METALOCUS publishes “Spanish architecture from A to Z at the Lisbon Triennale”, a review by Roberto Alía on the Spanish presence at the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale, taking place from 12 September to 15 December.
The article presents the Triennale as a context of intense cultural activity around architecture, where Spanish production is represented through a wide variety of formats, actions and interventions. From Andrés Jaque to Zuloark, including PKMN, Estudio SIC and Luis Úrculo, METALOCUS highlights a diversity of practices that understand architecture not only as the construction of objects, but also as public action, critical thought, spatial experimentation and civic participation.
Within this framework, the Universal Declaration of Urban Rights appears in the exhibition Real and Other Fictions, at Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, as an infrastructure for collective reflection on rights to the city and citizens’ rights.
METALOCUS points to the project’s open-ended nature as one of its distinctive features: the Declaration is not presented as a finished document, but as something that evolves throughout the exhibition. Every Tuesday at 7:00 pm, the Urban Parliament hosts a parliamentary session led by invited members and open to the public, where visitors contribute to the drafting of one of its articles.
Zuloark’s Parliament thus works as an architecture of trial and error: a space where debate produces form, where the exhibition becomes a process and where the Declaration is written through successive drafts. Rather than representing a finished idea of the city, the project proposes a method to discuss it collectively.
Exhibition: Real and Other Fictions
Venue: Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa, Rua de O Século 79, Bairro Alto, Lisbon
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 3:00-10:00 pm
Parliamentary sessions: Tuesdays, 7:00 pm