 2016, De Vylder Vinck Taillieu Architects (model scale 1:50), Lisbon Architecture Triennale - ECONOMY OF MEANS Exhibition.
How Web Summit 2019 is changing our lives eventually? Those who think of the conference as a simple corporate game changer, had the opportunity to witness Web Summit performing in all different pitches, proving that it can actually be far more than just that. As the President of the Portuguese Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa fervently stated in his WS19 closing ceremony speech, Web Summit is consolidating itself as an institution in the Portuguese capital and is certainly not afraid of addressing every upcoming issue affecting (digital) societies without fear or passion. That is the real decisive moment regarding the event, very prominently accented this year especially.
Web Summit is coming to be all-inclusive, creating the necessary synergies between those who used to be considered direct competitors or having confronted interests. This unexpected association, cooperation and collectivity between all possible stands, such as anti-systemic figures like E. Snowden for instance, digital establishments the likes of Google and the public sector with organisms like E.U. - consists of WS biggest achievement so far: the introduction of new environments where everybody can be potentially part of: commercially, ethically, socially and politically.
After all, it’s not about a game of digital Thrones or Impressions/Clicks anymore but a bare necessity, a need for all parts to work collaboratively towards the same direction, also by making the necessary compromises where needed-even if the name is Amazon or Tipser, Estée Lauder group or Ere Perez, Kering or Coleção.Moda. The exploration of your own identity and of the other party standing opposite you, is a prerequisite of liaising and creating a new condition in the digital world.
Architecture: the notion of constructing a molecule, a space, a home, a place, a town, a system – in order to live well. In view of unprecedented climate, economic and social change, Architecture is (also) being questioned, today. This is where the birth of the Economy of Means exhibition takes place inside the Maat, right at the core of Lisbon’s Architecture Triennale 2019: The Poetics of Reason, (duration of the specific exhibition until 13/1/2020).
“Economy of Means is the DNA of good forms. Architecture consists in defining the good form of a building, using few and carefully surveyed means that allow architects to provide meaning and intelligibility to their buildings”.
Curator Éric Lapierre created a journey through notions, architectural models and testimonies brought to the exhibition by a vast, international group of renown architects and theoreticians of our times, revolving around the central theme of the event: the Economy of Means (see videos bellow), also by exploring the following five conceptual entities, 1. Economy of Repetition: From Typology to the City, 2. Economy of Void: The intention of Space, 3. Economy of Measures: Small is Meaningful, 4. Economy of Material Bulilding: The Whole Earth, 5. the Economy of Procedures: Augmented Architecture.
In pictures bellow, from top to bottom, see some of the projects models, among many other works:
1. House 1219, Palau Solità i Plegamans, Barcelona, Harcquitectes architects (Model scale 1:20).
2. Café de Printemps for Augures (curated by Djamel Klouche), BAP – Biennale d’architecture et de paysage d’île-de-France, Versailles, 2019. Piovenefabi architects (model scale 1:20).
3. Frans Masereel centre, Kasterlee, Belgium, 2019, LIST (Ido Ávissar) and Hideyuki Nakayama architects (model scale 1:20).
4. Railway sleeper house, Miyake island, Japan, 1970, Shin Takasuga architect (model scale 1:33).
5. 05.2.38. Project VIM, 14 logements sociaux évolutifs et participatifs (council flats), Bordeaux, 2017, Atelier Provisoire architects (model scale 1:20).
6. Thalia theater, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008, Barbas Lopes Arquitectos + Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos (model scale 1:100).
7. Church in Alesund, Norway, 2009, Baukuh architects and YellowOffice landscape design (model scale 1:50).
The Economy of Means exhibition is an insatiable, ongoing dialogue about the future of architecture, and the role of the discipline the following decades, based on presently completed architectural attempts but most importantly- aspiring a vision of what’s coming next on building and landscape design. The state of the planet and the state of human consciousness imposes the need for a different, clairvoyant approach, one which also leaves no space for (more of the same or other) mistakes. Hurry up and pay a visit to the glorious MAAT-Central Tejo annex until 13/1/2020, and all of your questions about our current state of habitat will be fascinatedly answered.
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