Carpintarias de São Lázaro

Carpintarias de São Lázaro – Cultural Center is the concretization of the use of the former Carpintarias de São Lázaro facilities, an industrial project from the 1920s, for the development, in the 21st century, of a contemporary cultural project that aims to bring an ambitious and avant-garde approach to the city of Lisbon.

The Cultural and Recreational Association of Carpintarias de São Lázaro, a private non-profit organization, was created in 2014. Its founders were behind the proposal submitted to the Lisbon City Council, which won the international public contest for the building concession as “an exclusive lease for the development of an integrated cultural project, open to public enjoyment”.

This concession was granted for 30 years, and the association, in addition to the lease, is fully responsible for carrying out the building adaptation works as well as the implementation and development of the Cultural Center. The project went through several phases in its beginning that determined the way in which the conditions were created for its implementation without distorting the vision or limiting the ambition with which the project had been conceived.

In 2017, preserving this commitment to the city, Carpintarias opened its doors to the public for the first time, presenting two visual arts exhibitions included in Lisbon 2017, Ibero-American Capital of Culture, in partnership with Lisbon City Council, which marked the cultural panorama of the City that year.

In 2018, the first phase of works to adapt the building to its new vocation was carried out, which allowed the Cultural Center to be put into service.

This definitive reopening took place in January 2019, and Carpintarias de São Lázaro has been confirming its position ever since, as a creative, innovative project, able to offer unprecedented programming in the city and country’s panorama.

The next phases of project development are planned for the years 2021-2022 and they will enhance conditions for welcoming the public, as well as help to strengthen the Cultural Center’s financial sustainability, trying to counteract in this way the tendency towards financial fragility that usually characterizes the so-called independently run projects and cultural spaces.

Garagem Sul CCB

Garagem Sul / Architecture Exhibitions is a place where ideas and practices for transforming the built environment are presented. Based on temporary exhibitions, conferences, workshops and other public programmes, contemporary hypotheses with an impact on ecosystems and society are debated. The projects and works are exhibited with disciplinary rigour and communicated to non-specialist audiences. Garagem Sul thus presenting itself as a centre for architecture, opening the way for shared responsibility in the construction of the habitats of the future.

ISCTE

The Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon was founded in 1972 as one of Portugal’s first modern universities, with the central aim of studying labour and social dynamics in a rapidly changing world. Since its establishment, the university has expanded its disciplinary reach into four schools: Iscte Business School, the School of Sociology and Public Policy, the School of Technology and Architecture and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
On campus, students find not only a robust intellectual tradition, with mentorship from teaching staff involved in cutting-edge research, but also a vibrant, multicultural environment. Of the approximately 10 000 students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate programs, nearly 20% are international, coming from 80 different countries.
Furthermore, the university is actively engaged in collaborative projects, networks and partnerships around the world, including a range of educational, training and research programs supported by the European Union. Through its commitment to internationalization, innovative research and education aligned with professional standards, Iscte prepares its students for competitive careers and thoughtful lives in the 21st century.

Barbas Lopes

Barbas Lopes Arquitectos established their practice in 2006. Realised projects or under development include public and private buildings, single-family housing, exhibition designs, and interiors. The practice is also engaged in collaborations with architects such as Peter Märkli, Promontório Architects, Manuel Aires Mateus and Gonçalo Byrne.
Their work was nominated for Icon Awards 2012, Designs of the Year 2013 and Mies van der Rohe 2013.
They were Azrieli Visiting Critics in Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Patrícia Barbas (Luanda, 1971) Graduated in Architecture at FAUTL, Lisbon. Collaborated with Aires Mateus, João Pedro Falcão de Campos and Atelier Pedro Silva Dias (Design). Project coordinator for Gonçalo Byrne (1998-2000) and Promontório Architects in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (2005-2006). Guest Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa (2013, 2015-2016). Jury member of FAD Awards 2016.
Diogo Seixas Lopes (Lisbon, 1972-2016) Graduated in Architecture at FAUTL, Lisbon. Doctorate from ETH Zurich. Guest Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa (2013, 2015-2016) and DARQ.FCTUC (2011-2013). He was Director of the magazine Prototypo, Director and Chief Curator with André Tavares of JA-Jornal dos Arquitectos and Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2016. His publications include Cimêncio (Fenda Edições, 2001) with Nuno Cera and the book Melancholy and Architecture: On Aldo Rossi (Park Books, 2015). Posthumously, it was published the portuguese version of the book (Orfeu Negro, 2016) and awarded with the second prize of AICA 2016.

Baukunst

Combining art and technology, dialoguing and interplaying various forms of knowledge, BAUKUNST is committed to explore architecture as a medium with which both to think about building (BAU) and build ways of thinking (KUNST).
Studies in Architecture at ISA St-Luc Tournai, Belgium and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (diploma with Prof. E. Zenghelis in 1999). He was a design architect at Herzog & de Meuron, Basel between 2000 and 2003 and at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam until 2001. Adrien Verschuere is the co-founder of the architecture firm Made in, Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2010, he established BAUKUNST in Brussels and from 2017 in Lausanne.
Adrien Verschuere is regularly invited as guest critic or lecturer in various institutions, among others : the FAUP Porto, IRGE Universität Stuttgart, Berlage Institute Rotterdam, USI Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, Kyoto Design Lab, and ETH Zürich.
From 2019, Adrien Verschuere is Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

José Neves

José Neves, born in Lisbon, in December 27th, 1963, graduated from Architecture in Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, in 1986. He worked with Duarte Cabral de Mello and Maria Manuel Godinho de Almeida from 1986 until 1990 and participated in several projects with Vítor Figueiredo. In 1991 he opened his own practice.
He teaches Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL, since 2013, and taught Architecture and Drawing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (1988-2012), at the Department of Architecture of the Autónoma University of Lisbon (1998-2000) and at the Department of Architecture of the Lusíada University (1990-1991).
His work has been distinguished with several awards, among which are the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Award for Architecture 2014, the SECIL Architecture Award 2012, the VALMOR Prize 2011 or the Honourable Mention of the VASCO VILALVA Prize for Heritage Renovation and Restoration 2014, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Adrien Verschuere

Studies in Architecture at ISA St-Luc Tournai, Belgium and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (diploma with Prof. E. Zenghelis in 1999). He was a design architect at Herzog & de Meuron, Basel between 2000 and 2003 and at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture – Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam until 2001. Adrien Verschuere is the co-founder of the architecture firm Made in, Geneva, Switzerland.
In 2010, he established BAUKUNST in Brussels and from 2017 in Lausanne.
Adrien Verschuere is regularly invited as guest critic or lecturer in various institutions, among others : the FAUP Porto, IRGE Universität Stuttgart, Berlage Institute Rotterdam, USI Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, Kyoto Design Lab, and ETH Zürich.
From 2019, Adrien Verschuere is Visiting Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

José Neves

José Neves, born in Lisbon, in December 27th, 1963, graduated from Architecture in Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon, in 1986. He worked with Duarte Cabral de Mello and Maria Manuel Godinho de Almeida from 1986 until 1990 and participated in several projects with Vítor Figueiredo. In 1991 he opened his own practice.
He teaches Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of ISCTE-IUL, since 2013, and taught Architecture and Drawing at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon (1988-2012), at the Department of Architecture of the Autónoma University of Lisbon (1998-2000) and at the Department of Architecture of the Lusíada University (1990-1991).
His work has been distinguished with several awards, among which are the AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Award for Architecture 2014, the SECIL Architecture Award 2012, the VALMOR Prize 2011 or the Honourable Mention of the VASCO VILALVA Prize for Heritage Renovation and Restoration 2014, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Patrícia Barbas

Luanda, 1971. Graduated in Architecture at FAUTL, Lisbon.
Collaborated with Aires Mateus, João Pedro Falcão de Campos and Atelier Pedro Silva Dias (Design). Project coordinator for Gonçalo Byrne (1998-2000) and Promontório Architects in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil (2005-2006).
Guest Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa (2013, 2015-2016). Jury member of FAD Awards 2016.
Barbas Lopes Arquitectos established their practice in 2006. Realised projects or under development include public and private buildings, single-family housing, exhibition designs, and interiors. The practice is also engaged in collaborations with architects such as Peter Märkli, Promontório Architects, Manuel Aires Mateus and Gonçalo Byrne. Their work was nominated for Icon Awards 2012, Designs of the Year 2013 and Mies van der Rohe 2013. They were Azrieli Visiting Critics in Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Paulo Tormenta Pinto

Paulo Tormenta Pinto (Lisbon, 1970), began his teaching activity in 1997, and is currently a Full Professor at ISCTE, in the area of Architecture. His doctoral thesis “Arquitetura e Artifício – Cassiano Branco 1897-1970” was published in 3 editions (Caleidoscópio 2007, 2015 and 2020). As a researcher, he has participated and coordinated several projects related to architectural culture, highlighting, as a responsible researcher, the projects “The Critical Monumentality of Álvaro Siza” and “The Grand Projects – Architectural and urbanistic operations after the 1998 Lisbon World Exposition” , both funded by the FCT. He held several positions in the academic structure of ISCTE, namely as director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism and of the Research Center on Socio-Economic Change and Territory – (Dinamia’CET-ISCTE). He was the godfather of the Doctor Honoris Causa title, given by ISCTE to Nuno Portas , in 2020. His work as an architect has been published and awarded several times (IHRU Award 2002, IHRU Award 2012, and the Teotónio Pereira Award 2016 – honorable mention). In 2022 his work was nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Awardand was a finalist in the FAD Awards. Also in 2022 he received the National Architecture Award-FORMA 2022, attributed to the project “Accessible Path to the Estrela Basilica”, in Lisbon.

EPFL

EPFL is Europe’s most cosmopolitan technical university. It welcomes students, professors and collaborators of more than 120 nationalities. EPFL has both a Swiss and international vocation and focuses on three missions: teaching, research and innovation.
EPFL collaborates with an important network of partners, including other universities and colleges, secondary schools and gymnasiums, industry and the economy, political circles and the general public, with the aim of having a real impact on society.

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