Saturday, 11/8/2025
The
presentation of the book Atlas Paraíso, hoje (Atlas Paradise, Today), a
publication resulting from the curatorial project that represented Portugal at
the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, will take place on 8 November at 3 pm at
the Sinel de Cordes Palace (Lisbon Architecture Triennale) and will be
accompanied by a debate.
The Atlas
offers a reflection on the contemporary territory through architecture and
landscape architecture developed in Portugal in recent decades. With over 700
images – bringing together architects, landscape architects, photographers and
a public Open Call – the book presents a manifesto (by the curators of the
Portuguese Pavilion), three essays (by essayist António Guerreiro, architect
Maria Manuel Oliveira and artist Nuno da Luz) and interviews with four
landscape architects (Aurora Carapinha, João Gomes da Silva, João Nunes and
Luís Paulo Faria Ribeiro), offering a critical but also optimistic view of
landscapes shaped by often conflicting interests. The book Atlas Paraíso, hoje.
explores different ways of thinking about paradise today, organised around
themes such as: experience, regeneration, leisure, networks, return,
cultivation, simulacrum or fiction – while remaining open to other
interpretations that emerged through the submissions received in the Open Call.
The set of multidisciplinary contributions broadens the themes, contextualises
various meanings of paradise and points to directions for thinking about and
working on the future of the territory and the landscape.
The debate
Paradise, today. seeks to question the meaning that the word paradise can still
have in the cultural construction of the contemporary landscape, at a time when
territorial planning, or the lack thereof, seems to give way to conflicting
interests that jeopardise the environmental balance on a planetary scale.
Authors from different disciplinary areas have been invited to this debate to
discuss what we can still do to counteract the ‘world on fire’.
Speakers: António Guerreiro, Duarte Belo, João Gomes da
Silva, João Nunes, Maria Manuel Oliveira and Paulo Catrica
Moderators: Pedro Bandeira and Catarina Raposo
TECHNICAL INFORMATION ATLAS
Editors PEDRO BANDEIRA (Coord.), PAULA MELÂNEO, LUCA
MARTINUCCI
Assistant Editors CATARINA RAPOSO, NUNO CERA
Authors Essayists ANTONIO GUERREIRO, CATARINA RAPOSO, LUCA
MARTINUCCI, MARIA MANUEL OLIVEIRA, NUNO CERA, NUNO DA LUZ, PAULA MELÂNEO,
PEDRO BANDEIRA
Interviewees AURORA CARAPINHA, JOÃO GOMES DA SILVA, JOÃO
NUNES, LÚIS PAULO FARIA RIBEIRO
Architectural
Works MULTIPLE AUTHORS
Photography
MULTIPLE AUTHORS
Graphic
Design VIVOÉUSÉBIO
Translation
and Revision MIGUEL CORTÊ-REAL
Publication and Revision CIRCO DE IDEIAS
MAGDA SEIFERT, PEDRO BAÍA, CATARINA MATOS, INÊS QUIAIOS
Editorial
Assistant IVO POÇAS MARTINS
Specific
Support MATOSINHOS MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
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images
1st
edition: October 2025
