STUDY TRIP – SEVILLA DAU ROUTES 2022
PhD OPENING CLASS: “Archives”, by Professor Mário Kruger
We welcome our 2021-22 PhD students in Architecture at the Lusófona University of Lisbon and Porto, with an Inaugural Lecture given by Professor Mário Kruger.
The class will deal with the theme of “Archives”.
Data
Friday
3 pm
Zoom room: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/86393359376
The class is open to interested parties.
Session #4 of the open class cycle, “Childhood Architecture: contemporary practices”
Session #4 of the open class cycle, “Childhood Architecture: contemporary practices”, integrated in the Architecture I curricular unit.
Date
Thursday
January 6, 2022
2:00 pm
SASTUDIO – Tiago Sá
Pedro Maurício Borges (Darq_UC) Arquitecturas para um Parque
The Department of Architecture and Urbanism, Universidade Lusófona invites you to the conference of Pedro Maurício Borges (Darq_UC)
Architectures for a Park
Date
November 30th
5pm
Auditorium S
Bunker Atlantis: Knowing to preserve Plan Barron of Defense of Lisbon and Setúbal
Bunker Atlantis: Knowing to preserve Plan Barron of Defense of Lisbon and Setúbal
By Maria Rita Pais
Conference Cycle FORMA
Date
1st of December
18:30
Sala G.2.3.2
Sinopse
The transfer of bases in Azores to England, in 1943, changes the course of Portuguese armament and to ensure the security of the new “allied” country, the War Office establishes a joint defense plan for the continent. This “English phase” revives a 1938 project, Plan Barron (PB) for the defense of Lisbon and Setúbal, designed by the WO with the Washington Naval Treaty in mind, which Portugal had signed in 1922.
The set draws a geography of surveillance and counter-bombing in the Tagus and Sado basins with eight fixed, secret, camouflaged and fortified batteries. The PB set constitutes what Gilbert Simondon calls a techno-aesthetic work, “entirely successful and beautiful” (Simondon, 1992, p.255).
The project takes homage to Reyner Banham in Concrete Atlantis, as Bunker Atlantis also investigates “abandoned installations (…) barely architecture at all” (1989, p.2), but above all recalls its reference to an imaginary island in the middle of the Atlantic, from Francis Bacon “Great Atlantis”. Lisbon is the only European capital that confronts the Atlantic, a plaza in the big ocean that has always needed particular defense. So, Bunker Atlantis proposes to investigate, for the first time after its declassification (1998 to 2004), the PB, a structure with about 575,500 m2 of total area divided by eight batteries spread along the Lisbon coast. Each battery contains a set of large dimensioned bunkers to support long-range artillery pieces. Five are abandoned, one partially demolished and two have cultural use in other military areas. The variety of its forms is consistent with the diversity of the territories where they are located, from the natural park of Arrábida and Fonte da Telha to the densely populated Lisbon suburbs.
