Lisbon Imagines the New European Bauhaus

April 5th to 29th Wednesday to Monday, 11:00-19:00
Sala do Risco - Rua do Arsenal, 21
Free Entry

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The investment in Municipal Works, that the Lisboa City Council is undertaking, is guided by the desire to ensure a city based on the promotion of innovation, culture, and a dignified social state, with the commitment to pursue the goal of making a future of exponential growth sustainable, where no one is left behind.

The parameters that a more beautiful, sustainable, and humane society demands of us at this moment are clear: to associate culture and nature, art and technology to respond to the challenges of the 21st century. What could this New European Bauhaus be? In response, the Lisboa City Council sought to promote a new architectural expression, whose guiding principles inspire a modern attitude in communities.

In line with this call from European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen, the Lisboa City Council launched 12 public design competitions between 2022 and 2023, urging designers to imagine what a Wave of Renovation of buildings and the city could comply with the European Green Deal, in a movement where culture and science are inseparable and where technology and art are at the service of people. The result of these competitions is what visitors can see in the exhibition “Lisbon Imagines the New European Bauhaus”: 177 proposals for Architecture and City on what Lisbon can be, opening the discussion to the entire society.

Inaugurating this traveling exhibition in Baixa Pombalina is not a coincidence. It is the reactivation of the echoes of modernity that were born in Europe, in Lisbon, following the 1755 earthquake. We can affirm to those seeking the New European Bauhaus that before the 20th century, the spirit and ingenuity of the Bauhaus already existed in 18th-century Lisboa.

The exhibition begins in the Sala do Risco and will be itinerant, circulating to promote debate and the generation of ideas about what a new architectural movement could be in the turbulent start of this second quarter of the 21st century. As in the Bauhaus of Weimar, between the wars, we must seize this critical reflection on the past and present to build the necessary transformation for our vision of the future.
 

Promoters:
CML / Lisboa Ocidental SRU I
Parceiro: Ordem dos Arquitetos

Event integrated in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, also known as the 25th of April.